The New York herald., 1920-12-03

ica in one colossal Pan-American revo-
luton.
All the guests had been In jail some
where or other. Some had the distihc~
ton of having done time on two or
three continents, and having been eX-
pencd from helf dozen different coun-
tries. They had come to Russia by
devious routes and in strange disguises.
Some Americans came from Stettin
Germany. with returning prisoners OF
war, while others worked their way as
seamen before the mast.
Ono of the Americans who had been
in prison three tilnes--in America. Aus
tralia and Sweden-was rather looked
down upon by the others until he en-
planned that he had been expelled from
seven countries. This hard luck story
softened the heart Of Lenine, who be-
gan to tell some good yarns over the
walnuts and wine
Among the striking things the Red
Car said was that 70 per cent of the
old Communist party-slsiled and I'm
skilled workmen mostly--had been killed
off al the front in the last three years.
To leave the banquet and deal with
less interesting but more important
topics. there Is hardly an extra suit OF
underclothng In all Moscow. and there
is extreme lack of drugs, tools. hard
ware, shoes and spare parts of ma
chinery Even the soldiers are now
wearing shoes made of the bark OF trees.
Plumbers materials are very short
Lubricating oil Is rot so scarce as two
years ago There is great lack of troll
lev parts. automobiles and motortrucks.
The Rods have "a horse cart service for
! collecting agricultural products, bring
, Ia, IN lp "A There
a shortage OF cotton, as not much comes
from Turkestan.
/ Felnberger, who looked after Eng
! lish affairs at the meeting of the Inter-
at'onale at the same time he served
| at the Foreign ONCE, has left the FOR
! eiEn ONCE and Is now devoting all hie
! attention to the Intcrnattonale, anu
| Rosenberg, who presided at the press
section Of the Foreign Office has sole
to Siberia. both changes due propapiy
to protests Of the British Government
A book has been published on the case
of British Consul Lockhart, and an at
tempt will be made In it to prove by
documents alleged to have been found
in Lockhart's house. from evidence fur
| nished by Capt. Sadul. that the British
Government was behind the schemes for
instigating instructions against the
! Soviet Government and bringing about
I
! the assa sasstnation of Lenine and Trotzky
/ This book will be out in a few weeks
and great efforts will be made to dis
tribute il abroad.
..X." who is a prominent Socialist, bni
not a Communist, says that the Soviet
/ Government Is neither Socialist nor
Communist "It is simply" he said, "a
dictatorship of the commissar caste, and
win only discredlt the Socialist effort
throughout the world. 1t is very unfor-
tunatc that this experiment has begun
in Russia. for owing to their Ignorance
| the Russian workmen cannot grasp So
cialist principles. They were born lazy
they live lazy. they die lazy.
"On the other hand. they are yer,
p'astic. and 4 Socialist dictator can dt
more with them than he could with Eng
! lish Or American worImen. Moreover
/ TREY stand nrivation that would kill any
! bod else. To mo at least the most sur
pri NC thing about them is that tine,
n~e a,ive at ALL"