RUSSIA: Flood

The estuary of the Neva, which flows through Leningrad, former Petrograd, née St. Petersburg, gulped down vast quantities of fresh sea water from the Gulf of Finland, submerged three-quarters of the city. Ten lives were lost. Then the estuary spued back the water; life in the city became normal, but damage was done to the extent of millions of dollars. A cyclone caused the flood.

“Hands off China” was the latest cry of the Moscow Bolsheviki. Damning the governments of the U. S., Britain, France, Italy and Japan as “bourgeois robbers” and referring to them as “arch-Hooligans,” mass meetings, processions, demonstrations accused them of partitioning China among themselves. Effigies (of Charles E. Hughes and others) were carried in some of the parades and subsequently were “publicly burned.”