was able to leave Kief and come through Moscow to Riga. When asked about famine conditions in Moscow and European Russia she said that the conditions were quite as bad as reported and that the famine was only the culmination of a series of wretchednesses accompanying the war and_ revolution. In the space of three years she said she had seen 19 changes of government in the Ukraine but that the Soviet had retained its power there for the last two years. Miss Klavin is leaving shortly for Peking.
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