SECOND EDITION “ALWAYS HUNGRY.”

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 397, 11 August 1921, Page 6

SECOND EDITION “ALWAYS HUNGRY.”

GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF RUSSIA. By Electric Telegraph .—Copyright. Received August 11, 2.1) p.m. LONDON, August 10. .The Daily Telegraph’s letter from a correspondent in Russia adds: ‘‘Neither lias the [Soviet power to change the machinery,, of their monstrous administration. It food is handed over to the Soviet it means' that the Reds and drone- officials will gel. everything ami the |xior people nothing. Whatever is dune, outside organisations 'must control the distribution, The ■Soviet will oppose this bitterly, but it must .not be otherwise., 1 think the famine has '"given the Bolsheviks the knock-out. At Lenin’s teh. table they are discussing ways arid means of escaping and comparing notes on. foreign places lor an asylum. England is much favoured. Lenin is a wily bird and-, will take good care we do not hang him:. The leal culprits are-sure to leave betimes, and we their unwilling slaves may yet he destroyed by the people’s first, furious onslaught. The tear ol I amino has gone too far, Great territories have become empty ami overrun by weeds. God’s will be done. Forgive my ihcohortmoes, but. 1 am always hungry and depressed. Ido not believe (here is a Govern meal in Russia; the Soviet tyrants simply control the- big cities, several railroads and the little food. The rest is all chaos. Pefrograd special trains are removing (0.000 children from the famine areas,”— A. and N.Z. cable.