RUSSIA'S PLIGHT.
TUB STATS OP PETEOGRAD. {By Cable—Prw Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Amociatdoo.) (Received December 4th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, December 2. The special correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle," writing from Petrograd, says "This is a dying city. It outwardly retains its magnificent buildings and wide streets, but buildings whis/i once swarmed with are now empty. It is a sad setting to a tragic farce. The facades of the buildings are adorned with gigantic portraits of Lenin, Trotsky, and Karl Marx, hut the population is essentially bourgois. They live by what they call speculation. Someone buys a pair of boots from another who has two pairs. The sellers goes to someone who has two coats and replenishes his wardrobe with the money obtained for the boots, and so the exchange goes on. The original capital to start the speculation was probably saved from the wreckage of four j ears ago or is the result of illicit dealings in eggs, butter, and other property of the peasants.. The people of Petrograd are really living by taking in one another's washing."
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17320, 5 December 1921, Page 7
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