Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-09-10
ALI RUSSIA MEETS
! IN FAM|NE CORNER
Starving Hordes From All Sec
! tons Of Central MuscoVy
! Pour Into Syrian
HOSPITALS ONLY M0RGUES
nv FInYD GIBBONS
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Syunn. Capital Of the State Of Sim
Mrsk, Sept 3 By courier to Riga. sept
9.--Here Is where Europe and Asia
meet by the railroad. where camel and
horse and raft and barge bring the East
and West and the North and the South
together. One line runs northeast TO
Cheliabinsk to connect with the trans
Siberian Railway-nnother runs south
east. tapping the prosperity of Turke.
stan--another runs west to Pcnzn and
then southwest to Ktev and Odessa and
another stretches northwest 20 Moscow.
Lumber RATS bring starving IartarS
south on the Nolga to this point wher"
they meet river barges laden with retn-
gees from as far south aS Astrakhan.
Different in languages. customs. nab
its, religion and garb, they find com
mon denominator in hunger, disease,
rags and flth. They come begging nr they
seek shipment to places whore there -
food They are helpless and the govern
ment they appeal to admits ifS helpless
ness to fill their needs. And thus they
sit and wait and pray 10 their different
gods and die while the gongs and bells
in the gilded church domes deliver q
seemingly barbarous clamor twice daily.
Cannot Move Refugees
We are inundated by this great hu
man traffic and we cannot move them
and II VIC could NOV" them il would
only mean spreading cholera and typhu-
all over Russia said the secretary TO
che Governor through an Interpreter.
''Over 100. 900 have been moved through
here during the last three months. but
there should have been facilities TO
have moved SOC. 900. Many died some
are here yet and more are coming all
the time Our city population was
normally GO ,00O-now ii is almost three
times as many; we have no way of eS
timating. We figure that about 1000
are leaving daily-God knows how many
arc coming in. When tn" peasants
stnrvc out on the farms there is n-
other place for them ~ come save the
towns. They stay on the land until the
last food iS consumed. always hoping
that relief will arrive. but when there
Is nothing left for them to cat they turn
their faces TO the cities. We have ship .
ped 5000 of their children TO Moscow.
but the town il full with thousands
more whom we are unable 10 ship.
Bread is now costing 5000 ruuDics n
loaf here. Everybody is trying to live
by speculation. which is permitted under
the new economic policy. know ono
man who bought so. 900 roub.eS worth
100000. Before the war thirty six
pounds OF -four used to cost forty two
kopecks labout twenty five cents in
American money now it costs l5o, GOO
roubles about S4l.
Hospital Place 10 Die
"Our hospital is no longer hos
pital. il is just a place to die in No
more medicine. supplies or anything 50
the doctors just left. Now the sick
crawI into the building 10 die and other
sick have to carry the bodies out We
have several military barracks on the
edge Of the town az the disposal Of the
refugees but they refuse to live in them.
prefcrring to camp down here in thG
station. on the railroad tracks. in the
city square and all over the streets
They believe that is the only way they
can force the Government to act OF
their behalf They do not seem tC
I know that We are just as helpless IL;
: they arc.
I'VE hear that the TurkPstan cror
. amounted 10 ~. 500 600 .0GO pounds this
year and that the central government
has declared that half Of this will bc
distributed in the Nolga district. We
expect T2.O0OO00 pounds from Siberia
and go carloads. or about J.I0O. .O0C
pounds. from tho Ukraine. bUt none ha!
arrived yet. If all or expectations ma
teria)i2e We may be able to take care
OF 10 per cent of our necIs. but 4 not
then only - per cent. Our ration fol
Government officials, which has Away
been slim. has now been reduced Il
about cne.hfth Of the regular amount
Our harvest l. loss than one tenth ~
the average Weld, Since June all o
us have been eating moist grass an
bark. Parents who aren't able 10 fee
chair CHI l,l,pD rri
the authorities or abandoning them il
front Of government buildings. =
many have been left on our hands tha
We arc not able 70 care for them.
spsctai CaLie Dispatch. CopI"iDh'. I72i
Moscow. Sept 1O.-Rilion- in papc
roub!cs change hands daily ct Moscow
several food markets. where gathe
peasants, officials. spP"u latorS and th
unbiased bourgeo.S To exchange ~
things they have for the things the
have not and 70 effect Il living by tn
transactions The markets usually ar
located in open squares. where tn" sci,
ers. with their wares. range themSolv'
in rows. either sIuatting on the grOun
behind their goods or displaying tho
on wooden tables. while purchasers
other peddlCrS stream past, inSpertin
the proffercd articles "ilarr by pInrn ,
smell. snmpling by taste being taboo.
The PctrovKai market j, typir
Russiant peasant marhrt ~ Moscow
Looking NJ the ments for aIl the lLCi
stalls are arranged side by side. tn" Ill
gle word "Skolko meaning how mut
will elicit prices running high in
the thousands but actually low whe
considered in tn" western cxrhGng
Some Of the prices for StapeS cncour
tered on an inSpecti"n Of the mark
today. are as follows: Meat j. NIId
the funt, which il rin"-,enths of
pound, and 10000 roubIes are wor
about one American dolla"