RUSSIA'S TROUBLES.
_. _ > , USES, FAMINE, AND DISEASE. i '- idy GsSfo-PnM Aiiwociation—Copyright.) ("The Time*.") LONDON. August 13. According to reports from Moscow, disastrous fires.have added to Russia's other troubles/ Eighteen oil wells at Baku are burning, and there are'no means of quelling the fires. The' inhabitants are evacuating the town. Another fire destroyed a large por- ' tion of the'city of Pinsk. The All-Russian Central Committee at Moscow,' instead .of imprisoning con* vioted social revolutionaries and Menahevika, Is sending them to the cholerastricken regions to work. The Evaluation Committee has commenced ..the eystematio removal of ' 100,000 peasants from thafamine areas! The Central' Soviet is sending refugees to Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania, -
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17225, 16 August 1921, Page 8
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