RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1919, Page 3

RUSSIAN MIX-UP.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) CHEAPEST THING IN RUSSIA. - IS'HUMAN LIFE. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) VANCOUVER, Nov. 17. • British troops returning from Russia v have arrived. Professor Bray, an English professor for thirty years in Russia, two years of yWch were under the regime of the Bolsheviks, who sentenced him to death, interviewed, stated the conditions in Russia were appalling and it is impossible to exaggerate them. Life was the cheapest thing in thfc country and terrorism . resigned everywhere. PETROGRAD’S GLOOM. (Received This Day af 1.5. p.m.) HELSINGFORS, Nov. 15. A deathlike stillnesSl broods over Petrograd. A correspondent says a competent observer who escaped on the 11th. November relates how a few inhabitants are to be seen hurrying,

phantomlike, through the streets, most ly putty-faced women and children with occassionally am old man. These preIP sent pictures of the deepest despair. The arrival of the frost dealt the last blow to the vanishing hopes of relief. The mercenaries imported a virulent variety of typhus and thousands of starved, -weakened people are dying daily. The latest prices of food include bread at 350 roubles per pound; butter 1800, horse flesh 500. Other flesh, believed be human 100, herrings 80, coffee, ™ sugar, 'and clothes are unobtainable. Red Commissaries live luxuriously, their women being covered with furs and diamonds, and attend entertainments amidst-the city’s tragedy. r