Bisbee daily review., 1919-03-11
CITIZENS NAME STRICKEN CITY
 GRAVEYARD"
Without Disinfectants. Soap. Hot Water and Medicine City Fails to Make Head way Against Disease
Railway Officials Find Dead Bodies of Peasants Heaped Among Crowds Sleeping on Station Floors.

PARIS, March 10 (By the Associated Press) s).-Typhus is adding to the hor- TOTS of hunger and disorder in Mos COW which the population has chris tened the graveyard" according to a British business man who has just ar rived in Paris from Russia. There are no disinfectants or medicines with which the fight the epidemic and no soap Hot water is scarce because of the shortage of fuel and the result is that the freezing and diahesst sned population is unable to protect itself
 Recently railway officials in Mos COW, the business man reports, ordered the crowd out of the central railway station in order to clean it, and found the bodies of five victims of the tS- phus which had been lying for days among the peasants sleeping on the floor. The undertakers are unable to meet the demands upon them and the bOdie of typhus victims await burial for weeks.
 No Heat in Homes
 The winter has been unusually cold in Moscow and there has been no heat in the houses. The Britisher says that the nOn-bOlsheviki population is so un- derfed that it has been unable to re- sist disease. Under the orders of the soviet government the signs of all private concerns have been removed and virtually all remaining stores have been nationalized. but the stocks are so small and incomplete that the clerks make little effort to serve the public. The shops open at 10 o'clock in the morning and close at in the afternoon and by o'clock the streets are dark and deserted.
 The Eritisher says that there ap- pSrently has been a great increase in the number of Chinese troops in Mos COW. He says that the Let's and Chi neSe are the only forces that Lenine and Trotzky regard as loyal He says that Russians of all classes are serv- | ing the soviet government in order | to protect their families and to obtain food, but that the Russian red guards say frankly they will not fight for the bOlsheviki against organized fOrces | from outside Russia.
 Cat Meat on Sale When the Britisher left Moscow, cat and dog meat was selling for five ' rubles a pound and horse meat was ! bringing IS rubles pound. Beef oc ! casionslly was sold secretly by the ! peasants for 2S rubles a pound. But ! ter, when available. brought 150 rubles a pound. A pound of sugar brought | the same sum, but sugar was hard to ! get. Occasionally a little black flour sold in villages distant from Moscow ! Darr q a md Ruble exchange fiuctuates between six and 10 cents.
 Lack of coal and oil and the dilapi- dation of the rolling stock has reduced the number of street cars and railway i trains so that there is terrible crowd ing and congestion at stations, result ing in the spread of disease.
 lenine Is Secure
 ''I wish that the people outside of Russia who insist that the Russian people should arise and overthrow the bolshevih could see the situation" the Britisher concluded. They would ap- preciate how impossible it is to urset Lenine and Trotzky. When armed robbers attack unarmed men the latter have to surrender their purses. It is the same with the bolsheviki be- cause they have all the arms and am intuition.
 Tn my opinion starvation and mis- cry will continue in Moscow and Pet rograd until outside pressure forces a change. because the non-bOlsheviki in nOn-soviet Russia are so starved and harassed that they have neither the heart nor the physical strength for any effective opposition