File 1341/1921 Pt 1 'Khorassan Intelligence Summaries 1921-1922' [‎623r] (893/1080)

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oi -11 epidemics is in the quarters of the poor where,
truly, the buildirr^s do not answer to the demands of man
which the inliabitants from a sense of hopelessness do not
maintain in a state of cleanliness and tidiness.
himliar abnormal conditions of life have carried off
prematurely may young victims. This has been ascribed
by the borgeois es being due to natural causes
Orener lly speaking, the most serious attention must be
given during this summer to the housing question as mu«h
on account of the labouring classes as on account of
Soviet institutions. A very early move must be pide to
reestablish the amenities of life in the towns.
The economic crisis continues to exercise the minds
of the Bolsheviks and probably will go on doing so for
some time to eorae. Kvery arrival from Turkestan and
Transcaspia has the same story to relate of the want and
misery endured by the populace. One witness testifies
to t 1 b ^famine conditions in the country west of Ashhabad
and goes so far as to say that the Turkmen are selling
their children for food, though this ls probably a gross
exagger a tion.
The Bolsheviks by dint of organized requisitions and
communal feeding of the people are striving to evert a
catastrophe. Accounts from Central Asian towns re If te how
all cereals are taken over by the Komis sax s concerned end
allotted to State bakeries whereto people are summoned
by the ringing of a bell. Comnent on such a state of
affairs in human history would be superfluous to the
point of being banal.
The paper tes an article prefaced by a quo to. t ion from
a speech by Lein in which he said ’’Only an agreement