CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 48, 20 November 1920, Page 9

CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA

DANISH REFUGEES' STORY. A party of forty-six Danes who had been interned for a long time in Russia have succeeded' in escaping, and have arr rivod in- Copenhagen. Their lender, Jlr. Thorganrd, in an interview with flic correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph," says tlio Bolsheviks are now doing everything to prevent foreigners leaving Russia, and that the situation is growing worso daily. The terrorism is frightful. People who stay in the streets for two mi mites after midnight nre arrested and get no food for tho iiexf three days. . The population arc allowed 300 grammes (about Una.) of bread and some soup of oats and water, as ordered by law, and must not eat any other things. This, however, is in reality, impossible owing to the prices. This 15oz. of bread cost fiflfl roubles, 'Iho same amount of butter 800 roubles, 15oz. of salt 1700 roubles, an apple 300 roubles, nml a little piece of sweet 3110-roubles. A pair of old trousers is valued at 75,000 roubles, and a pair of old slopes at l!i"),000 roubles. But (lie Communists lack lioTliing; they have plenty of food, elothes. and money. All tlio shops in Pclrograd are dosed and empty. Nobody goes lo work, and although there nre eiiarmous forests around Petrograd nobody will chop wood, and everywhere in the city.thara is tho greatest ecircity of fuel, ' ' i