BOLSHEVIK FALL
ONLY QUESTION
OF SHORT Til
STOCKHOLM, April 10 (Corres
pondence of the Associated Press).—
Passenger traffic on Russian rail
roads has ceased ostensibly because
of the spread of spotted typhus but
reilly because there are no locomo
tives to spare and because there is a
great shortage of fuel, according to
I. Hessen, the former editor of the
Petrograd Rjetsch. Thanks to heavy
bribing he hat\ just managed to leave
Petrograd which he said was in des
perate straits.
"At the Putlioff Works, where form
erly 15,000 men were employed only a
very few are now to be seen,” said
Mr. Hessen to the Associated Press.
“Sabotage prevails. Locomtlves can
not be repaired nor constructed. The
only one the Bolsheviki have is valued
at four million rubles.
“In Petrograd a piece of firewood
costs four rubles, bread 20 rubles a
pound, meat 30, sugar 120 and butter
tlto same. Maxim Gorky, the novelist,
has at his dispositon 10,000,000 rubles
for printing books and supporting
authors and tutors but no books can
be printed as long as paper is five
rubles a pound.
"Why the Bolshevik regime has not
fallen puzzles everyone, particularly
the Bolsheviki themselves. Time after
time they have expected their fall and
prepared to quit, but each time some
thing happened that improved their
chances. Last autumn when Perm was
taken by the Czechs, when armed
forces threatened from the Ukraine
and the Narva and British warships
approached in the Baltic every one
was sure it was the beginning of the
end. And then, instead, came the in
vitation to Princes islands.
“Not even one per cent of the pop
ulation is in favor of Bolshevism. Bol
shevik troops fight without knowing
why, but continue for fear of being
shot if they disobey. If given an op
portunity they desert at once. An ex
ample of this was the action of what
was considered a model regiment in
Petrograd. The men, 3,000 of them,
were sent from their barracks to the
railway station to entrain for the
Narva. When the train arrived there
were just eight men who had obeyed
instructions to entrain.
“If there is no intervention soon
pure anarchy will rule Russia.
Trotzky and Lenine are gradually
being pushed aside and real criminals
will succeed to the places of power.”
CINEMAPHOTOGRAPHY
DEVELOPED BY AIRPLANES
LONDON, April 10 (Correspond
ence of Associated Press).—Aircraft
development during the last few
years has thrown open to the moving
picture man an entirely new field. It
may be some years yet before flying
comes within the means of the or
dinary person as a mode of travel but,
through the film he may experience
some of the artistic joys of aviation.
Already a certain amount of aerial
cinema photography has been carried
out successfully—enough, at least, to
measure its possibilities. In the near
futre, it is expected that magnificient
mountain scenery will be photo
graphed from aircraft, not only in
Switzerland and in the United States,
but in Abyssinia, the Himalayas and
other less-explored regions of the
world.
The whole of a wonderful flight
from, say, San Francisco to London
or from London to India or to Aus
tralia, may in time, be shown to the
public.
SWEDISH PARLIAMENT
WANTS MORE AUTHORITY
STOCKHOLM, April 28 (by Asso
ciated Press).—A movement is under
way in the Swedish parliament to
place the government of Sweden on a
more democratic basis by so altering
the constitution as to give parliament
direct control of the nation’s foreign
policy. A committee of the Riksdag
has proposed that the contents of all
international agreements and treaties
should be communicated to parlia
ment, and it is expected that these
recommendations will be adopted.
* Under the constitution as it now
stands, control of foreign affairs is in
the hands of the king and his min
isters.
SEAWEED TO BE USED
FOR CONCRETE BLOCKS
LONDON, April 8 (Correspondence
of Associated Press).—A novel use
has been Found here for seaweed.
Ccmbined with crushed slag and
other heretofore neglected waste min
eral products, it is used to make a
kind of concrete out of which are
being fashioned building bricks and
blocks. The seaweed acts as a bind
ing and strengthening element.
Arrangements are being made to
put up a large number of houses com
posed entirely of thes blocks, and it
is predicted that the material, owing
to its cheapness, will aid in solving
the housing problem.
Not only the foundations and walls,
but the doors, window frames and
mantel-pieces are to be constructed of
the new concrete. The houses are to
be made in sections and bolted to
gether. The window-frame is a new
idea in itself. The glass, In one large
pane, slips into a slot and the edges
of moulding are then turned over, so as
to grip it. To mend a broken window
will be a simple matter and will not
require the services of a glazier.
It is said that dwellings made of
the concrete will be warm and thor
oughly dampproof.
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