The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1918-09-11
RUSSIA has BUMPER
CROPS---STARvING
AMERICAN REFUGEES, In sWED.
EN-, -SAY PEASANTS WONT
SELL-3OVIET FAITH WAVES
FOOD ADMINISTRATIONS Is A
FAILURE. ~ @4 X

Stockholm, Sept, (delayed)
The, American refugees from Moscow
reached Stockholm today, twelve days
after, their departure from, the Bos-
ahevik capital. ss
They were met by Sheldon White
house. the American charge d,Affairs,
and q party Of Americans and Euro
pSaAs, who were anxious "a learn the.
4ot friends and refltfve6sin Russia,
81 8; 1lhmediately after crossf1g into FIN.
land tths Americans. ,wers impressed
by the orderly conditions prevailing. !
~ There was no shooting at the rail-
way stations; the trains were clean
and the car windows not broken and
hoodlums were not breaking down the
passenger and freight trains by ov-
erloading them.
FINNS HAVE FOOD
The Fins near the border have, suf-
ficient food, except flour and sugar.
Conditions improved as the special
railway train approached Tornea, op-
posite the Swedish border and on the
Swedish side orderly conditions were
almost unbelievable for refugees from
Soviet Russia, which is staggering on,
hungry and miserable, toward help
less winter.
u. FLOUR SLIPS A POUND.
z When the Americans left Russia
they say flour sold at S1.25~ a pound
and was seldom obtainable at any
price. Sugar, also. scarce, sold at So
q pound.
The refugees say that starvation
had become So prevalent in Moscow
that late in August the, food commits
sion was forced to remove all regula-
tions on citizens and permit them to
enter the city with sixty pounds Of
food each. ~
; This step, it was asserted, was an
admission Of the absolute failure Of
the food commission which had no
bread and was forced through the
pressure Of the rebelling citizens to
let the people take the food supply in
their own hands.
PEASANTS WON'T SELL,
Wheat and other grains were not
available, as the peasants in the grain
sections still under Soviet control re-
fused to feed the cities. Potatoes and
other vegetables were selling at Is
cents pound. They are the chief
food supply Of Moscow and Petrograd.
The worlmen Of Moscow and Petro.
grad factories cannot obtain food from
the commission, which have advised
them to shoulder ,1~s and take the
grain away from SAINTS. This
advice has seldom needed, as a
majority Of the workmen regard the
peasants as brothers.
FAITH IN SOVIET WANES
Wholesale charges by the Bolshevik
newspapers that the bourgeoisie are
wholly responsible for the food short
age no longer quiet the hungry la
borers, whose faith in the Bolshevki
is waning -appreciably.
The promises Of Leon Trotsky, the
Bolshevik foreign minister, to quell
the Czecho- -Slovak rising and tap the
supply of wheat no longer are gener-
ally credited.
Russia, the refugees say, has a
bumper wheat and rye crop in vir-
tually all the grain sections. Much Of
the grain has already been harvested.
but the. BolshevH have neither the or
ganization nor the transportation IA
cilities to obtain bread for the starv-
ing cities, which scarcity can be ex-
pected to drag through q breadless
winter without turning against gov
eminent whose policy has lost the