The Washington times., 1923-03-17
SAYS RUSSIANS
SUFFER IN
Sill ENCE
Famine Misery Unbelievable
and Moscow Hard Hit, Eng
Iishwoman Declares.
~ intermittent News Service.

MANCHESTER, England. March
17.-A vivid story Of unparalleled
sufferings in the Russian famine i
told BY Miss II. e. Walker. secre-
tary. Manchester Russian famine
relief fund, who has just returned
after q three-month tour OF the
famine regions.
Compared with some places" she
says, there Is no famine In Mos
cow, although tea there Ii $50 a
pound: sugar, $50 81 pound; boots,
$40 3 pair; wooden stockings, SIS 8
pair: tablets OF cheap soap, sl1fl-
lings each: black bread, pence a
pound, and wages average no more
than from 8 pence q day for uIl.
skilled artisans to is pence for
skilled men.
Life IN Moscow. ii comparatively
normal, but the streets are lined
with beggars and unemployed.
Jews Own Cars.
There are many motor cars, 100,
but these belong to the Jews, who,
taking advantage OF the change Of
policy permitting private enter
prise, have opened plenty Of shops.
Indeed, practically all the shops in
MOSCOW are open now. So are the
theatera and concert halls. There
are still free seats, but recently d
charge was introduced for the bet.
ter class seats. In other seats II Is
now common for government of.
ficiafs to find themselves next ito
charWomen and others Of the
plebeian classes.
''On one occasion TrOtzIEy occu,
pied the next box to mine at q
theater. He Is not thought SO much
of as Lenin, who never stirs from
the Kremlin--the city within the
city. the home Of all the govern.
iment officials.
"A doctor told me that Lenin Il
three parts paralyzed and that an
other stroke IL expected any day,
IT seems as though Lentn is doom.
ed to die very shortly.
The fact that he is, too, .l10r.
oughbred Russian, unlike Trotsky
and many other leaders, secures
him e place In popular esteem de-
MED them.
Found CannibaIlsn.
II came across absolute PROF
that cannibaIism had been INDUCED
In. Several little children told me
quite frankly that they like human
flesh much better than animal
flesh These were not their words,
Of course, but 1t is the sense OF
what they said to me.
They are living on bread made
of q mixture OF bark OF .:rees
grass and. dried pumpkins, and
there are tnoW over / ,0OO, 900 on,
phans in the country.
The plight OF the students az
Kieff Is pitiable beyond words II
was not an uncommon thing to see
girl students in bitterly cold wealth.
err wearing only thin nightdress
for all purposes, and boys 90.
ing about their business in just
shirt and thin cotton pants. BY
day the students sell matches IN
the streets, doing their studies at
night.
Many Perish.
In Odessa, which suffered 60
much from the acquisitions made
by the. armies of DeniIxin, Wrangel
and Petlura, 1925 OF the 37.70O
people perished last year. In one
tiny village dwelling which I Wis
tied there were ten people with
no more food between them for
the next seven months than four
teen dried pumpkins. There were
only four garments in the house.
They were worn in turns by those
able to wear them, and the rcst
had to exist naked in the bitterest
of cold weather.
Wherever went / was tre-
mendously impressed by the mag
nificent conduct of the doctors"