SOVIET FAILURE.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17117, 12 April 1921, Page 7

SOVIET FAILURE.

CONDITIONS, IN MOSCOW. MISRULE AND INCOMPETENCE. (By Cables-Press Association—-Copyright.) ("Th« urn**.", I/ONDOX, April 10. The Helaingfors correspondent of "The Times" states tthat Moscow is crumbling liko Petrograd under the misrule of the Bolsheviks. The workers aro demanding free trade and a representative Government. The Menshevik Central Committee supports the workers, and declares that tho Soviet is selfdoomed by incompetence, and its fall is only a question of time. The factories are stopping, owing lo fuel shortage. A locomotive factory is making cigarette-lighters instead of engines. The railways are in a state of torpor. Wood houses are being demolished for fuel. Tho hunger is terrible. Shops and markets have been closed, but illegal private trading is proceeding on a most extensive scale, with goods at fabulous prices. Bread is 2MO roubles a lb, butter 18,000, meat 4500, sugar 20,000, boots 2000 roubles a pair, and suits 175,000 roubles each. The storm is expected to burst soon. A PLOT THAT TAILED. BELGRADE, April 10. M. BrashkoVftch, Minister for the Interior, speaking in the Chamber, revealed a plot prepared at the end of 1920 for a Bolshevik upheaval in Jugo-Slavia. It was engineered with money from. Russian and Hungarian Bolsheviks, and agents "were chosen to assassinate Ministers and high officials. The plot was frustrated by energetic Government action..