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RUSSIAN niII.DHKX AS DRTG FIENDS B> Ehxifio Cable.— Outright) (Aust. and 11. 'f.. Cable Association.) (Argus) Me.scow April 0 . Startling revelations were made before a special commission appointed j by the Commissariat of Health to investigate the conditions amongst Russia's homeless children. There are -50,00 P such in Moscow alone, of whom 40 per cent. were found to be cocaine addicts. Dr. Bocharov, Moscow's most noted j pathologist, declares that he found many children spent the equivalent oi from ill to LMO weekly on cocaine. obtaining the money almost entirely by stealing.
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Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 146, 9 April 1924, Page 6
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