RUSSIA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 14 September 1921, Page 5

RUSSIA

HORRORS DESCRIBES)

STARVATION AND DISEASE

BY CASLB—PRESS ASa.OCUTIOf^-COPYRfr.TT'rv

LONDON, Sep. 12. A special correspondent of The Times, describing the horrors of the Russian famine, declares ftiat in extent and severity" they far exceed anything hitherto experienced in Europe. The little flour obtainable is eked out with bar!:, leaves and clay. Insects are crushed into paste—even anytning capable of mixing., with flour. When the last morsel of flour has gone, and • everything ,is sold at any price, the people migrate, imagining many may reach the fertile soil of Siberia, or even India.

Dumb despair is written on every face. In the famine towns one f?ees corpses of men and women who died of starvation and disease. Crowds of emaciated, starving people ,and Innumerable children are herded together, their only shelter beino: string of rags stretched on tin]<*s. They are tpo exhausted and lislless io move Mfinns of trancr^-tipor these miserable beings are T»itifullv inadequate.