RUSSIAN FAMINE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 301, 14 September 1921, Page 5

RUSSIAN FAMINE

' WORSE THAN ANY EXPERIENCED • *IN EUROPE BEFORE “DUMB DESPAIR WRITTEN ON EVERY FACE” fiy Tfllegranh—P.recs Ai’sooiatlon—Oonyrlffht (Bee. September 18, 7.25 p.m.) London, September 12. "The Times” special correspondent, describing the horrors of the Russian famine, declares that in extent and severity they far exceed anything hitherto experienced in Europe. Little flour is obtainable, and is eked out with bark and leaves, and clay*and insects crushed into a paste even—anything capable of mixing with flour. When the last morsel of flour has gone, and everything \ sold at any price, people migrate, imagining that many may reach the fertile Boil of Siberia, or even India. Dumb , despair is written on every face. In the famine towns one seowthe corpses of men and women who died of starvation and disease, crowds of emacifited and starving people, and innumerable children herded’ together, their only shelter being strips of rags stretched on poles. They are too exhausted and listless to mote. The means of transporting these miserable beings are pitifully inadequate.— "The Times.”