Show famine stalks in petrograd Petr Petro orad grad hams at each eggs 75 cents each are examples of food scarcity BRITISH COLONY SUFFERING r its members appeal to foreign office to send supplies relatives rob each other of food london A dispatch to the london times from petrograd Petro grad says the famine in petrograd Petro grad Is becoming positively alarming there in 1 practically no food in the markets or in the shops two thirds it if not more of the latter are permanently closed for want of goods of all kinds hinds 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 tinder control unless accidentally or privately obtained the principal necessaries es of life have to be got when possible through friends and cliance chance acquaintances tit at enormous cost it ir you have money to pay for them or as meager rations doled out by tile the au all les and absolutely inadequate for subsistence the present ration of 0 indigestible black bread half baked with ns as much moisture as possible left in ato it to increase its weight Is one eighth of a pound per day and often that Is not forthcoming on account of the hopeless disorder and universal thieving 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 ns as you turn your back livery every scrap has to be put under tinder lock and key after each meal in my own case the house committee which receives flour fligl from the town authorities for distribution to us tenants could not account for nine boods pounds of flour so that we fillhard all fill had to go without any bread tor for two days in spite of special commissions and stringent gerit measures against ho hoarden ard ardin ng ind and speculation 1 0 n profiteering goes on to a great extent among till all clas classes seq in fact food Is it a far more valuable abl commodity than paper money tind and secretly circulates instead dinstell a of it all conversation indoors and out Is about food land and how to get it half tile the day Is Nn wasted steil in pursuit of sufficient clent to eat cat As an illustration of how far disorganization it and n nd greed can go I 1 may mention the lie fact that no fewer than fifteen carloads carload of rotten hares were recently brought into town and several attempts made to foist them on the municipal executives but they were finally rejected and condemned good hares arc being soli sold tit at 12 2 lo 10 shillings apiece nearly 1250 according to to the hie rate of exchange before the war hams at each prices of other articles are quite fabulous hams fire offered at EIO E IO 10 and 00 each butter costs 42 shillings a pound cheese 3 shillings a pound po i nd tt bilto flour GO 0 shillings a 11 pound egg i 3 shillings apiece carrots 5 shillings s it pound potatoes 6 shillings a pound with th the exception of occasional limited sales most or of these articles can only be obtained privately in these circumstances the ariti li ut unity in petrograd Potro Petro grad which Is now reduced perhaps Perli liPs to about persons nho ho are unable Il lable for vailous reasons to leave alussia felt obliged to induce tile hie british consul and the incumbent of t tile the glish church to wire to lon don tor for a few edible supplies to blip us Is title tide over tills this serious not crisis I 1 am oil old that a telegram to tills effect tills has ocen sent to the foreign office but so far no assistance Is forthcoming we do not want luxuries hut but a few cases of crus cru crushed lied hed oats for example sime sugar margarine and flour mould bould be a godsend god goa send there hita been no essen tini i improvement imp p pro 1 0 of internal affairs here on the hie contrary the situation in in nv nr respects has been golub from lim to 0 o borree I 1 |