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LENINGRAD'S UNDERWORLD
LIVING IN CATACOMBS AND DRAINS :
LONDON, Bth August. The Soviet authorities; have decided to clear from the Leningrad drains *nd catacombs thousands of waifs, strays, and criminals living therein.
Most of the children are half naked and lead lives lower and more degrading than the most primitive savages.
The catacombs are.full of empty vodka bottles stolen from State vodka shops. ;
The population of the drains has its own mayor. Life begins at midnight. Men and women teach the . children every form of depravity. Officials describe the life in terms unprintable in English newspapers.
An epidemic of typhoid has been raging in Leningrad for some weeks, but was ignored for about a month owing to a desire not to disturb the "tonrist industry," which began with the arrival of Americans and Danes, whom, owing to some contracting the disease, the authorities made an effort to rush to Moscow without staying longer in Leningrad. '
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 9
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