Petrograd terror

against Allied civilians. Their condition altogether was deplorable. The British were singled out for the worst treatment, being disqualified, outlawed, and arrested, and their property and bank balances confiscated.

The situation in Petrograd is terrible. Anarchy, famine, pestilence, murder, and robbery have become the common terrors of everyday life. Men and women beg to drop dead in the streets from cholera and starvation. The deaths from cholera have reached 900 daily. There is insufficient wood for coffins, and the corpses had to be carted to the cemeteries wrapped in newspapers, and lay unburied for days till the stench became too frightful that the gravediggers refused to go near. Thereupon the Bolshevists issued orders for the hated bourgeoisie class to dig the graves. Red Guards promiscuously commandeered

groups of them in the streets and marched them to the cemeteries, surrounded them with bayonets, and compelled them to dig the graves and inter the putrifying, naked corpses. Many doctors, nurses, and sisters succumbed to cholera, as medicaments were unobtainable.

The lazarettes and hospital wards are in a state of indescribable filth and disorder. The outbreak of cholera started through the consumption of halfrotten fish.

found to be empty, though it was supposed to hold one dozen singlets. There was one small knothole in the case, and this was found to coincide exactly with a small hole cut in the corner of the box. It was evident that whatever had been taken from the box was worked out carefully through the knifehole, and then through the knothole, with never a trace left behind to show that the singlets had been stolen.