CONDITIONS AT MOSCOW.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 16, 26 February 1918, Page 3

CONDITIONS AT MOSCOW.

REFUGE FOR INTELLECTUALS,

CONFISCATION OF PEASANTS’ PROPERTY.

LONDON, Fob. 20,

Tho “Daily Chronicle’s” Moscow correspondent says tho Boisheviki regime is milder there. Starvation is less imminent. It is a city of refuge for the intellgencia. Many officers are selling newspapers in the streets, while others are unloading trucks and sweeping crossings. The proletariat are not faring much better. Tho factories are gradually closing, and unemployment is increasing, owing to want of raw materials.

Men in soldiers’ uniform are making great profit? by selling food at excessive prices after securing the revolutionary committee’s authority to confiscate the peasants’ goods. Peasants are being flogged if they fail to give up their goods. The intelligencia are not seeking palliatives, being convinced that the masses must learn by bitter experience what Boisheviki Socialism means.

“The Times” Petrograd correspondent says that extraordinary stories are coming from Kieff, describing the recent fighting between the ■ Boisheviki, Ukrainian and Cossack forces. Over -000 were killed and 9000 wounded.

A lurid picture includes street battles, bombardment from both banka of the Dnieper, and artillery attack on Petchorsky Monastery, and Boisheviki aeroplanes bombing indiscriminately. Simultaneously wholesale looting went on in the chops'and residences by armed hooligans and soldiers.