THE BOLSHEVIKS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12016, 5 March 1920, Page 5

THE BOLSHEVIKS

United. Press Association —By Klee trie Telgraph—Copyright. Warsaw, March 3 Extraordinary figures are leaking onS stMosccv,', disclosing Bolshevist finance and economic stress in the industrial outlook. The Soviet’*, income in 1919 was approximately forty-eight million roubles, and the expenditure 159 million. The income during the last two years was slsty-two million and the expenditure 304 million. Wages of industrialists have increased 4359 percent since 1913, and the cost of living in some areas is tenfold.

A groat Polish eugj eer who was recently in Moscow, discussing_ trade prospects, describes the condition of transport as hopeless. Sixty per cent of the railway employees died in 1918, and 10,000 others succumbed to typhus during the year ended October, 1919.