INTERNAL RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1921, Page 3

INTERNAL RUSSIA.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. OAIU.B ASSOGIATION STARVATION IN RUSSIA. J.ONDON. October ». A special correspondent of the Chicago "Tribune” in Moscow, writes a moving description ot the frantic stampede of famine strickop refugees into the Caucasus and Turkestan, which is now seriously infected with disease. Turkestan crops are good, but the penniless refugees are unable to purchase food. The correspondent visited several hospitals and found the mortalits among typhoid and cholera patients more than fifty per cent. A thousand hospitals are organised between Astrakhan and Samara, in nearly all ot which patients were dying daily who could V>c saved, if fed. The doctors themselves were ill, because they were living on the same rations as the patients. The latter though barely able to walk, are trying to escape from the hospitals, in order to beg.

FUTURE OK RUSSIA

LONDON, Oct. a \| Maxim Oorkv, interviewed Dy Die “Daily News,”'declared that Cominiiiiisiu would pass away in Russia, giving birth to a sort of Socialist Republic; or even to a Democratic Republic, similar to that of the t inted States. Rut, he said, the vast experiment that is now being made in I Russia would have an enormous influence upon the position of the pioletariat. There was no chance whatever of a return of the Tsarist regime. The people largely supported the Communist Government, ! avalise there was no alternative at picsent. It was possible, if the Soviet tell, that f. complete chaos would ensue. The opposition shown by the peasants, he said, was too great lor the success of Communism. The vast mass of the Russian peasantry were a harrier to all progress. They were l>' llt<ll debased, and hardly human, there was a complete cleavage between Die country and the towns. Only the In--1 tellectiials could save Russia. M Gorkv said lie had been great!', V impressed ‘ with the British trade agUment with Russia, wherein.... he expected greatMdiings^^^^^