The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-11
INCREASES
HORROR IN MOSCOW
No Medicines, No Soap, No Hot
Water to Fight Epidemic
in Bolshevik Capital.
MANY FREEZE TO DEATH
British Visitor Says Russians
Are Too Starved and Ill
to Overthrow Reds.
By tAe Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, March 10.-Typhus is adding
| TO the horrors OF hunger and disorder in
Mcscow. which the population has christ
| ened The Graveyard" according TO
British business man who has just ar
rived In Paris from Russia. There are
no dlsinfectants or medicines with which
to fight the epidemic and no soap. Hot
water is scarce because of the shortage
OF fuel and the result Is that the freez-
| ing and disheartened public Is unable 70
| protect itself.
Recently railway officials in Moscow,
the business man reports, ordered the
crowd out Of the Central Railway sta
ton TO clean It and found the bodies
of five victims Of typhus, which had been
| laying for days among the peasants
sleepiigs on the floor. The undertakers
are unable to meet the demands upon
| them and the bodies of typhus victims
| await burial for weeks.
The winter has been unusually cold In
Moscow and there has been no heat In
the houses The Britisher says that the
| non-Bolshevik population is so under
fed that 1t has been unable to resist dis
, ease
Under the orders of the Soviet Gov
eminent the signs OF all private con-
Germs have been removed and virtually
| all the remaining stores have been ma
| tioralized, but the stocks are so small
and incomplete that the clerks make
little effort to serve the public. The
I shops open at 10 in the morning and
| close at o'clock, and by 8 o'clock the
streets are dark and deserted The So
Wet Government every now and then
| announces that the food supply Is in
| creastnE, but the statements are never
credited. even by the Bolshevikl, be-
cause the Government Is always de-
| creasing the food allowance.
Chinese Troops Loyal 10 Reds
The Brttisher says that there appar-
emily has been a great increase In tho
number Of Chinese troops in Moscow.
| He SAYS that the Let's and Chinese are
the only forces that Lenine and Trotzky
| regard ms loyal He says that Russians
of all classes are serving the Soviet Gov
eminent to protect their families and 70
secure food, but that the Russian Red
Guards say frankly they will not fight
for the Bolshevik against organized
forces from outside Russia.
When tho Britisher left Moscow cat
and dog meat was selling for $3.50 p
pound and horse meat was bringing 80
a pound. Beef coca sonaly was sold
secretly by the peasants for s14 pound
Butte,, when available. brought s75
I ppuuu ~ pOuHu VI DTolknI IQ'
same sum. but sugar was hard 10 get.
Occasionally a little black -four sold In
villages distant from Moscow and Petro-
/ grad for about 50 pound.
! Lack OF coal and oil and the dilapida-
! ton Of the rolling stock has reduced the
number OF street cars and railway trains
! so that there is terrible crowding and
congestion at stations, resulting In the
spread OF disease. The railway trains
are not heated and scores of passengers
/ have frozen to death in Russia this
winter.
stu Worse in Petrograd.
The Rritisher also visited Petrograd
: late in January and says the situation
there was worse than a Moscow. All tho
Russians who went to Petrograd from
small villages and towns have returned
to them, but the city population remain
| Ing is helpless and without friends
Il wish that people outside OF Russia
! who insist that the Russians in Soviet
! Russia should rise anu overthrow the
Bolshevik could see the real situation
/ the Britisher concluded. They would
I appreciate how impossible It is to upset
. Lenine and Trotzky. When armed rob
| bers attack unarmed men, the latter
have to surrender their purses II is the
| same with the Bolsheviki because they
| have all the, arms and ammunition.
THE scattered groups which have
opposed the BolshevilA did little more
! than commit sucide. In my opinion
starvation and misery will continue in
/ Moscow and Petrograd until outside
| pressure forces change. because the
/ non Boshevik in Soviet Russia are no
starved and hars ssed that they have
| neither the heart nor the physical
| strength for effective orera ton
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| CopESHAGEN, March 1o-Four more
! Russian Grand Dukes have been exc
cuted AT Petrograd by the Boleheviki
during the past fortnight on the charge
| OF being involved In a monarchist plot
| according 10 advices to the Berlinskc
| Tiderde.