ANARCHY IN RUSSIA.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 18 December 1917, Page 3

ANARCHY IN RUSSIA.

Many Outrages Reported. Americans Fear Famine. [ELKi-TitlO TELKOitAI'H — COI'YJUCSIiT.j /i'iiil PltKcifcS ASSOCIATION. I deceived This Day 11.-10 a.lll. London, Dec. IT. The Daily Chronicle's Peirograd correspondent reports that the Leninist decree ordering the n>jolilion of officers came in force on December 15. Practically all the officers were degraded and many assaulted. Their medals and epaulettes were torn off and they were subjected to every insult wherein German spies eiicour-' aged the soldiers. Colonels were forced to exchange work with their own. orderlies. Other officers were forced to clean stables. The Daily News's Petrograd correspondent says flic latest returns in the Assembly election show that 148 social revolutionaries and TS Bolsheviks have been elected. Every day brings more outrages and confiscations by the Leninists. The contents of TOO wine vaults in Pet.rogr.ul were destroyed. They were valued at millions of roubles. Pools of wine were formed in some-of the streets which the people bailed into anything- handy. c Ncav York, Dec. IT. The. United Press correspondent at Tokio .states the conditions i ; i I'ussia are becoming intolerable. There is increasing evidence that famine is approaching. •The American Ambassador at Petrograd has advised all Americans to leave the capital.