TRAGEDY IN SIBERIA.
DEATHS BY STARVATION. FORCED INTO CANNIBALISM. SOVIET AND A RISING. (By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 10 a.m.) NOME, June 6. Three hundred natives, of Indian Point, Siberia, died of starvation last winter. The survivors ate their comrades. Officers of the motor ship trade reported this news on arrival here. The famine is the result of the Soviet's action. They feared an uprising and took the natives' firearms and brought them to an island in Bering Strait. A Russian school teacher crossed the frozen region for medicine for Russian officials who were ill.— (A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 133, 7 June 1926, Page 7
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