INTERNAL CONDITIONS.

Evening Star, Issue 16664, 21 February 1918, Page 3

INTERNAL CONDITIONS.

PETROGRAD WORSE THAN EVER. MOSCOW NOT SO BAD. 'The Times.' LONDON. February 19. Delayed messages from Petrograd" reflect unspeakable chaos owing to the unbridled license. Hordes of Red Guards perpetrate wholesale robberies and confiscations. Owners of more than three horses or four sheep or two pigs are heavily taxed, and the .Soviets and Peasants' Committee get 25 per cent, of the proceeds. A perfect saturnalia of murder, outrage, and robbery continues. As a result of the. simplification of divorce proceedings there were 38,000 'applications for divorce in three months. The Bolsheviks are despatching numerous Cossack battalions to the Don to assist the workers against General Kale- I din and his Cossack forces. Eeuter's Telegrams. PETROGRAD, February 19. It is reported that General Kaledin has committed suicide. LONDON, February 19. The 'Daily Chronicle's' Moscow correspondent writes : The Bolsheviks' regime is milder here, and the traco of starvation is less imminent. It is a cifcv of refuge for intelligents. Many officers are selling newspapers in the streets ; others are unloading trucks arid sweeping crossings. The proletariat is not faring much better. The factories are gradually closing, and unemployment is increasing" ,owing "to the want of raw material. Men in soldiers' uniform are making great profits bv selling food at excessive prices, aiter securing the Revolutionary Committee's authority to confiscate the peasants' goods, the peasants being flogged if they fail to give up their goods. The "intelligents" arc not seeking palliatives; they are convinced that "the masses must learn by bitter experience what Bolshevik Socialism means, v