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Show 1 . ABANDON All 1 1 . X LAW) j Metro?Dolis Becomes Wide Open for First Time 'hr-In 'hr-In Its History FALL FOR PRINCESS H Special Police WiU Be Or-ganized Or-ganized to Stamp Out fl Railroad Thefts H R Pre--.;.) Th!s city ftas become a wide o iwn for the first lime in i i yW WW i u n . Y i pccil I Jk .thin " man, or woman, may devise. IH The bid timer3 of the staid pre-war regime can't recopnize anything but HH the snow. It used to be. before th Jl I war, a sort of country, family1 town, as B .friendly aspect of quiet and, as lh H strictly moral and severe, wilh only Sfl I ropagands f.nd thousands of orders r Y ' j " I rj ' ! ! slept during tho past three years, I'M I Communists add bourgeoise, peasants BB Into the ahyos of frmine. Cabmen aro HH fighting lor higher rates, grain dealers iBK j for more rubles per bushel, makers for nS shop? rue blooming out on ever cor- BUI n r. urine and vodka are sold In millin- BlB er' shops and the SO policemen of the town have long since quit bothering H El ' ? The lid is off. K' CAN'T PREVENT LOVE. S MOSCOV Communism and - I aristocracy are antagonistic in Russia Bf fl but tlv :;! th. Individual com- ) M mnnist may still entertRln kindly feel Hfl ing oward persons once prominent in cheka arretted a princess the other During a star chamber invesliga-' tlon in which the princess was .kept four days without food, a favorite method of the cheka. the agent learn- R cd that the princess was able to main- Hfl were supplying her wiih food. HH "I can't keep men from falling in I love-wits confessed the princes H -9 "and in these Cases on.' man rnrninhnH KL. M me with meat, another arith sugar and i v. ith I t- Thi y jut 1 1 .1 on making thi pre sent a o me v" h K ol ll ing whal I i d ih- soviet ni- n.- nu- r n BaM free. I let them keep it up." As the cheka knows how to keep a s.-c ret, ji a keeping this one from th I j three communists. tpSg SHIPMENTS PILFERED. 0 b 4. Thel i goods . from Russian railways are so eten I slve that M. DJerJinsky. the Polo who jH now directs the railwaj admlnistra- i JIB n'on. Hi -t v. ill be necessary LaHI to establish a Bpecial police force to stamp it out. DJerjinsky first came BlWii into international notice through his Klin direction of the counter-revolutionary aWufl organization known as the cheka dur- fl 'fl Ing the red terror period in the sum- 9 g mer of 1918. He recently denounced the railway lufl speculators ;ind traffick I Jtm i w ho should be Jailed However, it difficult to understand how the rail road men can be expected' to work without stealing for trainmen have jfl told the correspondent that their pay amounted to only 5000 soviet rubles a month. This is equivalent to 20 IH ; American cents, less than the price of LkLl a sincrle pound of black bread ifl The American relief administration is protected against thoft by special guards and the bolshevist government makes good all losses of American roodstuffs Bur even tho knowledge nH that detection probably will mean death has not prevented thieves fron. -ti ;iim American supplies 1 PEOPLE RAISE OUTCRY. LB no- railway administration asked B for 619.000.000 gold rubles for main- flH tenaace of transportation in 1922. but aK the goi ernmt nt allowed only 18,000.- II M 000 In the budget. However, 11 includ- It JR eu a provision that every department of the government shall pay for haul- HH ting its freight. H I Soviet Russia now has 900.000 rail-way rail-way employes and the Ukrainian re- H public 289,000 Great reductions in their numbers have been made be- MB cause of the inabilit of the good com- ra to prov ide food for more h, H fact the are unable to supply what all the food promised to the reduced fl personnel. There is a great cry in Russia that the railways be put on a paying bask-.. |