The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-12
RUSSIA FACES
HUNGRY WINTER
Flushed With Success Over Po-
land, Soviets Are in Trouble
at Home.
FOOD AND FUEL SCARCE
Red Army Forces Peasants to
Accept Dominion of Trotsky
and Lenine Regime.
FOOD AND FUEL SCARCE
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fBy Associated Press.l

Viborg, Finland, Russian Frontier,
Aug. 11.-Flushed with success and
confident of Poland's defeat, soviet
Russia faces the approaching winter
with the grim problem of food as its
supreme test OF power From the Far
East to the Finnish frontier. 900
miles of undisputed territory-the spec
tre of starvation stalks. The far
reaches gives up a cry for the neces-
sites of life from a people whose
hearts, long sturdy in the struggle for
a new day." are forced to heed the de-
mands of want. The Associated Press
correspondent just arrived here. has
observed these conditions in crossing
Russia and Siberia all the way from
Vladivostok to Moscow and Petrograd
His arrival in Finland followed depor-
tatIon from Moscow because the au-
thorities had not given advance au-
thorization for crossing Siberia. In
Finnish surroundings he is enabled to
send an uncensored account of the
straits of the Russian people observed
while he and a number OF refugees
made the first trip of Americans
across Russia in the last four years
Everywhere in all this trip, from one
end of Russia to the other the cry for
food and clothing was heard. 1t was
voiced by the old Russian peasant type
at the Chinest frontier where the cor
respondent was first brought into Rus
sian territory. 1t was heard again
through the heart of Russia, where the
crews of locomotives were clad in rag
ged garments, with sandal-like shoes.
braided from the bark of trees. Az
they stocked their engines they begged
for black bread from the little group
of foreign refugees who were passen<
gers on the train being sent from Mos
COW to the Finnish frontier.
The appeal for the necessities of liv>
ing is universal from the people. ex>
cept from the extra rationed class Of
higher military and civil government
authorities.
To Nickolai Lenine, the soviet presi~
dent himself, according. toe the ac~
cepted report in Moscow, is attributed
the statement that the Russian people
cannot pass through another winter
like the last Even now. stories are cir
cu1ated for popular consumption that
Lenine himself is suffering for want
of food because of his insistence upon
sharing the light of the people. The
story goes that he refuses more than
his allotted share of black bread-three~
eights of a pound daily-which is the
ration today issued to the civilian pop
ulation in Moscow
Attendant @upon the sore plight Of
the people economically, is an ever in
creasing spirit of unrest and revolt.
A military organization. disciplined to
the core, finds a growing difficulty
in carrying out orders by the mailed
fist tactics in which it has hitherto
been supreme.
From east to west. the Bolsheviki
soldiers are militarily trained through
out and officered the same as any 9TH
er regularly organized army. Con-
trolled by the soviet political commits
sars. they stand prepared at all times
TO fix firmly upon the people the new
social system prescribed in the su-
nreme flats issuing from Moscow.
At the end of the second year that
the Bolsheviki have assumed direction
of the proletariat, Russia remains IN
the firm grasp of this military regime
1t is the same force which has beaten
back invading foreign armies on all
fronts, the same that has oversome all
unter-revolutionary movements.
The soviet leaders are capitalizing
their victories to the utmost. They
are instilling into the minds of the
people that the Red forces have de-
feated the worlds armies seeking TO
enslave Russia and set up another
tZarist government.