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SHOCKING CONDITIONS REPORTED
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LONDON, 19th February. Delayed messages from Petrograd reflect unspeakable chaos owing to Ahe unbridled license of hordes of Bed Guards, and wholesale robberies and confiscations. Owners of. more than three horses, or four sheep, or two pigs, are heavily taxed, and the Soviets and Peas^ ants' Committees get 25 per cent, of the proceeds. A perfect saturnalia of murder, outrage, and robbery continues. As the result of the simplification of. the divorce proceedings, there have been thirty-eight thousand applications for divorce in three months. The Bolsheviks are despatching numerous Cossack battalions to the Don districts to assist the workers against General Kaledin.
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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 45, 21 February 1918, Page 7
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111UNBRIDLED LICENSE Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 45, 21 February 1918, Page 7
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