RUSSIAN FAMINE
PROFESSOR ATKINSON'S REPORT. APPALLING- CONDITIONS. Prcss Awooiaticm—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association, SYDNEY, May 2. Professor Meredith Atkinson, of Melbourne, who has returned from a visit to Russia, thinks it will bo ten years before Iho economic recovery of Russia is feasible. Tho Soviet Government is indlicient. and is hampered by the famine relief work. Famine and disease have spread over thousands of square miles of country. Ho sleighed along roads which were lined with corpses in the evening, and in the morning had seen whore Lubes had keen, stolen for fond. Ho estimated that probably 5.000.000 Russians would die this summer.—A. and N.Z. (table.
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Evening Star, Issue 17958, 3 May 1922, Page 6
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108RUSSIAN FAMINE Evening Star, Issue 17958, 3 May 1922, Page 6
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