The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-06
PETROGRAD RULED
BY SILENT TERROR
Houses Under Guard, While
All who Fail 70 Answer
Questions Are Slain.
FABULOUS FOOD PRICES
Women Shot When Husbands
Are Suspected Of Counter
Revolt Plans.
nv JOHN POLLOCK.


s,,ciq, Gable DespatcA to THE sus from, the
London Times Service.
urtsIsGFoRs, June 25 (delayeD Ut
ia hardly possible TO recognize Petrosrad
to-day owing to the terrible changes
within a month. Terror has so Increased
,ba, nobody speaks in the streets. trains.
~ public places People regard one
another suspiciously, fearing informers.
soldiers especially avoid speaking to one
another, proving the prevalence or pro-
,ocateurs OF the Red Army.
Social life to all intents has ceased.
7, every house there Is only one entry,
either the front or back door being con-
stantly shut. AT whichever open emo
a communist sentry Ia posted. he oe-
rands of all newcomers first their loen-
,,tv PAPERS, also their right to walk In
the street, and then questions them as
IN whom they are going to see, who
lives in the family, what they do, what
10 the business of the visitor.
II the answer is satisfactory the visi-
tors pass in IL unsatisfactory they are
crested. taken to the commissariat ana
thence to the fortress of Peter and PAU,
whore generally they are shot without
question. The recent executions carried
ont Mt Peter and Paul are no longer III
one. and twos, but in whole groups by
hooies are mostly thrown into the Neva.
Sometimes they arc f1shed out by mill
,iemen The militia now is armed with
ola fashioned carbines. All rifles sent
IN the front also are reduced In numbers.
Passes Needed After II.
After II o'clock none may leave the
nousa without a pass signed by Peters
and only given to conciliar workers on
riybt business and agents of the extraor-
binary commission, who form the sole
night traffic in motor lorries conducting
DrrnuisltIons. These are 80 thorough
that ~ arms. even in a holster, are found
concealed in garnet or court, the presi-
dant Of the house commAtee Is shot. the
Informant knows a case where whole
FAMILY was shot because field glass
case was found in a fiat The universal
terror makes the people repulse vlsltors
oven when bearing help or letter, tear-
inc ia he compromised on counter revo
lut!onary denunciations. JakoVieva, tne
notorious murderess, chief OF the
extra ordinary commission, has gone 10
Moscow and has been replaced by an
individual bearing the alias the bear
In the army all officers without farni-
lies are dismissed from the higher COM
mands and sent to the rear. They are
replaced by men whose families have
been taken hostages. The wives ana
families of officers are Kept in speciai
concentration camps near MOSCOW.
whittier they were despatched last week.
Many women have been shot when
their husbands were suspected Of coun-
ter revolution. The officers are all dis
armed except those known to be COM
munist party workers. Soldiers have
the right to shoot officers on the bare
Of counter revolution,
The immediate cause for the increase
in terror is the abortive movement at
KrasnaMgora, engaging Bolshevists and
inspiring them to devote all their efforts
to outroot the White organizations In
Petrograd.
Among officers and workmen the Boil
shevists are taking the opportunity &c
arrest all foreigners remaining II
Peuograd, including women.
Allies Seem Powerless.
There is terrible disillusion in Petro-
grad with the Allies, who seem only &c
threaten and unable to deal seriou!
stroke thus affording the thousands Of
patriots to be slaughtered and infitcting
mental torture. a month ago the uni
versal question In Petrograd was Wi
the Allies give food II they take tbs
city Now the question Of food hat
ceased TO interest. though starvation Il
at hand. THE only question is: win
the Allies come quickly? II not ther
let item give over altogether. The pres
ent state is unbcarable. 1t is better T.
die quietly of starvation than thus b
bounded to death.
Owing 10 similar cause peasant ris
ings. common as winter throughout tn
country. now are seldom. Owing TO thu
frequency with which the peasant
joined the Whites, who afterward re
treated. all the peasant families wei.
slaughtered simultaneously.
Following the feverish efforts on tn
part OF the Bolshevists to prepar
against he surrender Of Petrograd O
the eleventh, as previously telegraphet
the civil evacuation was completed b
tae twenty second. All received ma
tcral at the factories and militar
stores Of secondary Importance wer
evacuated and all telephone commute
tors dispatched to Moscow. but on IN
nineteenth an order came from Mosco'
70 evacuate only parts OF the ma
chinery, not the benches and permaner
fittings reducing the extent of the wor
Of the CHIEF commissary. A line Of train
IS ready Instantly to flee to the Vo!g
towns.
secret AEitators Busy.
phalanx of picked agitators ha
been brought to Petrograd for secr'
/ propaganda against the patriotic Rus
| sian government II the capital
abandoned Meanwhile the position
the civil inhabitants is desperate.
The Nicholas railway has been er
u tircly taken over for evacuation an
other military purposes. Passens'
traf'in has been abolished Thereon
sackmen are unable to import u
sctuty but essential contraband 10
merry received in Petrograd.
The following were the prices RUIN
last week: Butter, 90 rublcs Hl2.5O)
pound bread, AS TO 80 rubles CS2s. l.
i3l.i5D potatoes 90 rubles 'Sl2oV
meat. 30 20 100 rubles f56.25-S62.6O)
sugar. tea and coffee are unootainapiS
one hundred cigarettes cost 100 rupi'
(s55.25). Many so-called social hVir
rooms otherwise municipal sou
Kitchens, have closed for want OF pr
visions Those open give only Stops
people 20 about almost in rags
II is estimated that 10000 rubl'
normally s75.Oo0) monthly is require
to support life per head. Work Is I'll
obtaiuable and the intelligent nav
brunei their remaining furniture Il
cooking Probably not above 1000
the civil population remain. Pecuiauo
and corruption on the part OF the 30
sherists are undated. Recently gree
quantity % clothing and boots whi'
was collected together on the pretel
that they we're for the central store SOC
Was destroyed by fire.
II is suspected to have been incel
diarlSm covering traces of large defa