FAMINE IN UKRAINIA.
WHOLE COMMUNITIES DYING. BACK _0 BARBARISM. RELIEF PROGRAMME READY. (By Cable—rress Association.—Cop_rl__t.) (Received 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 17. A conference of the American Relief Administration and the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, held in London, has drawn up a programme for famine relief, in the Ukraine, costing three million dollars, of which the Jewish Committee will'provide half, as the Ukraine sufferers are mostly Jewish. Dr. Hutchinsbn, who. investigated the conditions in the Ukraine, reports that whole communities have sunk to the level of barbarism owing to their sufferings. They are dying en masse, stolidly like animals. Others are eating anything, from animal refuse to human flesh.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 91, 18 April 1922, Page 5
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