FLOODS IN RUSSIA
HE AV Y D A MAG E IN CAUCASIAN
STEPPE
THOUSANDS HOMELESS
CATTLE DYING OF STARVATION (U.P.A: by Elec. Tel. Copyrights . (Received March 17, '7 p.m.) LONDON, March 16. It is reported from Moscow that Red planes are bombing the ice piled in the western mouth of the Kuban--' river in order to release the flood-; |||| water which is becoming a catastrophe, causing incalculable „ losses. The Hoods have ruined amis of acres of autumn s o wing Jin j tin* rich North Caucasian steppe, and , have destroyed titty villages. TliqiXS- M | anils of Cossacks are homeless.. ,Tiie , ofhehil bulletin does not mention the- pjj numher of lives lost', but says that a special flood lighting eonimissi3p||l : been appointed. Disquieting reports from ihe fam-ine-stricken districts mention tha<mjc|| cattle are dying of starvation. Peasants in the Volga basin are grinding their seed reserves.
The officials declare there is no scarcity of food, but it is being squandered. Siberian peasants misuse . agricultural and other mackinery, using the leather belting to sole their hoots.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11592, 18 March 1932, Page 5
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