RUSSIA'S PLIGHT.
FAMINE AMD DISEASE. (By C»We—Phmi Aasociation-OopTrigfcA.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, November 27. Sir Philip Gibbs, in a message to th« "Daily Chronicle" from Russia, aayi that in many areas tho seed sown is not nearly sufficient for next year's harvest; tJhe hospitals in tho famine area» are practically without medicine; disease feeds on ill-nourished bodies, am? graveyards grow fat owing to the laci of fuel. The hospitals are overcrowded, and being ill-ventilated thi stench is worse than that of the battlefield, with its unburied dead. Few of tlhe patients bad bed coverings. Thcy wore mostly women and children. Tho nurses are hardly any healthier than the patients, but they stick to their task until they sicken and die. Many nurses belong to tho better class who (have been degraded under the new regime. In Kazan itself there ia not) much sign of the famine. The opera is crowded every night, and Soviet officers and clerks move about warmly clad and cheerful. It is only by going to the outlying villages that the great human tragedy is seen.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17315, 29 November 1921, Page 7
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