TYPHUS FOLLOWS FAMINE.
APPALLING SCENES IN RUSSIA. LONDON, November 24. Sir Philip Uibbs, who is visiting the famine regions of Russia on behalf of the. "Daily Chronicle," states that thousands of p'.ople are usin*; clay, ground up with apples and leaves, to form a kind of Hour, with which to stille the panj;s of hunirer. What little food there is is practically unpurcluisable. Ho paid SO.ODO yuiible? for two loaves of black bread.
Private charity f:*n only he a drop in the bucket. Tlio track of the famine runs for n thousand versts, and alonjr the track is typhus hurrying apace now that winter has set in. The neenes lie witnessed in villages visited ivore f'f n most appalling character. — (A. and S.X.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 281, 25 November 1921, Page 5
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