Norwich bulletin., 1921-03-05

Bolshevist papers just received a from , Russia are full of material describing the | pitfful condition of Russia,s transport, in- dustries and agriculture under the bol- shevist rule writes A. J. Sack Following is the indictment of the bolshevist regime, since it comes Sdtrect from boIsheEist; mouths.
 The official tbolshevist @Izyestia" of December 28, 1920, contains the text of Trotzky's speech before the eighth cont gress of soviets, in which he pointed out that at present "abput 54.0O0 syersts (1 5 verst equals 0.66smiteN of Russian rail-f roads are destroyed, so that only the central part, about 15,00o versts, remains intact. 5000 bridges and .1S.000 tele- phones and telegrapas have also been destroyed and we have about 61 per cent of sick locomotives" 7
 Speaking on the same subject the re- gently appointed commissary of means of communication, Yemsianov, said that %out of 6 total of 38.o0O telephones along the railroad lines of Russias S2, 500 require major repairs. Out of : 10000 telegraphs 5000 are in need of major repairs. The electric signal apparatus must be completely overhauled. The up- per part of the roadbeds Is in catastro- phic condition. The repair ehops are mostly in ruins and their machinery has been denuded of important parts"
 The representative of the supreme council of national economy, A Loffaov
 writes in the official bolshevist "Pravda" No 4. "The last news from the Ukraine shows that the fuel situation is in a catastro- l phic state. On the majority of Ukranian railroads the locomotives stand without l fires. Hundreds of cars loaded with food and provisions for Central Russia have
 been left standing on the way. the juno tions are clogged and the roads are re- | quisittoning all the coal they find in cars, | nc, matter to whom it may belong.
 l (Ths catastrophe condition of the transportation system increases the tor lures of famine through which Central Russia is passing at present as the result of boishevist anarchy combined with an unprecedented crop failure. No less
 than 2o,0Oo, 900 peasants are starving this winter in the Volga region and in othef provinces of Central Russia, and the bolshevist press describes the beginning of g wholesale extermlnation of cattle 1 for lack of fodder" "Economicscheskaia Zhizn" (Economic Life) says that news i is already beginning to reach us from the central provinces about famine having sci
 in among the people and about wholesale extermination of cattle for lack of fodder I According to report rom the provinces of Kaluga, Tula and Itiazan. The peas.
 ants are taking their horses to the soy. let agricultural stations because of the fodder shortage to board them there But as they get no, help there, they
 abandon the horses to their fate. A the local markets horses are sold fo 5000 rubles-10, 900 rubles per head, in fstead of the 100000 -150,OoO rubles the, I fetched in September. Wholesale de
 struction of cattle, especially calves is il
 progress |" The paper concludes b! says that 'the foundation of our agri
 culture, it's very thews and sinews, il
 perishing. Labor power, manure, miI
 for the sustenance of the children of oui peasantry, everything is perishing. .Thi:
 is only the beginning of winter, but every
 succeeding month conditions will grow
 worse and worse"
 The condition of the workingnen unde
 the bolshevist dictatorship and the sys
 tenn of militarization of labor are no
 better than those of the peasants. 4
 bolshevist commissary Boguslavsky, writ ing in the official bolshevist Pravda" No
 G., says that '-the workingmen are with