save themselves from starvation; but for a speedy
return to normal conditions foreign help was es-
sential.

The other question we touched was that of mu-
nitions. I expressed some surprise that they
should be able to do so well although cut off from
the west. Krasin said that as far as that was
concerned they had ample munitions for a long
fight. Heavy artillery is not much use for the
kind of warfare waged in Russia; and as for light
artillery, they were making and mending their
own. They were not bothering with three-inch
shells because they had found that the old régime
had left scattered about Russia supplies of three-
inch shells sufficient to last them several years.
Dynamite also they had in enormous quantities.
They were manufacturing gunpowder. The car-
tridge output had trebled since August when Kra-
sin's committee was formed. He thought even
as things were they could certainly fight for a
year.

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