The news from Russia indicating that the shortage of foodstuffs is creating a serious position for the Bolshevik Government is probably as severe an indictment of Bolshevik mismanagement as could well be imagined. The picture of one of the granaries of the world running short of food, owing mainly to the terrible economic conditions prevailing by reason of the sheer ineptitude of the Government, 's appalling. Only the other day we commented on the fact that Lenin and his colleagues had spent more than the national revenue in food for the people, and had committed themselves to a total expenditure seven times as great as the revenue, and now comes the news that the republic is faced with a food cri From being able to export food to other countries, Russia has fallen into a position' where it can longer supply itself." Naturally' the peasantry are only too anxious to hang on to what foodstuffs they' grow, not only because they want, them themselves, but because the money they would receive in exchange for sale is hardly worth the paper it is printed on. With such facts in view the sentence on Miss Sylvia Pankhurst of six months' imprisonment for inciting sedition by urging the formation of a Red Navy, is not a punishment at all keeping with the offence. Com-mirment to a criminal lunatic propriate. asylum would seem more ap-
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