Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-12
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defeat. Soviet Russia faces the APP
pronchinE winter with the grim
problem of food as it's supreme test
OF power. From the far east to the
FINNISH frontier--i 600 miles of I'M
disputed territory - the Spectcr OF
starvation stalks threatening as the
necessities OF life from people
whose hearts. long sturdy in the
StrugSie Tor a new day" are forced
70 need the demands OF want
The Associated Press corrcspon-
dent, just arrived here. has observed
these conditions In crossing Russia
and Siberia an the way from Vlad-
His arrival in Finland followed de-
portation from Moscow because the
authorit!es had not given advance
In Finnish surroundings, he is en-
ablcd TO send an unccnsorcd account
Oh me straits OF the Russian people
n nSSnfreaiy observed while he and a
trip OF Americans across Russia in
the last two years.
80 EverEwhere in ali this trip. from
one end OF Russia 10 the other, the
cry Tor food and clothing was heard.
II was voiced by the old Russian
p whern ~ type at the Chinese frontier.
brought into Russian territory. 1t
was heard again through the heart
OF RUSSIA, where the crews of loco
MOVES We're clad in ragged gar
cd from the bark of trees
Suckers beg Brcad.
as they stocked their engines they
begged for black bread from the lit
tie group of foreign refugees who
were passengers on the train being
sent from Moscow <to the Finnish
The appeal for the necessities of
living IS universal from the people.
except from the extra rationcd class
"i higher military and civil govern
To Nikolai Lcninc, the Soviet Pres
ident himself. according to the ac-
copied report in Moscow. is attrib-
utcd the statement that the Russian
winter like the last; Even now.
stories are circulated for popular
consuinntion that Lcnine himself is
sHherinE from want Of food because
OF ms inSlStcnce upon sharing the
pIlEht OF the people. The story goes
tnat ne refuses more than his allotted
or a pound daily-which is the ration
Today issued TO the civilian popula,
tion in Moscow.
Attendant upon tho sore plight OF
increasing spirit OF unrest and re-
volt. a military organization. dis
I ,,;n,Hd TO The core. finds a growing
tho mailed fist tactics in which il
has hitherto G,ccn supreme
Soldiers Well Trained.
IRON east TO west. the Bolshcvist
soldiers are militarly trained
throughout and ofilcercd the same as
any other regularly organized army.
controlled by the Soviet political COM
i !, i,. ,hcy stand prepared at all
times 10 'iX FIRMLY upon the people
inc new social system prescribed in
the supreme flats issuing from Mos
COW.
AT the end of tho second wear tb,t
t,he HolShevisis have assumed direc-
ZION or he prolctariat, Russia remains
III the iirin grasp of this military re-
SUhc. IL y the same force which has
beaten hack INVADING foreign armies
on all fronts. the same that has over
come all countcr-rcvolutionary move
mcutS.
The Soviet leaders arc capitaIizinr
thclr victories 10 the utmost They
are insulting into tho minds of the
ncorIc that the Red forces have de-
'cated the worlds armies seeking to
cnsInNc Russia and set up another
form OF Tsarist government Thsv
are urging unon them that the tragic
suucrings and sacrifices will firmly
ESTABLISH national security and spread
the cause of SOCIAL revolution
throughout all lands. In some eases
'tiong the eastern frontier these
pleas fall uDon the unwilling ears of
nc peasant pioneer who looked upon
The FORMER Gear as his little father"
,hCapabic OF wrong doing. and who
believes still that all Russia's troubles
began with the downfall of Nicholas
Sihcria Stripped OF Grain
IN their efforts To avert a rising
hde OF countcr-Sentimcnt, tho leaders
nav" rcSortcd TO stringent methods
siberia. the last great food reserve
to he reclaimed to tho Moscow power
mas been stripped OF grain and manu-
featured goods captured after the
h"lch1k dcbaclc. Supplies have been
transferred To relieve Moscow even
to the point of placing tho siberian
population in need
The rich black soil in Southern
dtuss!a is said this year to have pro-
duccd less than half crop because
OF drouth The Don coal basins are
producing little. despite Denikinc's
rout, noccSSitatinS that railroads and
industries, excepting in the small dis
trIcts OF Siberia. depend upon wood
for fuel. The army is continually
draining tho food stocks. while every
where women, girls and boys are re-
placing men at all forms of labor
Ihc spectacle Of StrinEcncy is com
plct" with hundreds of dormant fac
tory stacks. from the small districts
or lrkutsk and omsk through the
larger industrial ccntcrs of the Orals
10 the great manufacturing diStr
OF MOSCOW. standing as monuments
7 o an industrial structure bearing all
the appearances OF having bruk en-
Gown.
+. Needs Skilled Inborcrs.
Observers on the trans-Russian
Journey commented on tire aspect
Nm. Ia.