The New York herald., 1921-07-30
FAMINE TO WIPE OUT
EXTREME RED RULE
THROUGHOUT RUSSIA
Most Profound Change in
B0lshevism Before 1922
Is Predicted.
DICTATORS DESPERATE
Hunger Forces Communists
to Call on Other Classes
for Advice.
WILL ACCEPT ANYTHING
Hordes of Starving Eat Crops
as They March, Sweeping
Land Like LocustS.
WILL ACCEPT ANYTHING

specsaI Cable to THE New YoRK HrxALp.
Copyright, 1921. BY THE New York HERALD
REvAL, via London, July 29.--
Edgar Meshing. formerly technical
head of Bolshevik propaganda In
Petrograd, told the correspondent for
THE New YORK HERALD that the
famine has made most profound
change in Bolshevism, all extremes OF
which will disappear before the end
of the year. He said this does not
necessarily involve the disappearance
of Lenine.
1t is possible that in the present
stupendous famine all Russians will
come together, and many prominent
anti -Bolsheviks, like Paul Miliukof,
want to do so. Some OF the Soviet
newspapers are still truculent and try
to prove that the surplus harvest in
Ukraine will make up the deficiency
in the volga district. They scoR at
Secretary Hoover's conditions, but as
matter of fact the bottom has been
knocked out Of the Bolshevist die
hards and they are ready to accept
anything.
At the formation of the hunger
committee in Moscow, the majority
of members of which are non-Bol-
shevist, Kishkin of the Cadet party
was prominent figure in the COM
mittee. Kushkeva, also prominent in
the committee, well known woman
leader Of the cooperatives, is coming
to Reval III connection with negotia-
tions with foreign organizations re-
garding the famine question. Other
members of the committee include
Prokopovitch, Golovin, Speaker Of
the second Duma, and Korobov. head
of the cooperatives. All these are
Cadets, and their appointment signi-
fies the most profound change in
Bolshevist tactics under the influence
of the famine. M. Meshing thinks
that this change will be accentuated
II American relief enters Russia.
states Prepare for Change.
The border States are all preparing
for this change and there is great
diplomatic activity In the formation OF
Polish, Rumanian and Baltic alliances
and in efforts at rapprochement be-
tween these two groups.
There are appalling reports Of grea.
hunger marches. Hordes Of tens OF
thousands on the track of the bar
barian invasions Of Europe in the sixth
century are already on the way. The
famished people are eating all the
crops as they go, and. like locusts. are
spreading famine everywhere. Forty
versts from Khvalynsk on the volga
hordes of several thousands devoured
the crops. The local peasants resisted
Troops we're called in and 1000 per-
sons were killed and wounded. as
mothers with babies in their arms
threw themselves in front of the rifles
to die by bullets instead of hunger.
All trains are rushed by thousands of
hungry fugitives. a. condition which Is
demoralizing railway traffic.
A special detachment Of troops from
Moscow has been sent by an extraor-
dinary commission to restore order. In
Sim brisk and Saratov food trade has
stopped owing to the enormous swarms
of hungry children who devoured
everything in the booths and shops. In
Astrakhan the peasants. resenting the
cholera measures, massacred all the
officials Troops restored order.
People Are Eating Grass.
A long list Of villages have been aban-
doned. People are eating grass in the
Bashkir republic. The whole town OF
saratov In one concentration camp of
people who are dying OF hunger. and
those Of all the. surrounding villages
have crowded themselves In. In the
vyatsky province mortality has m
creased 30 per cent. In the last month
In all the villages along the volga the
Inhabitants are eating roots. grass and
reptiles. Moscow has prohibited a fuN
ther infux from the famine area into
the capital.
NJ Pokrovsky. a former Czariet Min
lister. who 10 now a member Of the Boil
shevist Government In the Departments
OF Finance. Foreign Affairs and Conces-
sions. has arrived in Reval under an as
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