PETROGRAD TO-DAY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14041, 26 April 1920, Page 6

PETROGRAD TO-DAY.

"Piermarini," tho corresponde London "Evening News," who, personal risk, penetrated into B« and saw the workings of Bolsh the spot, describes in his foot! the two aspects of" life in Peto; briliant sham and the grim real; says:— The theatres are full. Yes; the-thousand privileged citizens} a pleasant evening millions aM are suffering and-starving. A visit to the suburban parte inhabited by workmen, or, stul excursion to the country clwj grad, provides the most striKM to the still brilliant capital. This false brilliance is largely,' fact that Russia's wealth is n< hands of the chiefs of the, movement—and they have nf tact to hide from the great.)? they squander the riches they," at the price of the ruin of toe laid- „ , Ji,, Of all the sights of PetrogW" that impressed me the most ** ber of funerals and of palaces b into hospitals. Eeligwus,!" 1 been abolished in Russia; W» of the funeral cars' passes.su variably sees mixed up witM lowers a bearded man in am marching at the back of tuet is the priest who, without sact? or ikons, takes to the place « the numberless victims of -tw ; -) demic. l filial üßt the largest part of W»} carried away in lorries, «»<£ pitals or from the private popular suburbs, where fan* lack of hygiene are more.« tragic. „< 'ite This is the real reverse off* Petrograd, of the of the%pacious central MU«g real grim face of ft»» «g The very value of the * changed. .W«»* £ sia has a mentality one that possessed »* war when we were trenches, and in our most *"* Eat the whole ration, wr, time a shell will to bits. Look with mj scattered remains o1 ■» possibly may be yowg ty is in the.grip, of l 'fZ^ e 'jt» This I Relieve to be I" 3| all the disasters fc» chak, Yudeniitch, and Jg»g| I firmly believe tha^ja fied history, ?*I hn. to. work and ■&*£dlM a ndisnot.getong'tf bßs a in the Soviet **s&*■■&* lised that V"&*Vi»Ja ably better to st cK with an its to^&m masters are a thousand *i.« nlrl ones. __»>*«^^n