RUSSIA: Proletarian Shambles

FORTY MAN-EATING WOLVES WILL BATTLE WITH SAVAGE DOGS THE SPECTATORS TO BE GUARDED BY HUNTERS 50,000 TICKETS ON SALE NOW

When such lurid posters appeared in Moscow last week, throngs rushed to trade tchervontsy for tickets. All mobs love gore, but must very generally do with out it nowadays. Therefore, the wolf fight prospectus which was distributed in Moscow last week was pawed by eager humans, blood curious, licking their chops: The Co-operative Association of Moscow Hunters will present a magnificent spectacle in which 1,000 rabbits will be chased and torn to pieces by 200 hounds. . . . Eighty foxes and an equal number of dogs will fight in a pit. . . .

Finally the 40 man-eating wolves especially captured in Siberia, will battle to the death with 40 savage imperial borzois. . . . Educational, and instructive. . . . The first proletarian spectacle of its kind since Roman times. . . . Next day the Soviet news organ Isvestia sternly announced that no such "spectacle" would be permitted, quoted from the law forbidding prizefights in Russia "because the sport is not conducive to the invigoration of the working masses, but tends to arouse their baser emotions."