CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 5 January 1929, Page 8

CONDITIONS IN RUSSIA.

TERRIBLE STATE OF THINGS,

THE COMING BREAKDOAVN

LONDNO, Nov. 15

Bishop Bury, who, as Anglican Bishop* for Northern and Central Europe, was a constant visitor to Russia* before the Revolution, gave an address last week at the City Church of St. Anne and St. Agnes on “The Coming Breakdown in Russia.” He said that all observers who knew the country and had real information from Russia itself confirmed the opinion that nothing could improve until there was a complete and entire change, which' was coming very quickly. Not only was that the opinion of those who counted themselves* friends of. Russia, hut ifc was shown in the Russian official press. It was clear that a very great change was inevitable. To the credit of the Russian Government no attempt was made to hush things* up. There was terrible privation in Russia. There was already great* need! of food, fuel, and ordinary necessities such as clothing; and the winter had yet to he faced, which lasted until March. The foreign representatives were* thinking of leaving Moscow, because they could not get enough to eat, and there was lio fuel. The Soviet Government could not give them special permits for food, because the populace* would not stand it. A terrible state of things existed. That could not last, and was bound to result in a* complete- breakdown. The Soviet had not known how to govern. Government was a fine* art, which could he learned* only by experience. Some of the Commissaries did not know their Russia, having spent much of their time in exile. The. wonder was that they had done so well. There was gradually emerging n . Left and -a Right wing, with the* Right longing for something like the old o a pita lis iic system.