RUSSIAN FAMINE

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 36, 11 August 1921, Page 8

RUSSIAN FAMINE

SOVIET IS IMPOTENT TO DEAL

WITH IT

A KNOCK-OUT TO THE BOLSHE■:I ■ yiKs. "■'■■■

(AVItHAUiH - XIW XIALAKS CilU AI9OCIATIOH.)

(Received August 11, 2 p.m.)

LONDON, 10th August. The Daily Telegraph publishes a poignant letter from a Russian correspondent jat Moscow stating: "What a pity you couldn't see Kamenoff, nervous , and pale, haltingly admitting ..to a meeting .of the people whom the Bolsheviks have tried for three years to destroy, that the Soviet is impotent to deal with the famine. Remember, the Government didn't call the meeting. The slaves of yesterday met and demanded it, and such was Bolshevik tryants' panic that' tWy had to comply. Hence the. creation of a non-political committee which sent out an international appeal. Although now forced to accept assistance from: those whose destruction they sought hitherto, the Bolsheviks have not changed;l their essentially malignant nature. Neither has the Soviet power to change the machinery of their monstrously corrupt administration. If the food is handed over to the Soviet, it will mean that the Beds' drone officials will get everything and the poor people nothing. Whatever is done,the outside organisations must control the distribution. The Soviet will oppose this bitterly, bnt it must not be otherwise. I think the famine has given the Bolsheviks the knock-oat. At Lenin's tea table they are discussing ways and means of escaping, comparing notes on foreign places as asylums. England is much favoured. Lenin is a wily bird, and will take good care we don't hang him in Red Square. Tho real culprits are sure to leave betimes. "We, their unwilling slaves, may yet be destr6yed by the people's first furious onslaught. I fear the famine has gone too far. The great territories which have become empty. are overrun by v^eeds. God's will he done. Forgive my incoherences, but I am always hungry and depressed. I don't believe there is government of Russia. The Soviet tyrants simply control big cities, several railroads, and little of the foods. The rest is all chaos.