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GHASTLY FAILURE OF SOVIET RULE TOLD IN REPORT
High Red Cross Officer Finds BoIshevism Social Adventure Become a Hor- rible Failure = Govern ment Hopeless - All Now Poor
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 WASHINGTON. May 1S-The Rus adventure become a ghastly failure" according to Col. Edward R. Ryan, Red Cross commissioner for North Russia and the Baltic states.
 Colonel Ryan is just back from a. surreptitious visit into Russia with the Esthonian peace delegation and in a report received by the state depart, ment, he declared Russa cannot hold out six months without aid from abroad.
 Ryan left RevaI on March g. travel ing as private citizen with the Estho- nian mission. He spent the following day in Petrograd, arriving in Moscow March 26, returning to Reval, April 2. His report was communicated to RoD- ert E. Olds, Red Cross commissioners for Europe, and forwarded here.
 Colonel Ryan visited hospital schools, churches and theaters and observed in tirnately a community life which he described as so hopeless as to have reduced even himself in the 10 days spent amidst it, to despair.
 Soviet Government Hopeless
 The government was "clearly hope less Colonel Ryan said, and all gov ernment officials admitted the trans portation problem would eventually re-
  regime unless help came from the out side.
 Lacking outside aid, revolution Is expected within six months, when trouble Of the worst kind must be faced the report said. continuing:
 'sThe general belief is that it will start with a gigantic pogrom and the best that is hoped for is that from the wefter and middle class inte1igencia may emerge At no time, he said. was he permitted to make any dependent investigation. Except when he was asleep he was not alone for moment He saw, according to an explanation of Colonel Olds, what "his guides saw fit to show hlm." and was unable to Jake notes.
 Moscow and Petrograd Filthy
 Both Moscow and Petrograd were '.indescribably filthy in appearance,' Colonel Ryan said The streets he was informed, had noy been cleared for four years and were at least ankle deep in most places knee deep, in dirt. Only parE of Moscow is supplied with water. few electric lights were visible , and there was no coal and little wood, with the result that everybody was cold he said
 Meat on sale was mostly horse neat and the whole population seemed engaged in the effort to obtain food enough to sustain life.
 A daily bread ration of one pound is prescribed, but in reality had beer reduced to one-quarter of a pound.
 Tn a conversation with SymoslSow minister of public health, Colonel Ryar inquired whether there had been any attempt to classify and register the poor.
 There are no poor Symoslzow re- piled Tn Russia all are equal and ir the same class"
 "A Disorace 4o Re rIaanv
 Inhabitants of Moscow are so poorly clad that lone gets the impression thas it is regarded as a disgre-@ to be clear or neatly attired." the report said.
 Of the hospitals visited, 75 per cen of the personnel of one was said tt have died in the preceding three months Medical supplies were totally lacking, including rubber goods anC heart stimulants, and surgical instru ments and anaesthetics were absent.
 Schools apparently were in operation and it was stated that e'in general, tn, children are being cared for next afte the red army" Churches also wer, open and appeared ito be doing a goot businesss Picture galleries were opei and kept up as they were before tn, war
 At the theaters. which have beel taken over by the state and opened [, the public without fee Colonel Ryal stated he attended presentations 0 The Bride of the Emperor" Chalopii in "The Barbef Shop of Seville" and ballet. '.The Sleeping Princess"
 sWomen," he said, presented a dole fuf appearance everywhere" Colone Ryan declared he saw no attractiv looking women during the entire cours of his Stay.'