FAMINE-STRICNEN RUSSIA.

Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 190, 11 August 1921, Page 5

FAMINE-STRICNEN RUSSIA.

PARENTS DROWN CHILDREN XO SAVE FROM STARVATION. BRITISH RELIEF FUND OPENED. (By Cable. —Tress Association. — Copyright.) . - Hi' 'Received 10.30 a.m.*. LONDON, August 10. The Imperial War Belief Fund has issued an appeal signed by the Lord Mayor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and many prominent people, for help for Russia. The funds collected will be :ulministered by the Red Cross. The "Daily Telegraph." Berlin correspondent states that Lenin, in a disingenuou- appeal for help, seeks to make it appear to the Russian proletariat that whatever help comes will lie by the efforts of tlie international proletariat, not from capitalists.

The Pope in a letter to the Papal Secretary of State, invites Christians of the world to help famine-stricken Russia.

Terrible stories are come to hand from Saratoff. on the Volga, where parents are drowning their children to save them from starvation.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)

A WORLD-WIDE QUESTION.

ALLIES SHOULD HELP,

j. ITleceived 2.\'.0 p.m.*. , TARIS, August 10

The work of the Supreme Council is proceeding so satisfactorily that it is expected the sittings will" conclude on' Saturday, although the experts had not late to-night reached a compromise on i the Upper Silesia question. ! The Council to-day debated the Russian famine. M. Briand suggested that as Russia had helped the Allies they ought to join with America and the others in administering relief through, the Red Cross Society. Mr. Lloyd George said that such efforts would not be comprehensive enough. The Red Cross could not perform the loaves and fishes miracle. Tlie question ought to be considered on a large scale. It was not only a question of Russia—the whole world was concerned. He said he did not admire the Soviet Government, | tint he thought it was. impossible to dis- ' tribute relief without the Government's ' assistance, owing to its control over the means of transport ami the official machinery. It waa not a political, but I a humanitarian question- Unless tho Allies gave help typhus and cholera would destroy more lives than the war.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) FLIOHT FROM FAMINE AREAS. "EVENTT THOUSAND CHILDREN MOVED. ! (Received 2 p.m.) PETROGRAD, August 10. Special trains are removing 70,000 children froirrtiie famine areas.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) IMPOTENCE OF THE SOVIET TO DEAL 'WITH FAMINE. •NOT TO BE TRUSTED WITH RELIEF. (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 10. The ''Daily Telegraph" publishes a poignant letter from, its Russian correspondent at Moscow, stating: "What a pity you could not see Kameneff. nervous and pale, haltingly admitting to a meeting of the people whom the Bolsheviks have tried lor three years to destroy, that the Soviet was impotent to deal with the famine. Remember, the Government did not call the meeting. The slaves of yesterday nwt and demanded it, and such was the Bolshevik tyrants' panic that they had to comply, hence the creation of a non-political committee, which sent out an international appeal.

"'Although now forced to accept assistance from those whose destruction they sought hitherto, the Bolsheviks have not changed their essentially malignant nature. Neither has the Soviet power to change the machinery of their monstrously corrupt administration. If food is handed over to the Soviet it means that the Reds, drones and officials will get everything, aud the poor people nothing. Whatever is done an outside organisation must control the distribution. The Soviet will oppose this bitterly, but it must not be otherwise. I think the famine has given the Bolsheviks the knockout. At Lenin's tea table they are discussing ways and means of escaping, comparing notes on foreign places as asylums. England is much favoured. Lenin is a wily bird, and will take good care we do not hang him in the Bed Square. The real culprits are sure to leave betimes."-

"We. their unwilling slaves, niny yet be destroyed by the people's lirst furious onslaught. I fear famine has gone too far. Tlie great territories have become empty, and overrun by weeds. God's Bill be done. Forgive nvy- incoherences, but I am always hungry and depressed. Don't believe there is a Government in Russia. Tho Soviet tyrants simply control Cue big cities and several railroads. There js but little food left; the rest is all chaos."—(A. aud N.Z. Cable.) SPREAD OF CHOLERA. 130,000 VICTIMS IN JUXY. LONDON, August 10. The Vienna correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that, despite most Strict measures against the introduction of infection from Russia. Asiatic cholera is travelling westwards. Eight cases have already been confirmed in one Polish frontier district. At the end of July there were 1.10,000 choleT'il victims in Russia.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)