Show famine stalks in Petro hams at each eggs 75 cents Cent each are E examples camp les of food scarcity I 1 BRITISH COLONY SUFFERING its members appeal to foreign office to send supplies relatives rob alach other of food london A dispatch to ao tile the london times from petrograd Petro grad says the famine in Petro petrograd grad Is becoming positively alarming there Is practically no food in the markets or in the shops two thirds if not more of tile the latter are permanently closed for want of goods of all kinds besides food stuffs there Is no flour no sugar no potatoes cheese or milk no grain or groats and very little meat all Is under control unless accidentally or priya privately tely obtained the principal necessaries es saries sarles of life have to be got when possible through driendl friends and chance acquaintances at nC enormous cost if you have money to pay for them or as meager rations doled out by the au I 1 les and absolutely inadequate for subsistence the present ration of indigestible black bread halt baked with as much moisture as possible left in it to increase its weight Is one eighth of a pound per day anil and often that Is not forthcoming on account of the hopeless disorder nod and universal chlevin thieving 9 habit rob without compunction relatives and dependents rob one another of food without compunction hunger has no conscience if a morsel of anything Is left on the plate for later consumption it will disappear as soon as you turn your back every tarap crap iino has to be e p put fat under nier lock fock and key after each me meal n I 1 in my own case ahr house committee which receives flout flour from the town authorities for distribution to us tenants could not account for nine boods pounds of flour so that we all had to go without any broad for two days in spite of special commissions and stringent men measures against hoarding and speculation profiteering goes on ton grent great extent among all classe in fact food Is a far more valti valuable able commodity than paper money and secretly circulates In steed of it all conversation indoors and out Is about food and how to get it half the working day Is N wasted aristed in pursuit of sum clent lelent to eat cat As an all illustration of how far disorganization and greed can go I 1 may mention int antion the fact that no fewer than fifteen carloads of rotten hares were recently brought into town and several attempts made to foist them on the municipal executives hut but they were finally rejected and condemned good hares tire are being sold nt at 12 2 10 shillings apiece nef nearly irly 1250 according to the rate of exchange before the war harris hams at each prices of other articles article are quite fabulous hams are offered at 10 ami 00 00 eacle butter costs 42 shillings n pound cheese 8 13 shillings a pound white flour 30 shillings a pound eggs 3 shillings apiece carrots 5 shillings a 1 I pound potatoes 6 shillings a poun pound with the lie exception of occasional limited lm sales most of these articles nn can only he be obtained privately in ili these circumstances the british community in Petro petrograd grad which is now reduced perli perlin aps ps to about persons who are unable for various ren reasons sons to leave russia Ilus sla felt obliged to induce the british consul and the incumbent of of the he church to wire to london for a few edible supplies to help us title tide over tins serious crisis I 1 am bold old that a 1 I telegram to tills this effect has ocen sent to io mhd alio foreign office but so far no assistance stance Is forthcoming we do pot not want luxuries but a few fety cases of crushed oats for some sugar and flour would be at n godsend god send there has been no essential improvement pro of internal affairs here on the contrary tile the situation in many junny respects lini lias been going from bad to worse |