HORRORS IN RUSSIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18089, 13 May 1922, Page 12

HORRORS IN RUSSIA.

BODIES' STOLEN FOR FOOD. A pessimistic report of condition* iD' Russia was brought to Australia by .Pro fessor Atkinson, of Melbourne, who to turned to Sydney on the Sonoma after a visit to Russia". Ho thought it would be ten years before the economic re covery of Russia became feasible. Th<> key to that recovery was the improve j niont of the transport system, which was , in a state of chaos. The dancer of | typhus was even greater than that of j hunger. As a Government, the Soviet was extremely inefficient, and hampered | the work of famine relief organisations Moscow was short of food, and he had seen' men shot whilo running away Wrth bread. Beyond tho capital famine and disease spread over thousands of square miles. Ho had sleighed along roads lined with corpses in the evening, and passing the same way in the morning, had seen where the bodies had been stolen for food. Probably 5.000,000 Russians would die this summer. It w-as evident to all observer? that tho Russo-German pact was imminent. Ho thought the soundest economic policy to observe with regard to Russia was to help the peasants to their feet, as they wore opposed to Bolshevism, and had every reason to be so-