The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-08-11
FIRST TRIP THROUGH RUSSIA
BY AMERICANS IS DESCRIBED
Associated Press Correspondent
Tells of Situation After
Deportation
GREAT CLAMOR FOR FOOD
Russia Faces Serious Task in
Getting Through the Com
ing Winter

Fiborg, Finland, Russian frontier,
Tuesday, .(By the Associated Press).-
Flushed with success and confident OF
Poland's defeat Soviet Russia faces
the approaching winter with the grim
problem of food as it's great test of
power. From the far east to the Fin
ish -4,000 miles Of undisput.
ed territory-the specter Of starvation
stalks threateningly as the far reaches
give up a cry for the necessities OF
life from people! whose heart long
sturdy in the struggle for "a new day"
are forced to heed the demands Of
want. M,EF ess
The Associated Press correspondent,
just arrived here, has observed these
conditions in crossing Russia and ST.
IBERIA all the way from Vladivostokto
Moscow and Petrograd His arrival
in Finland followed deportation from
Moscow because the authorities had
not given advance authorization for
crossing Siberia. In Finish surround
sored he is enabled to send an uncen"
sored account of the straights of the
Russian people as hurriedly observed
while he and a number of refugees
made the first trip of Americans
across Russia in the past two years.
All Cry For Food
Everywhere in all this trip, from
one end of Russia to the other, the
cry for food and clothing was heard.
1t was heard again through the heart
of Russia where the crews of locomo-
tives were clad in ragged garments
and with sandal light shoes made
from the barks of trees
begged for black bread from the little
group of foreign refugees who were
passengers on the train being sent
from Moscow to the Finnish frontier.
The appeal for the necessities OF
living is universal from the people.
except from the extra-rationed class,
from the higher military and civil gov
ernment authorities.
Situation Realized
To Nicolai 'Lenine the Soviet presl.
dent according to an accepted report
in Moscow is attributed the statement
that the Russian people cannot pass
through another winter like the last.
Attendant upon the sore plight OF
the people economically is the ever
increasing unrest and revolt. The
military organization. disciplined to
the core, finds a growing difficulty in
carrying out orders by the mailed fist
in territory in which it has hitherto
been supreme.
Two Years of Control
At the end of the second year that
the Bolsheviki have assumed the di-
rection of the proletariat, Russia re-
mains in the firm grasp OF this mill
tary regime.
The rich black soil in southern Rus
sia is said this year to have produced
less than half crop because Of
drouth. The army is continually
draining the food stocks while every
where women, girls and boys are re-
placing men at all forms of labor.
Industry Breaks Down
The spectacle of stringency is COM
plete with hundreds Of dorment fac
tory stocks from the small districts Of
Irkupsk and Omsk through the larger
industrial centers of the Urals to the
great manufacturing district of Mos
COW, standing as monuments to an in.
dustrial structure bearing all the ap.
pearances of having broken down.