Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-24

You walk along the main street or Moscow. People Tn military uniforms with the buttons covered in cloth and red cockad des on their varied mats, hurry somewhere looking occupied and con tent. Elderly people with a d1straught look in their eyes thin and bent move slowly. carrying small tins, to Jom long queue at the peoples dining room says the London Daily Telegraph Ihe people in the queue LOOK pale anu ues- olate.
 The door opens and the queue, now losing -erder dashes' forward; some are knocked down, some are squeezed in the doorway and there is a fight, with much shouting and swearing. You stop to study the peoples faces and can see that most of them know what politeness is and have once lived what is gener- ally called a civilized life, but now they are little better than pack of hungry wolves However, being hungry your self you understand them and II you had no hope of anything better than what they are waiting for, that is a pint of watery soup, you would do anything not to lose it. But you have some very valuable friends You know one or two state bakers, and therefore you need not stand in the hungry queue. Yes. you are lucky indeed.
 You walk further All the shops ex- cept the booksellers are closed There are no private booksellers or publishers now The state has monopollzed ! thought and the press in just the same way as it has monopo!zed everything 1 else, education industry trade, etc. You are expected to think on on other lines
 but the bolshevik If you have differ ent view about things you had better be silent unless you want to me impris- oned Nothing goes into print but what the bosheviks approve Of. Where are 1 all the noble minds and hearts? Yes
 progressive thought and feeling have
 long since disappeared.
 You walk along. What is this crowt
 in the street? You go nearer and fine | that it is a crowd of town people, clerks students shopkeepers. equipped witt spades, iron bars, pickaxes. There art
 men and women old and young, il
 shabby and insufficient clothing, som' leaning on their tools and resting, som' langudly picking with pickaxes to- heavy for their inexperienced hands ant
 backs. They are clearing the street o snow and ice, which is almost foo deep.
 Those with spades are throwing tn Jumps upon a sledge in front of whicl
 
 lropes over their shoulders, ready to !,
 the sledge when the load is completed
 Soviet steeds, you hear as passin remark Red guards with guns wal
 round the crowd
 You approach one of them and as
 "Who are these people? Are they con vic.s? What have they done?" It briefly explained that they are citizen . doing work of social importance. To stay little while to notice the variou
 expressions and to study the efficienc
 of this system, and you see quite clearl
 that a dozen strong, capable men woul 7 do the same work in less time than thi crowd of hungry and angry people. You approach a station. A train ha just arrived and a crowd of people pouring out of it. They are all carry ing bagz-heavy bags which are carrie with difficulty, What have you gc there? you ask one Of them and | shouts to you without stopping '.Pots {. toes potato4s." Where from?" yo ask. How much did you pay? Is it . long iourney?"- A former schoolmaste resting beside his bag, explains to yo everything you want 10 know, and yo make up your mind to go tomorrow. 2 Next day you go to the station wit z a sack under your arm. The waitin . room and all the passages are full = people lying about on their bundle . some soundly asleep some idly smokin ' foul tobacco. The floors are wet fro n the melting snow brought fin on boo l and from the exhaled moisture whfe = eondenses on the cold ceilings and wal
 and drips down. They have been hei
 since yesterday, taking every precautic . not to lose the oportunity of obtainir = a ticket before the train starts 1 If they come too late the queues w :. be too long to pass the booking off :. before the train has gone. You kno . that typhus is raging and you kno ' that it is spread chiefly through ii ' Your heart sinks within you as VI ', think of the danger to which these De Il pie are exposed. The vermin must :, thriving under such conditions IT = people also know the danger, for t 2 bills-'Tce are your most dangero enemies Beware of lice''-are stuck if everywhere; but they are tired and sle e is irresistible.
 .s At last you reach your destinati