PETROGRAD'S PLIGHT

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 7

PETROGRAD'S PLIGHT

TERRIBLE CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA "THE FUTUEE SEEMS HOPELESS." (BJIITBD msS ASSOCIATION.—COF-YMBBT.) (BEDTBR'B TBLBB9AM.) (Received December 9, 9 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Bth December. ( The Dutch Minister to Petrograd, who has returned, speaks freely of the terrible conditions in Russia, and appeals to the workers of all nations against Bolshevik tendencies. The Minister characterised Bolshevism as the end of civilisation. Translated into practice, rts principles are high .wages for no work, the taking of other people's property without punishment, and no taxation. The situation in Petrograd is one of utter exhaustion, and he had never dreamt of such corruption and tyranny. The future seems hopeless, and if Russia is loft to herself she will be completely and utterly ruined. The Times Copenhagen correspondent Btates that the winter has 'been terribly gripping in Northern Russia. Petrograd is a city of death. Many have been driven insane by hunger, and thousands are dying of starvation. Hundreds of them daily are being thrown into common graves. The peasantry are without fuel, and are becoming short of food. The Bolsheviks, fearing the Allies' arrival, are le-endeavouring to exterminate the bourgeoise. The dead include distinguished authors and commercial men. The German soldiers have left the Baltic provinces, which have earnestly appealed to the Allies for help.