THE STATE OF RUSSIA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14609, 20 May 1918, Page 3

THE STATE OF RUSSIA.

DEPLORABLE CONDITIONS AT PETROGRAD. CAUSES OF THE DEBACLE. BOLSHEVIKI SELL COUNTRY TO GERMANS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Received May 20V 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 19. Latest advices from Petrograd, give a deplorable) account of the cbnditipns of life in that city. There is very little food _ and ' the . official rations scarcely sustain existence. Consequently theft and .fraud are rampant. The? small" quantity of provisions in private hands leads to extortionate profiteering. Hams; cost £50 sterling, and a single egg 3s. The city generally is going to wrack and ruin. "...•.' ; Vladimor Bourbeff, a famous Russian revolutionary, who was recently released, from Petrograd fortress, has arrived at Stockholm. In a; 'message to the Daily Chronicle -he sums up- the causes of-Rus-sia's) debacle,, attributing it to Republican weakness ' and Bolsheviki vindictivenessV -The Bolsheviki had a purpose which Kerensky lacked. v . Bourbeg firmly believes that' the Bolsheviki always intended to sell Russia in order to have leisure to' organise Anarchist propaganda. He adds that the Germans even in Bolsheviki Russia are calmly buying banks, estates, ships, and railways. Tlie Bolsheviki have appointed Ganetsjcy to', control National Petrograd. Banks. Ganetsky is a notorious Gei'man agent, and was ones caught red-handed. Bourbeff says he and other revolutionaries now- perceive that the revolution has been a calamity.