EFFECT OF FOOD SHORTAGE.
BOLSHEVIKS' HUSH-HANDED ACTIONS. Petrograd, Nov. 20. The almost catastrophic position on the war fronts is owing to the food shortage. If not fed, the soldiers will sh'ortly start homewards without awaiting an armistice. Tli<> most trusted troops of the Petrograd > garrison* nro joining the revolutionaries en bloc, while from the Moscow garrisons men have gone to the villages by thousands,'and only a few hundreds remain in the. barracks. Tlio Bolsheviks have introduced drastic house laws.. Poorer tenants are allowed half a year rent free and evictions are forbidden. The Soviet of the Revolutionary Com-, nuttop is personally supervising the removal of insanitary, lodgers to woilthy household*, who are forbidden to interfore with their guests' ways of life under penalty of heavy fines and imprison-, ment.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1917, Page 5
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