The Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 191?-19??, 1919-10-15

It.|'fl n rNiIWtAAN tAiN l7t't ttvN VI At4-
inAa ltsints IS desperate.
Tie Nlcaolas railway has been en-
slrcly taken over for evacuation and
etller military purposes. Passenger
..afie has becH abolished; therefore
ankmen are unable to Import the
seanty but essential contrabmad for
nerly received in Petrograd
The following were the prices ruling
last week: Butter, 20 rubles (Sl2.50)
!. 1cund; bread, As to so rubles (s2S.13-
s3l.75); potatoes, 20 (S12.5oD meat,
90 to 100 rubles ($56.25-$6250) slgar,
len mid coffee are unobtainabe; 100
cigarettes cost $50 rubles (S93.75).
Many so-called social living rooms, 9th
erwise municipal soup kitchens, have
closed for want of provisions. Those
open give only Stops; people 90 about
al3iost in rags.
1t is estimated that 10000 rubles
(normany s75,OO0) monthly Is re-
quired to support life per head. Work
is unobtainable and the Intelligent
have burned their rsmaln,ng furniture
for cooking. Probably not above 4,0O0
OF the civil population remain. Pecu-
lation and corruption on the part OF
the bolsheyists are unabated. Recent
ly great quantity of clothing and
boots which were collected together on
the pretext that they were for the cen
trail store, was destroyed by fire.
It Is suspected to have been incen-
dIarism covering traces OF large defal-
cations.
Situation Growing Worse.
The following shows how much
worse the situation has grown:
A month ago the theaters and cine
mas were full despite the fact that
seats In the latter cost TO rublcs ($1O.
Now this last fiction of cultured life
has given out and the public in terror
Of arrests and perquisitlons have de-
serted the theater, preferrlng anxious
and undisturbed solitude.
AS a result of bOlshevist tyranny In
the country an entirely new banditti
uufc uppCulSu' Aut DOlSHSNioto hiODA-
llzcd all the young peasants. but
large number deserving haye formed
rowing bands inhabiting the woods,
living by robbery and falling on par
ties of soldiers, farmers and villages.
! Under an elected "RObln Hood" these
bands are taking the place of the for
mer peasant revolts and are known as
1 the. green army. They are veritable
thorn IN the side of the bOlshevists and
are reminiscent of the activities of the
: little Russian guidemaki, with whom
! they have similarity in that they kill
! all communists mercilesslY.
The bolsheviSts still rely largely on
sailors to restore the weak places in
| the front, bribing them with enormous
pay and privileges. The sailors are
covered with diamonds and pearls.
But, according to secret telegram re-
ceived in Petrograd from the propa-
gnnda section in Moscow, a consider
able force of German communists
shortly is expected also a party OF
] Hungarian officers with the object Of
forming battalion Of Let's and Chin
Csc partly for the Finnish front.
There is reason to believe the Ger
mans are repeating the offer made to
Admiral Kolchak at the beginning of
the year, which he Loyalty rejected and
will again undoubtedly reject, but the
Russian peasants tortured under the
bolsheyist heel may be unable to con-
troll their desperate impotence. Their
cry is "Save us or let another save us"
Europe's future depends on our re-
Spouse to their applications.