The following interesting notes on peasant opposition the Soviet are translated from the "Russian Echo," to which paper they were given by a contribute nocently" back from Vladiv ostok.
A prominent cooperater, recenyly returned from Soviet Siberia and reports us the following:
Popular dissatisfaction with th Soviet power began in Febri when the Soviet made the first distribution ut bread. In March the regulations of Soviet Siberia were published and the discontent grew. The population was to _receive a daily ration of bread. The owners of cows had to deliver an enormous amount of milk factories, and were to keep for themselves only two cows. In the regions where there were no factories, they were to deliver butter instead of milk. Apart from this the peasants had to thresh corn and deliver it to the government mills. This alone was the of great excitement amidst' the people. The bread ration pounds per person, served but to increase it. Till the Jvionth of May the trading of ictuals under the government reulations went smoothly. The price of a pound of butter was 350 Romanoff roubles and 900 in Soviet roubles. The Soviet tried by means of government ce-operators to draw all raw materials such as furs, wool and leather from the peasants. This of course led to a partisan war against the Soviet in the Altai region.
Everything that was taken by the Soviet during the conquest of Siberia, from the towns and the Koltchak government, was sent to Russia. The villages have not received anything from the Soviet. On the contrary, they have lost a considerable lot.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.