FRUITS OF BOLSHEVISM.
DEGRADATION OF CHILDREN.
MISERY IN MOSCOW. Times. . LONDON, April 30. ■L The wretched conditions of child life in Soviet Russia are vividly described by a Moscow correspondent of a Berlin newspaper who has returned from Russia. Thousands of half-clothed' ; children, mostly orphans,. are roaming the streets as beggars and- vagabonds, filthy and diseased. They defy •■:! the Soviet law against hawking and .against persons under 14 years of age trading in the streets. Guards beat them, and sometiroes a child of eight or nine is marched through the streets to prison between huge guards with drawn swords, like dangerous criminals. The prison authorities employ the most intelligent of these children as spies, who pester suspects for alms.and overhear -their; talk. Children steaj everything they can. The moral degradation of boys and girls vis beyond : descripticn. . .■;.:;".- : » : ' '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18388, 2 May 1923, Page 9
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