RUSSIA'S MISERY.
TRAGEDY OF INTELLECTUALS. London. Nov. fi. Tn the Sunday Express the effect of Bolshevism on the intellectuals of Russia is described by Mr. 11. G. Wells, the well-known author, who recently visaed Russia. Mr. Wells explains that the mortality among distinguished learned men is terribly high, and that much of it is no doubt due to the general hardships, but in many cases to sheer mortification, their groat gifts having become futile. "They could no more live 1 in the Russia of Him," lie S ays. "than in a Kaffir kraal." This, he points out, is due not to the actual restrictions, but to the state of utter ruin—the primary Russian fact at present. One effect of this lias been that it has left them isolated from all founts of knowledge. hi' this connection it is interesting to note that the.British, Government has consented to despatch them thousands (./ volumes of standard works published in recent years.-
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 November 1920, Page 8
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