The sun., 1917-06-20
DISORDER GROWS
ALL OYER RUSSIA
Strikes and Anarchy Spread
ing and Bankruptcy Of
Nation Is Feared.
10000 IDLE IN CAPITAL
Soldiers in Finland Reported
Doing as They Please
Ruble Worth 20 Cents.
by JAMES o,poNNELL BENNETT.

Special Gable Despatch.
STOCKHOLM, via London. June ia
From authentic sources in Petrograd
comes the story Of Minister OF War
Kerensky's struggles with the enormous
governmental problems In the face OF
his physical disabilities. Often he is
carried on q litter to transact public
business. At other times he braces him
self and addresses the great assemblages
with blazing fsrvor until he suddenly
fainta
This" the observer says. produces
a terrific emotional effect on the sensi-
tive Russian heart, but the people are
asking something else-namely bread
and peace"
Strikes and plundering are spreading
throughout the land. In Finland the
soldiers are doing as they like. The
rich people In Moscow and Petrograd
are afraid to move to their country seats
because these often are attacked by
plunderers.
Forty thousand workmen are idle In
Petrograd. and it is prophesied the num-
ber will reach 100000 in fortnight.
Bankruptcy Predicted.
The paper ruble has sunk to 20 cents
in our money. Swedish agents Just re-
turned from Russia warn the Swedes
against credit business In Russia, de-
claring that the threatened counter revo-
luton will be followed by anarchy and
bankruptcy. Nobody will accept the
post of Minister of Commerce.
A Swedish observer. whose name l am
| not allowed to publish, says: "kerensky
| is doing his utmost, but what Russia re-
quires is the will of a giant who can do
the impossible and organize with the
| grace of God. for organized graft is
perhaps the only organization Russia
has got"
The Minister OF Communications, Mr..
Nekrasov, says. 1.-THE position is ex-
tremely difficult and the most menacing
| hour OF the Russian revolution Is near.
| Russia has reached the turning point.
During the next few weeks the fate Of
Russia must be decided. II the country
will not assist the Government and CO.
operate with 1t In reestablishing order l
see no way out Of the situation"
Prdtrada, the Petrograd newspaper
| recently established by the Socialist ma
jority. says. Economic conditions are
dissolved. The old order is in ruins and
the new not yet established. II this
| continues we shall have neither bread.
boots, fuel. railway traffic. metals nor
| credit. One town will war with the next
only for one extra wagon of grain and
one county Gill have to fight its neigh
Dor about cargo OF coal or petroleum.
In order TO avoid destruction a new
order must be erected.
| Plenty of Resources.
The old economic system has been de-
stroyed by Czarists and ghouls behind
| IA hi ha IL
ing powers and resources such that 1t
need not want for any of life's neces-
| stiles. Economic arrangements being
| solely In the hands of capitalists and
great landowners. they think only with
a view to their own profit. They are
sending workingmen and products from
one place to another in order to get
profits from them and increase their own
power This system is creating bank
| ruptcy.
I'm order to save the lives OF millions
we must now look forward to new
order OF things. The people must take
care of their own economic resources
and use them to the best advantage"
A neutral and trustworthy observer
| lately returned from Petrograd makes
the following written statement:
The great country Of Russia Is being
carried blindly to It's fate. Confusion is
gliding into chaos Russia faces a sec
ond revolution. greater than the first.
| 1t will be the forerunner of the tragedy
OF the Russians falling asunder. The
situations may be described as hopeless.
Unhappy conditions are piling on
each other and the Government, whose
good will nobody doubts, staggers under
the burden II carries. 1t cannot meet
the great problem facing all Europe,
which is the food problem. Transport
difficulties make all their efforts vain.
No Hope of Victory.
Long rows of empty cars stand or
side tracks, but efforts TO restore them &c
traffic are frutless. There are great
stores OF coal to be moved II the cars
could be used. In Finland all the rail-
ways are firing with wood. The Coy
ernment tries to prevent factories clos
ing, but the owners evade this by as
| signing the factories to the working men
who promptly fnil as they lack capita
The Government itself has closed many
OF the ammunition factories for lack OF
raw materials and money, Sixty thou
sand Cossacks have been sent into Fin
land to support the Government, which
rests really on the power OF the Cossack,
and Tscherkekes
The question is, What do the peopl,
think about war; The answer is
Nothing They have no hope of vic
tory"
Modifying the foregoing is a state
ment issued in Stockholm yesterday b,
the French Minister of Munitions, Alber
, Thomas, recently on a mission to Russia
THE present Russian situation he says
"obliges me to speak with the creates
discretion and reserve, but ! consider /
much improved, though in some respect
!, II Is precarious. The revolution is safe
, Remember. no revolution ever has beel
, carried through without such opposition
as the Kronstadt affair. The Lenin
!, movement has reached Its elimination
. There are difficulties to overcome. but
: believe In the possibility Of anothe
offensive.
r THE Austrian peace delegation OF Off
r GERS was a bluff All were imprisoned Il
Y Kishlneff as spies and never reache
. Petrograd. The German propaganda 4
l. Russia Is active. II 1t existed In Franc
$ l should favor the strongest measures t
put It down.
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