STARVATION IS
NOW RAMPANT
IN PETROGRAD
LONDON, April 7 (Correspondence
of the Associated Press).—Appalling
incidents of the tragedy of starvation
in Petrograd are revealed by a writei
in the Ruskoje Slovo, a newspapei
published at Libau.
"Is life at Petrograd really as ter
rible as people and as the newspapers
describe it?” he asks. “It is difficull
for me to answer this question; dif
ficult to return to the exciting and
fantastic moods evoked by hungry
abandoned Petrograd.
"Educated people beg for alms in
the streets and hang around public
eating houses gazing piteously intc
the eyes of those who eat and waiting
greedily in case anyone should leave
some morsel behind.
“Children rummage in the refuse
pits and ravenously devour heads oi
herrings and all the things dispised
even by the hungry Petrograd house
wife, all the things undiscovered even
by the lean, enfeebled Petrograd cats
‘I will not tell of the terrible
judicial proceedings where ten-year
old dehumanized boys admit wit!
sullen cynicism that they deliberatel)
killed a little brother or sister whe
embittered their lives and devouret
all the bread rations. All these thing;
made un the chronicle of daily hap
penings when we still had a press.
"Hjjw do they live who have noi
become wild beasts? They are al
hungry and hunger tortures them all
But each knows that all the others
are hungry and that is why no one
speaks of his hunger. Human suffer
iug has lost its individuality. Wht
will pity me if I nearly die of hungei
when everyone is hungry himself'
Everyone will turn away and say Ir
a surly voice: ‘I, too, am dying.’
“Men and women cease to com
plain. They drop in the streets
through sheer starvation but you sel
dom hear anyone complain about his
hunger, his own torturing enervating
hunger. They all pretend to be busy
v/ith their wonted affairs as though
they had come to an unspoken agree
ment, as though their customary ex
istence were still going on and noth
ing had altered.
"A school girl is running along with
her bundle of books to catch an
electric car. Her dress is hanging
from her body, her little face has
drawn together so that it is now about
the size of a fist. She is assuredly
hungry, but she runs as she used tc
run in days long ago to catch the cat
a though she must run on and on.
“On a garden path a little boy is
playing. His mother calls him anc
gives him a piece of some doubtfu
flour substitute. He eats it very care
fully and collects all the crumb3 anc
returns to his game. Nor dees his
mother groan or sigh, but hurriedli
takes from her little basket a worr
stocking and mends it. Assuredly she
has forgotten the remembrance o:
food, yet she hurries on with he:
work.
“You can feel a strain, an inhumar
effort in the present daily life of Pet
rograd. You feel that everything is
only held together by the power oi
imagination that may cease at anj
moment.
“Petrograd, the doomed city, a city
sick to death.”
FOOD SITUATION IN
BOHEMIA IS SERIOU!
BERNE, April 26 (by Associat.ee
Press). — The food situation in Bo
hernia is so serious that the Czee ho
Slovaks are threatened with famine
writes a correspondent from Prague
That city, the normal population o
which is about 600,000 now has be
tween 900,000 and 1,000,000 inhabi
tants and this sudden influx hai
caused extraordinary difficulties ii
providing food.
The last reserves of flour and othe
bread constituents will be exhauste<
within a few weeks. Coal is so scarci
that the ration is reduced to twi
pounds a day for each family, suffi
cient for the most elementary necessl
ties of cooking. There is utter lacl
of meat. The deficiency in potatoe
is estimated to be nearly 300,000 tons
Rice, coffee, tea and other foodstuff
have disappeared from the country.
The mortality rate at Prague amonj
children under fourteen years of ag
attains the appalling figure of fort;
per thousand, as compared with ai
proximately ten per thuosand in noi
mal times. The mortality rate amon;
child-bearing women has increase
from three per cent to thirty-fou
per cent.
