When Russia becomes a and truthful observers are permitted to travel freely in the Marxist Pars {there will be startling revelations embarrassing to the subsidised press. Lord Newton who "visited St, Petersburg (miscalled Loningrad) at the latter half of last year writes that in this once pro-sporous city are now:—burnt houses, gutted houses, deca} houses, broken winder hanging doors,' peeling paint, ' crumbling plaster, and rotting stucco. Some of the streets are impassable; others are encumbered with mounds of rubbish resembling barricades and pitted with deep holes; in others there is a luxuriant growth of grass. The concluding portion Lord Newton's experi of St. Petersburg contains the follow-impression which the casual visitor to Leningrad will carry away with him is the omnipresence sistance of propaganda. trove, ow jo te tue!"
All energies of the Bolshevik Government seem to be concentrated upon this particular form of activity. Propaganda seems to surge round Leo and envelop the individual like flood. Proclamations, demonstrations, the Press, advertisements, literature, the arts, and education all serve the same purpose, and are utilized with untiring energy and ingenuity.
Let me show how Bolshevi have solved the housing problem Odessa (one of the most flourishing towns under the old regime) now] gradually falling into ruins owing to the infiltration of its foundations by the sea, which Communist renee has been unable to arrest.
taireases inundated ftth correspond to outside dilapidation, and in the big towns the apartments. swarm with human ant-heaps in an odious promiscuity. The absence of all new building since revolution and the seizure of the best estates by the has led the authori the smallest available surface. No more private homes, but enormous barracks where Communism heaps gre: up its vietima in defiance of all hygiene and all morality..." The rooms are divided into "corners" in' which whole families lodge; a frightful babel in which obscenities mingle with the erying of babi comes from these Marxist stables.
According to the "Izv tigers have made their appearance in the Caucasus; the "Krasmaia Gazette" announces the incursion of bears the environs of St. Petersburg; and according to the "Pravda," a band of wolves hurled itself on the citizens of the first Socialist Republic at Viatka, and, to crown all, the street of Karl Marx,
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