THE FAMINE TRAGEDY
STARVATION AND DISEASE.
BERLIN, 2nd August.
Captain Wegner, commander of the first relief ship to reach Russia, writing to, thp newspapers, Bays people are so weak through starvation and disease that they are unable to walk. Wooden houses -are used for fire .rood. Seven cablo cars remain in Petrograd. A short ride costs 80,000 roubles, a pound of butter 22,000 roubles, a pair of shoes 300,000 roubles, eggs cost 2000 roubles each, hairpins 700 roubles each, and a pound of tea 80,000 roubles.
[Before the war the rouble was worth about 25..]
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 29, 3 August 1921, Page 5
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95THE FAMINE TRAGEDY Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 29, 3 August 1921, Page 5
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