FAMINE IN RUSSIA.
MILLIONS DEMAND FOOD. RIOTS IN LENINGRAD. COLLAPSE, OF THE BUDGET. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 12 noon.) RIGA, March 18. Soviet newspapers speak of serious famine conditions in parts of Russia, accentuated by the inability of cattle- ! raising districts to provision the cities, [especially Leningrad, where riots are i reported to have occurred. i Angry crowds demanding food are J being dispersed by the police. , M. Rykoff, refusing the application for j a subsidy for the metal industries, stated (that £4,000,000 must be added to the famine funds for starving millions of ■■ people whom the Government was ; already supporting, whilst an over-esti-mate of the harvest yield had caused a collapse of the Budget.—(Reuter.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 66, 19 March 1925, Page 5
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