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LAUNCHING OF
BATUEV TO
BE GALA EVENT
VALLEJO, Cal., April 26 (by Asso
ciated Press).—When the 58 officer*
and 1022 men to be assigned to the
battleship California now in process
of construction at the Mare island
navy yard near here, take up theii
quarters on the latest and most for
midable of the nation’s fighting craft
of her class, they will find every mod
ern convenience provided for theii
safety and comfort.
While every known protection will
be provided against mine and sub
marine attack, and naval officers' con
sider the California will be as nearly
impregnable aginst destruction as i<
is possible to build a ship, the crea
ture comforts of the men will include
a dental office, barber shop and a
score of conveniences usually associa
ted with hotels. An electric potato
peeler which can handle 1000 pounds
an hour, electric ice cream freezer, el
ectric food and meat grinder, electric
cake machine with 60 quart capacity
and a .dish washing machine which
. will handle 1000 dishes an hour will
be among the conveniences which
will both speed up and lighten the
work.
Electricity will play an important
part on the great battleship for its
. use will be extensive. The main en
gines of the vessel will be electric
the electric generators driven by
steam turbines of 28,000 horsepower
the steam supplied by oil burning
waicl LUUC UUllUJO. .. ...
handle the ammunition, fire the guns
raise and lower boats and anchors,
steer the ship and regulate the ventil
ating blowers.
The California keel was laid oil
October 25, 1916 and she soon will be
ready to leave the ways. Her sister
ship the Tennessee, building at the
New York navy yard, will be launch
ed, according to official announcement
made by Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Roosevelt, the last of this
month or the first of next and the
California will not be far behind her.
Work on the dreadnoughts wa3
practically suspended during the war
in order that right of way might be
given to vessels more needed and at
Mare island this resulted in a con
centration on destroyer building and
the conversion and repair of naval
vessels for war purposes.
Since the signing of the armistice
the work on the California has been
resumed. Her cost when the award
was made to Mare island three years
ago was placed at $7,413,516.
Her dimensions are: Length ovei
all, 624 feet; breadth, 96 feet; depth
47 feet, 2 inches; mean draft, 30 feel
3 inches; displacemnt at this draft
32,300 tons; speed 21 knots for IS
hours; fuel capacity (normal) 1,901
tons. Her armament will consist ol
twelve 14 inch, 50 caliber, breecl
loading rifles, four submerged torpedc
tubes, twenty two 5 inch rapid fir«
• guns; four six pounder guns for salut
ing, two one pounder guns tor boats
four 3 inch anti-aircraft guns; one 3
inch landing gun and two 30 calibei
guns. The 14 inch main battery gun
are of exceptionally powerful typ
and will be mounted in threes in fou
centerline, heavily armed turrets.
The California is built with a clip
per type of bow instead of the usua
ram. She will be fitted with two cagi
masts bearing fire control platform:
for controlling the firing of the guns
! She will carry high power moto
boats of the hydroplane type. A com
plete carpenter and machine shop
1 with each machine independently, el
ectrically driven, will be provided.
When the keel of the vessel wai
, laid the first rivet was driven by ar
. honorary riveting gang headed b;
’ Senator James D. Phelan as rive:
■ tester.
The launching of the California, th«
: first battleship ever built in a navj
i yard on the Pacific, coast, will be made
a gala event. Already Mare islant
■ has orders to build another super
1 dreadnought and as soon as the Cali
s fornia leaves the ways they will b<
> widened so as to accommodate the
- even larger vessel which Is to be con
- structed. Later a slip for the con
: struction of battle cruisers will bi
i built.
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WAR BRINGS
GREATBENEFIT
TO SALONIKI
•
SALONIKI, April 5 (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press).—The
war has wrought great changes in
this ancient Thessalonian metropolis.
Local merchants have grown inordi
nately rich from sales to the 500,000
British, French and Italian soldiers
quartered here for four years. Every
line of business has undergone extra
ordinary expansion. Occupation by
the allied troops has brought about
great civil improvements in the city
and its environs. The Saloniki area,
which heretofore has been one of the
dirtiest and most unsanitary in Eur
ope, has been made at least habitable.
