The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-11
Over 1900 Miles of Terri.
ritory Held by Soviet
Troops Famine Rules in
Land of Bear

NibSe, Finland, Aug. 1O.--Flushed
with success and confident Of Polish
defeat, soviet Russia faces the APP
preaching winter with the grim prob
lem Of food, as its supreme test Of
power. From the far East to the
Finnish frontier-4OOO miles Of un.
disputed territory the spectre OF
starvation stalks threatening, as the
far reaches give up a cry for the
necessities of life from people whose
hearts, long sturdy in the struggle
for a nav day" are forced to heed
the demands 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 ar
rival in Finland followed deportation
from Moscow because the authorities
had not given advance authorization
for crossing Siberia. In Finnish sur.
roundings. he is enabled to send an
uncensored account of the straits or
the Russian people, as hurriedly OBJ.
served while he and number of refu.
gees made the first trip Of Ameri-
cans across Russia in the last two
years.
Food, FOOD" the Cry
Everywhere in all this trip from ono
end of Russia, to the other, the cry
for food and clothing was heard. It
was voiced by the old Russian peas.
ant type at the Chinese frontier,
where the correspondent was first
brought into Russian territory. 1t was
heard again through the heart Of
Russia, where the crews of locomo
tives were clad in ragged garments,
with sandal-like shoes braided from
the bark of trees
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
center.
The appeal for the necessities OF
living in universal from the peopir
except from the extra.rational class
of higher military and civil govern.
ment
Lenine Shares With People
To Nikolai Lenine the soviet presi.
dent, himself, according to the ac.
cepted report in Moscow is attributed
the statement that the Russian peo.
pie cannot pass through another win.
ter like the last. Even now, stories
are circulated for popular consump.
tion, that Lenine himself is SUFFERING,
for want Of food, because OF his in.
sistence upon sharing the plight or
the people. The story goes that he
refuses TO accept more than his al
lotted share of black bread three.
eighths of q pound daily-which is the
ration today issued 10 the civilian
population in Moscow.
Attendant upon the sore plight Of
the people, economically is an ever
increasing spirit of unrest and revolt.
A military organization, disciplined
to the core, finds a growing difficulty
in carrying out orders by mail BY
the first tactics In which it has hith.
erto been supreme.
BOlsheviki Trained
From the east to west, the bolshe.
wiki soldiers are military trained
throughout, and differed the same
as any regular organized army. Con-
troiled by the soviet political commis.
ars they stand prepared at all times
to fix firmly upon the people the new
social system prescribed in the su.
preme flats issuing from Moscow.
AT the end of the second year, that
the bolsheviki have assumed direction
OF the proletariat, Russia remains In
me Sirm grip of this military regime.
1t Is the same force which has
beaten back invading armies on all
fronts, the same that has overcome
all the counter-revolutonary move.
mentS.
The soviet leaders are capitalizing
their victories to the utmost. They
are lnstilling into the minds of the
people that the red forces have de-
1eated the worlds armies seeking 10
enslave Russia, and set up another
form Of tsarist government. They ara
urging upon them that the tragic
sutferings and sacrifices will firmly
establish national security and spread
the cause of social revolution through.
out the lands. In some cases. along
the eastern frontier, the pleas fall
upon unwilling ears of the peasant
pioneer who looked upon the former
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