23 JUNE 1928, Page 23

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(Continued from page 942.) It is a strange story that M. London, the well-known French journalist, tells of Russia to-day in Red Russia (Methuen, 5s.). It is not all bad by any means, but there is a ghastly picture of the " lost children "—in one of whose haunts was found a corpse of a man wiz° had been robbed and murdered and two thousan4 skinned rats. According to Russian official figures quoted by the author, cost of living is 157.2 (presumably taking 100 as pre-War standard), and wages are 8 per cent. less than before the war. So much for prosperity under Communism.

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