Arizona republican., 1919-03-11
RUSSIAN DYING IN
 RAILROAD STATIONS
 WHILE OTHERS SLEEP
Typhus, Unrestrained, Has Pest Hule of Moscow People too Weak to Resist Armed Bolshevikl

PARIS. March 10.-(By the Assoc ated Press)-Typhus is adding to tn, horrors of hunger and disorder il Moscow. which the population ha christened the grave yard" accordln' to a British business man who has jus arrived in Paris from Russia. There are no disinfectants or medicines wlta which to fight the epidemic and no soap. Hot water is scarce because of the shortage of fuel and the result is that the freezing and disheartened pop ulation is unable to protect itself.
 Recently railroad officials in Moscow, the business man reports, ordered the crowd out of the central railway sta ton in order to clean it, and found the bodies of five victims of the typhus which had been lying for days among the peasants sleeping on the floor. The undertakers are unable to meet the de- mands 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 n the houses. The Britisher says that the -bolsheviki population is so un- derfed that it has been unable to resist disease.
 Streets Dark at Six
 
 ernment. the signs Gf all private con- Cerns have been removed and virtually 1 all remaining stores have been nation alized. but the stocks are so small and | incomplete that the clerks make little | effort to serve the public. The shops | open at 10 in the morning and close at | and by o'clock the streets are dark and deserted.
 The Britisher says that there ap- parently has been a great increase in | the number of Chinese troops in Mos COW. He says that the Let's and Chi nesc are the only forces that Lenine and Trotsky regard as loyal. He says l that Russians of all classes are serV- l 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 l bolsheviki against organized forces ! from outside Russia.
 When the Britisher left Moscow, cat and dog meat was selling for five | roubles a pound and horse meat was 1 bringing IS roubles a pound. Beef oc- casionally was sold secretly by the peasants for 2S roubles a pound. But ter, when available, brought 150 roubes a pound. A pound of sugar brought the same sum, but sugar was hard tc get. Occasionally a little black flour sold in villages distant from Moscow and Potrograd for about s2 a pound Roubles exchange fluctuates between six and ten cents.
 Lack of coal and oil and the dilapi dation of the rolling stock has reduced the number of street cars and railroad | trains so that there is terrible crowd ing and congestion at stations, result ing in the spread of disease
 People are Unarmed T wish that people outside of Rus sia who insist that the Russians ir soviet Russia should arise and over. throw the bOlsheviki, could see the req situation said the Britisher. "They would appreciate how impossible it is l to upset Benine and Trotsky. WheT armed robbers attack unarmed men tn, latter have to surrender their purses lt is the same with the bolsheviki. be. cause they have all the arms and am. intuition.
 The scattered groups which hay, opposed the bolsheviki did little nor, than commit suicide. In my opinion starvation and misery will continue il Moscow and Petrograd until outsid, pressure forces a change, because tn, non -bolsheviki in non-soviet Russi; are so starved and harassed that the, have neither the heart nor the physica strength for effectual opposition