Show soviet russia on last legs reports prom from many sources indicate early collapse of bolshevism EMPIRES SUPPLIES USED UP industries unable to meet country requirements ts broken belka Riel railroads mads complete disintegration of authority washington X soviet 11 russia ailt Is on 0 ane me eve of collapse ile in W the opinion of mud the best informed and diplomats in IN the best beat con has in dilated for some time that the soviet lenders were confronted by such auch a failure of their rich economic and rd social evil experiment e ariment as probably to tiring bring about the downfall of the leoane regime III this 1 icar 11 ow it 11 seems probable that let 1 the I 1 cottons collapse will come ment even sooner C col 1 edward IV 11 ryan a report fr i north st after a visit to that part ot of the countr with tile he Est leath honian union von peace mission the tant soviet rd russia will not be able to hold bold out tor for six alt mouth months Is in considered both important and sh alg billeted by high official h here colonel clariel ryan ability as an ob observer erver of 0 rus bus blan 1 conditions 1 1 Is well noll he known we to ilme tion c chats I 1 and they y do not believe he has a overdrawn ell mor comila co conditions mild as they loril I 1 in nes a hi other reliable liable reports e reach much ing big washington through official or dip lo mentle clum channels nelY during thu the lust last fe few das indicate that the thin soviet t govern ment of russia 1 Is no a longer larger able by an outward manifestation of strength to ro concen conceal I 1 a general disintegration gheral which ilea has been steadily tah taking pla place a wit within b in the bb bolshevist alt a organization ajom I 1 axom a neutral government In forem tie tion be baa reached washington that con clat in III petrograd Petro prad grad are am extremely bad in every respect p 1 in well eon Iti informed formed qu quarters em here the belief ex exists late that the sov mic act t regime is weaker eaker at present than at any time ence bince I 1 the a summer of 1918 it has been sin stated led by at least one mn malimit limit I 1 in I 1 mn conversant eunit with fill russian of at fairs fair who be giai been biall convinced ed of the permanent establishment of the bolshevist mulet minority rIty unit that the or present I 1 reports paris difre so an radically from bously ly rO received lOd as to indicate a ability that within 1 six months until ill the soviet alty power BS as tt it exists today will be a thing of the past dago D tin teg ration confessed A marked tendency toward gration vr within 1 tile the soviet state clear charac reent recently ly published poll by the bolshevist bolh evist leai lri with particular ri fo ference relice to lo tile the economic amile situation 1 in russia tile the reports were not intend ed tor for publication abroad these re ports commented upon pon tile lie critical jia he lure hire of 1 the ec economic ordle situation with nith sov let bt real the dene demoralization li tion ut of transport facilities and I 1 the he inability of the devitalized soviet arlet industries to utilize t men een such raw materials as 11 re could d be obtained and ad I 1 to the facto olos tile the bolshevist at in leaders cis in these same ponts as alio gmt attention to the existence ilmi of an rule acute labor all shortage omego in ii with a note noia bly slack demand for labor beemon because of the reduced industrial production A all three ot of the documents said that russian russia hol industry we mas falling far short ot of acting the country 8 most meagre requirements and that there appeared p to be no available liable means ot of remedying tills this situation attention it ans s stated that ru rus sia is had been living on supplies left over from the period ot at the gov emment these supplies I 1 etere ere rapidly inning heing exhausted and bolshevist indus try v one as incapable of replenishing them the reports maintained that the situation would not be improved by the lifting of the blo blockade kade and the resumption ot of international trend trad 11 ing since 1 russia evell could only allu purchase hll materials from abroad with raw mo ma a terlula of lines russian dehol origin and rd the these could be neither either produced 1 in sufficient quantity nor DOF transported by the rus rua sin railways to where they would be med needed ell site similar d r cli critical conditions were note stated to exist in the matter of thet fuel and food supply ft t th a to resultant itt rig growing discontent amone the people corroboration of colonel ryan I 1 he report of at colonel edward W R ran red to rosa for far north russia and ad the halite baltic states state transmitted through red cross 1 cann I n vc uela mel and published n few d das ago a 1 if 1 regarded e got it id aa 11 significant 1 in official circles circle in the that it confirms confirm st what the amlet rep reports rt had bad indicated colonel rian visited soviet rl russia with h the Esth onlan ach peace delegation and ad his bia akst firsthand bond observations 1 confirmed M P pre res tons advices advises and oil show w how ch rapidly illy the and untenable enable economic 1 mintle conditions condition 1 in russia are am resulting in it a disinter tie alon of the orgain that through neutral countries the state department 1 hag I r rhod received hod ou of many of the point cointa in ought a out ut la in colonel rvan event s report advices advises through official el have ahrn lately that the the be soviet or gul dation he has at no time rom been co able his successfully to named extend its ita mith authority fit with any completeness abito into the rural district even eren of central tr road russia ita it control in the cities tile end and the industrial centers to he haa it been con complete nod ad this control 1 la said to have ca extended tended along the rallay railway lines from point 1 I I 1 to polar point it 11 he has not at he however e according 11 din dedIn to the reports exten extended into to the rural districts further on tile the average the than three miles on an either the aid slap of the rail fail way ay line |