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Everyone is hungry in Moscow and Petrograd, including the people'scommissaries themselves. The daily ration of Lenin and the othercommissaries is the same as that of a soldier in the army or of aworkman at hard labor. In the hotel which is reserved for Governmentofficials the menu is the following: Breakfast--A quarter to half apound of green goat cheese, which must last all day, and tea without sugar.Dinner--A good soup, a teeny piece of fish, for which occasionally adiminutive piece of meat is substituted, a vegetable, either a potatoor a bit of cabbage, more tea without sugar. Supper--What remains ofthe morning ration of goat cheese and more tea without sugar.

0ccasionally sugar, cheese, and chickens slip through from the Ukraineand are sold secretly at atrocious prices--butter, for example, at 140roubles a pound. Whenever the Government is able to get its arms onany such "luxuries" it turns them over to the schools, where anattempt is made to give every child a good dinner every day.