FLIGHT FROM PETROGRAD.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 22, 19 March 1918, Page 3

FLIGHT FROM PETROGRAD.

LONDON, March 13. The “Daily Chronicle’s" Petrograd correspondent states that the people have nearly nil gone to Moscow. The population are flocking from the capital. Queues of thousands are waiting for permits to leave. Overcrowded trains are departing all day long. Others are using sledges and many are trudging through the snow. Everything is quiet in the city, which is becoming a desert. Trams are running with difficulty. Owing to the coal shortage factories are closing. Cabs are disappearing. Most of the owners have sold their horses for meat. Under-fed horses are dying in the streets daily. The theatres are almost empty. Motor lorries have been commandeered for the evacuation.

There is no panic and no excitement. Widespread gloom has taken their place. Meanwhile Petrograd knows little of the outside world. Even Russian news is hard to get.