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,rORSE THAN HELL. CONDITION IN RUSSIA. AWFUL CANNIBALISM STORIES. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) jJJsjC* (Received 2.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 31. Professor Meredith Atkinson, of Melbourne University, has arrived here. He spent six weeks in the famine regions of Russia. He declared that conditions there rivalled any description of hell. Cannabilism was rife. In several cities bodies were thrown out of houses at nightfall and seized by tsarving peoples, who devoured the flesh. At Saratox he personally heard of a man who killed his wife, and pickled her remains for eating. The crime was discovered and the murdered was shot. Typhus is spreading at an alarming rate. Professor Atkinson is of opinion that the only way to protect the rest of the world is to throw a cordon round Russia and prevent anyone leaving.— (A. and N_. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 78, 1 April 1922, Page 5
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