New sanitary methods have been in
troduced by the British and French.
Disease-breeding swamps on the out
skirts of the city have been drained.
Water systems have been purified and
drainage has been improved. Miles of
new roads have been built. Number
less stone and wooden buildings have
been constructed and a score of mod
ern hospitals established. Hundreds
of miles of telegraph and telephone
lines have been installed, and acres
of arid soil have been converted into
productive gardens.
Only for the disastrous fire of Aug
ust, 1917, which caused $200,000,000
damage, the city and its surroundings
have been revolutionized. No steps
have been taken by the Greek gov
ernment since the great fire to rebuild
any of the devastated area. The ques
tion of undertaking it is one solely of
labor and material. The funds are
available for the work. Most of the
bu.uuu persons made nonieiess oy me
fire are now living in tents and huts
on the hillsides, or in the cellars and
ruins of burned buildings where they
live like rats. No ray of sunshine en
ters their wretched cellar abodes.
They sleep on straw and live almost
entirely on black broad and vege
tables. All are poor. They lack pro
per clothing, shoes and all the ordi
nary oonvenienees of life. The Ameri
can Red Cross is helping them.
At one time the center of learning
of the ancient world, Saloniki today
has little to show in the way of
schools, libraries or academies. Noth
ing except a few broken columns re
main of its ancient stadium, senate,
hippodrome or temples. The few
school buildings and churches are
now filled with refugees. The best
buildings have been converted into
hospitals. The splendid theatres that
existed in past centuries have been
displaced by cheap moving-picture
house. The only structures of merit
that have stood the ravages of
weather and battle are two triumphal
arches built by the Romans. These
are on the main street, which forms a
part of the highway to Contantinople.
The most picturesque features of
the Macedonian capital are its great
defensive walls, and the numberless
Turkish minarets that rise from al
most every part of the town. These
walls present today a really formid
able defense to the city. The min
arets, though little used today, are
reminders of a time when the Turk
' ish empire embraced the whole of
J Macedonia and forced its religion on
r all that came under its authority.
On Saloniki’s principal street on
the waterfront the American flag is
always conspicuous, identifying the
home and office of George Horton, the
,veteran American consul-general who
has spent 25 years in the consular
service. Mr. Horton is considered al
most a native of Macedonia, for he
not only speaks the Greek language
fluently but his wife is a Greek
woman.
Tub and Bhower baths at the Holden
^pool room barber shop. 9-tf
BAYONETS USED
IN MASSACRES
BY BOLSHEVIKI
LONDON, March 22 (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press).—Re
ports of Bolshevik atrocities In the
Perm district which has dealt largely
in generalities now have been sup
plemented by statements of results of
an investigation by Siberian authori
ties which British officials regard as
authentic. They deal with 123 specific
cases of death and torture and the
examination of 52 bodies of persons
alleged to have been killed by
Bolsheviki.
One of the worst cases described
is that of a girl of nineteen years wlfb
was charged in December, 1918, with
espionage. She was tortured by being
pierced thirteen times in the same
wound with a bayonet. She lived,
however, and has made an affidavit to
these details.
One group of twenty-two were
killed at Irbit by Letts and afterwards
the Bolsheviki continued to take ran
som money from relatives of the vic
tims from whom the crime was con
cealed, it is asserted.
At Ekaterinburg eighteen persons
were shot at the sewerage dump on
January 29, last, despite protests of
consuls there, says the Siberian re
port. The consuls were told that the
victims met death in revenge for the
killing of one Malfsheff who lost his
life in a battle with the Czechs.
Of 300 priests in the Perm diocese,
the report says, 46 have been killed.
Two monasteries were pillaged.
Examination of the 52 bodies, the
authorities say, shows a preponder
ance of bayonet wounds in the back
but in other instances mouths were
slit, fingers and hands cut off and the
heads of the victims smashed.
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