MR. WELLS ON RUSSIA.
NO ALTERNATIVE TO SOVIET. London, Oct. 29. Mr. H. G. Wells' impressions of the wrecked Empire of Russia makes interesting reading. He gives a fine picture of death-still Petrograd, once the brightest capital of Europe, and now a city without shops. "The streets are not like Bond Street or Piccadilly on Sunday," says Mr. Wells, "with the blinds of the shops neatly drawn down for a decorous sleep, re-awakening on Monday, for these shops will never open again. They are dead, and utterly wretched, and have an abandoned look.
"The paint is peeling off, the windows are cracked and broken, or boarded up and covered with notices. Perhaps the ystill display a few flyblown relics, but the fixtures are covered with two years' dust." Mr. Wells sees no alternative to the Bolsheviks. If their power were withdrawn Russia would fall, into anarchy. He denies, however, that they are waging a war of extermination against the intellectuals. The only dinner he attended while in Russia was given by Feodcr Chapiapin, the famous opera singer.
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1920, Page 3
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177MR. WELLS ON RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1920, Page 3
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