Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-02
RUSSIANS WOULD Be
SAVED FROM MOB
Even German Intervention Would
Be Welcomed if Allies Fail
to Come to Rescue.

Ot0G03. fNuSSEi, Jlibf ~ AN-ofTt-
spondence of The Associated Press If
the entente allies will not intervene, let
the Germans come, is the attitude of the
formerly wealthy and middle classes of
the people of Russia Most Of them here
would frankly welcome foreign inter
ventIon
This feeling has been the greatest
obstacle in any attempt To bring the
Russian internal political revolution out
OF the whirlpool of disorder, according
10 information in the foreign embassies
here
Now that the peasants and workmen
are having their innings the property
classes are beginning to feel the pinch of
denial and even of starvation. experienced
hv the poorer classes in Russia for cen
turicS This is illustrated 10y the ex-
pcriencc OF the bourgeois family IN
whose horne The Associated Press CORE
spondent lives "a paying guest
This family, once one Of the wealthles
IN the NoIogda government owned thou
sands Of acres Of timber land. several
lumber mills. a dozen ships. two glass
factories and more than 1000 acres Of
land
This is what has happened - thoSr
holdings IN the past two months
The lumber land has been declared !,
government monopoly and conilscated
likewise the shipping The glass factories
and lumber mills have been taken over
and are operated by the workmCn The
peasants have taken the land
\ few days ago the city government
soviet imposed special tax on the
capitalistic class The family was as
sesscd ~. 900 ruhlcs
l.-., a. Nov, olNf as 10
are enormous even when figured at the
present IA Q of international exchange
which these Russians don get. because
their money Is old money, invested OF
made when the exchange was two rubles
TO the dollar Compared with old stand
ards Of prices IN Russia. where living was
cheap. the prices now are almost I'M
believable,
White -four cannot bc bought, except
by stealth and in the tlnlest qualities.
The black -four which all use now makes
the blacklist Of bread The poorest
peasants formerly ate something similar
The cost Of this -four formerly was tho
equivalent 81 apout - cents per pood
&c pounds
At present in Nologda each person Is
allowed ; pounds Of this -four month.
enough 10 permit about three thin slices
Of Dread per day But more IS procuraple
through irregular channels The CORE
spondent's host bought a pood Yesterday
for one hundred and fifty rIbles: Just
three hundred times the old price
There is nothing else quite as bad a
this. but. with meat, butter and al ether
foodstufFs the prices are from ten I" fifty
times the old amount Everything i ny
card that is. purchases are limited and
CITY Soviet controlled hut II i quite
possible. if one has enough money. TIP
secure larger quantities by stealth
But the soviet has quite an effcctlv.
way Of controlling Tins underhanded trad
jng-the "obusk .'Ohusk Is Russian
for search 4 dozen OF 50 armed soldiers
and Red Guard swoop down now and then
on the house the correspondent occupies
and confscate the surplus supplies
When to these difficulties are added
confiscation Of bank accounts OF the
wealthy families their plight can te
imagined.