New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-13
II anime Riots
Sweeping Over
Middle Russia
Bolshevik Press Admits 25,-
100000 Hanger-Coaded
Ghosts Are Searching
the Provinces for Food
Cattle in Volga Starving
Moscow and Petrograd ia
Distress; Diplomat Pre-
diets Early Soviet Fall
Special Coble to TIE 7,ribnne

Copy right, 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
BENLIN, July H. Grave and wide
spread hunger riots are sweeping the
central provinces Of Russia, accord
ing to Information reaching here
from authentic sources. The situation
is particularly serious in the upper
Volga region.
Hungry MODS Of peasants, with their
wives and children, are moving about
the stricken provinces demanding food.
IN many places the peasants are seiz-
ing fields and stock belonging to the
more fortunate sections of the popula-
ton,
The Soviet government Is striving
desperately to calm the panic-stricken
population with proclamations and
promises. The whole situation in
the upper Volga is terrible beyond
description. According to the lzyest,a
there is shortage of 100,000,0O0
pools of bread. This newspaper de-
clares that all tho cattle in the Volga
region, as we'll as in southern Russia,
are in grave danger of extinction be-
cause of lack of fodder.
Petrograd Suffering
While the commissariat on foreign
trade announces that no foodstuffs can
be bought from Armenia and northern
Persia for the relief of the starving
population until fall, the Soviet gov
eminent has ordered its representa-
tives in western Europe to buy up
foodstuffs in the greatest quantities
possible for the relief OF the cities
in northern Russia, especially Petro-
grad and Moscow, where the food
crisis is more acute than at any
period in the last four years.
The Pravda writes that "the de.
st1uction of crops in whole series OF
provinces threatens the Soviet republic
with trials hitherto unknown"
This famine" it continues, "will
not only bring hunger to millions of
people, but it will Nave a catastrophe
effect on our entire cattle industry.
There is absolutely no feed for the
cattle in the Don region or the Sta
vropol- Kuban regions. The cattle must
inevitably perish this winter"
Such is the tragic picture of the suf-
ferings Of the Russian people in the
destruction of Russia's economic life
as painted by the Soviet press.
An official of a Scandinavian diplo
matte mission to Moscow, who passed
through Berlin from Russia to-day,
told the Tribune correspondent that
the peasant hunger riots were being led
returned to their villages, taking rifles,
machine guns and ammunition with
them. According to The Tribune's
informant, the hunger riots are assuln-
ing the proportions of a grand upris-
ing, threatening the overthrow Of the
Soviet government. 1t was the opinion
of this official that the Soviet govern
ment would not last more than three
months.
Official reports published in the
Pravda support the story of suffering
Acco~dir~ to This Bolshevik newspaper.
25,0OO,o0O Russians already are
in the throes Of the famine, un-
precedented in all Russia's history, and
that men, women and children are
walking around looking like ghosts, in
search of bread. The situation is par
ticularly critical in Uffa, Tsaritsin,
Saratoff, Samara, Simbirsk, Viatka
Perm and kazan provinces as we'll as
the region embraced in the northern
Caucasus. Manv thousands are fleeing
into Siberia and across the Ural.
The Bolshevih government, in its
fering, has permitted the formation of
an emergency relief committee in Mos
COW containing representatives of the
bourgeoisie. Among the members of
the committee are the noted cadet
kishlin, formerly member of the pro-
vlsional government; Propokovitch,
former minister of trade and commerce
in the Kerensky cabinet, and many
other men and women prominent il
the revolution prior to the Bolshevik
regime. Thanks to the intercession of
Maxim Gorky, the committee will work
Independently. 1t intends to appeal to
the world for aid to save millions of
Russians from the pangs of death this
summer.
1t is feared now that Moscow itself
may be in the throes of complete fam
inc by the middle of July.