FAMINE'S END IN SIGHT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 173, 24 July 1922, Page 5

FAMINE'S END IN SIGHT.

AN EXCEPTIONAL HARVEST. SOVIET'S CHANGED POLICY. CAN AFFORD TO WAIT. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, July 23. The worst of the Russian famine is over, though foreign help is still needed. The American relief administration continues to feed several millions. Deaths due to famine are estimated at 500,000 instead of 10,000,000 predicted. There ere prospects of an exceptionally bounteous harvest in Russia this year, even in the famine-swept areas. Probably much of it will be wasted, as the weakened peasants, whose stock perished during the famine, will be unable to reap it. The Soviet Government's uncompromising attitude at the Genoa and Hague conferences is due to the prospects of an excellent harvest. Soviet leaders say that Russia can now afford to wait instead of making further concessions to bourgeois Governments. M. Litvinoff, in a statement issued at The Hague, declares that the failure of the conference showe clearly that it is impossible to reach an agreement at any conference. The only possibility of achieving anything is by separate agreements.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)