Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-27
DATA REGARDING FAMINE IN RUSSIA.

The present famine comes as the cul- imitation of four years of civil war, of pFfyatisns and even of slow starvation throughout the entire territory of Rus sia, writes A. J. Sack, director of the 1ssiaH information bureau. According to the official bolshevist Pravda of June 26, 1921, as result of the drought and the crop failure famine is raging now among a population numbering about
 25. .o00.000. According to this paper, the famine territory embraces the provinces
 of Ufa, TzaritZin, Saratov, Samara, Sim birsk, Viatka, Perm, Kazan and the north
 srn Caucasus from which the population Is fleeing in terror.
 The situation is made more catastro-
 phical by the fact that, due to the de struction of transport and the shrink age in area under agricultural cultiva-
 ton, the other regions of Russia are un- able to help those affected by the famine In his address before the Eighth Congress of Soviets Trotzky-~himself acknowledged
 that about 5000 versts q verst equals 80.s s6 mile) of Russian railroads are de-
 stroyed so that only the central part
 about 15,5o0 veFsts, remains intact.
 5000 bridges and 16,000 telephones and
 teIegraplG have also been destroyed and
 we have about 61 per cent of sick loco
  E1s26.) Speaking at the recent Moscow conference of the communist party, Kane
 neff, the president of the Moscow soviet
 and the chairman of the All-Russion com
 mission for combating famine said ac- eording to the official bolshevist Pravda
 of June 30 1921, that as a result of our food levies there is a terrible shrinkage of the area under agricultural cultiva- tion, the decrease amounting to nearly
 25, COG, 900 dessiatines (about 67,50O,OOO aeres). We have reached the stage where the incentive for developing their farms has almost disappeared among the peasants. The bolshevist policy said Kameneff, has resulted in agriculture hav- ing decreased to half of it's former ex- tent while the industries, even accord 1 ing to an optimistic estimate produce
 only one-seventh of what was produced
 before.
 Thus Kameneff, a bolshevist leader
 himself fixes upon the bolshevlst regime
 The responsibility for the catastrophe in
 Russia. The drought is only one cause of this catastrophe Were there an eff feient government in Russia; were there
 surpluses in other regions of Russia
 we're the means of transportation in run ming order were Russia not isolated
 from the entire civilized world by the ] tyrannic bolshevist regime which deelar- ed in itself in permanent war against
 democratic civilization, Russia would be able to help herself in combating the results of the drought and the other na- ltions would be in a better position to help her, Now, when the economic cat
 astrophe comes as the logical result ot ithe bolsheyist experiments, criminally Iperfor.ned upon the unwilling body oi Russia, the Belsheviki themselves are
 becoming more and more frank in then admissions and confessions. Official bol-
 {sheyist statements acknowledge whai
 Secretary Hoover admirably expressed IT
 his communication to the former Presl-
 dent Ader of Switzerland saying tha
 lthe causes of the famine are such tnal
 Ithey will be recurrent every year un1 Ethere is much further change lR the eco homie system of Russia. In the Moscow
 Pravda of July-16, 1921, we ind aI
 Eeditorial in which an admission is made that the condition of all branches O , the national economy of Russia mus he characterized as being near catas Etrephe and that this is not mere phras'
 but a bitter reality. The paper con i demns the bolshevist economic policy , telling that as soon as we would succeed . in speeding up one part of our econom , ie fabric. another part would at ono , Sink down, inevitably dragging the form CT with it. Describing the present condi Ition of the basic industries in Russia ' the bolshevist publication says:
 : 'sThe Donetz Basin, the main source : our coal supply, is painfully totter1ng [ aa it's fall, sapping at it's very roots tn t work that had already commenced to i'm : prove. After passing in December, 192( 2 the 30 million pood mark q pood abou 37. lb); the average monthly output i 1917 amounted to 126 million poods, the output of the Donstz Basin grew t
 i33.3 million poods in March, and sank t BOP million poods in April, 1921. l d May however production took shar e tumble. being PAS poods of coal instea f of the expected 32 million. In June tn t Iputput was only IS million poods.
 t "No better is the condition of our mt d allurgical industry, steadily increa' d ing number of factories is being shr t down and a growing number of furnace n is being extinguished. The output V shock works supplying transnortatio |" needs sank in May not only to the lew O l-of the January output for number s articles, but it even fell considerabl - below that And this in spite of the fa' d that the January output had been e if lpecially low already on account of hol . days etc. The percentage of worker 2 failing to report for duty took sudde if forward jump, being 30 per cent on a ,s average. There is no need to dwell upc s isther branches. It is perfectly ebyie' 10 that our. whole industry is on the brlT = of catastrophe"
 -a The Russian people can hardly be he " responsible for the bolshevist palicy whif So brought Russia to temporary ruin. 1T If bolsheviki usurped power in Russia at Il "a time the country was exhausted by thr ,s years of war, during which her casus - ties exceeded those of all the Alli' 1- countries taken together. The Bolshevi
 have sustained themselves in DOW l. through merciless application of arm Tn force, through terror and numberless C 1t ecutions It is clear that this regi1 :? cannot last forever. It is but passil s, stage in the development of the Russi; le revolution which, in spite of all it's e re cesses and sufferings, remains turnil l. point to g better happier and me " prosperous life in Russia. It is hard st possible that the bolshevist regime " is survive the present catastrophe. Drea ys full as it is. this famine may prove ,y be Russia's last misfortune, turnil ly point towards her recovery.
 ce At this trying hour in Russia's e is istence, when millions of our men, wom a. and children are facing terrible dea