A CITY OF DEATH

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 272, 19 November 1919, Page 5

A CITY OF DEATH

VIRULENT.TYPHUS. IN, EETRO-

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(Tho Tiin*»B Service

, HELSINGFORS, Nov. 17. ■"A. deathlike stillness broods over . Pefcrpgrad," . Th.-v. Times' s correspon.ldent'says. "A .competent observer who .-escaped, on November 11th relates how, a few,inhabitants sire to be seen .'.hurrying phantom-like through the streets, ..mostly ( putty-faced women and.: children, with an old : man. -.. Those t present ..pictures of the ...deepest I despair. VThe arrival of the frost has dealt :the' last b10w...t0 the vanishing hopes •of ijrelief. Mercenaries ; imported a virulent variety of typhus, and thou--sandsiiOf starred and weakened people tAxe-d dying]daily. The. latest prices of vfuQd.mcJuda)bread at;.3.5Q. roubles per Vlb, butter at 1800 roubles, horseflesh •tat. WO,\ ■ other flesh, .believed to be ; ,human, at 100, and herrings at 80. .GoJf.ee,. sugar, and. clothes are unobtainable, j T<he. Red Commissaries live Jtissu^ioflsly. r. Their women are cover- -. qd with furs aild diamonds ,and attend •r.euitertain.TO.ents amidst the city's ifagggdy:"