RUSSIA'S MISERY
BRUTALITY ACCENTUATED BY FAMINE GOVERNMENT MAINTAINED BY TERROR. (BMITIB PRESS ASSOCIATION.—CQPTRIdHTO (ACSTRAUAN - NEW ZBAMND CA»l« ASSOCIATION.) (Received August 16, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, 15th August. The Daily Mail's Warsaw correspondent reports that the famine in Russia is only accentuating the appalling brutality of the Bolshevik rale. Womai commissars in 'Moscow, doped, with cocaine, are killing through sheer lust of _ blood. Government is only maintained by the regime of terror. The peasants are rising In the Ukraine against the Government's corn requisitions. Refugees trekking to Poland are gaunt and emaciated spectres, many of whom have been practically without food for a fortnight. Butter costs 15,000 roubles a pound, bread 60,000 roubles, j and potatoes 2000 -roubles.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 40, 16 August 1921, Page 7
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116RUSSIA'S MISERY Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 40, 16 August 1921, Page 7
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