FAMINE STRICKEN RUSSIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 397, 11 August 1921, Page 5

FAMINE STRICKEN RUSSIA.

SOVIET IMPOTENT.

DEMANDS BY SLAVES OF YESTERDAY.

(By Electric Telegraph .—Copyright.) Received August 11, UO p.m. LONDON, August 10. The Daily Telegraph publishes a poignant letter from a Russian correspondent at Moscow, stating:— What a pity you could not have seen Ivameneff, nervous pale and haltingly admitting to a meeting of the people whom the Bolsheviks tried for three years to destroy that the Soviet was impotent to deaf with the famine. Remember, the Government did not call the meeting, the , slaves of yesterday met and demanded it, ami such was the Bolsheviks’ panic that they had to comply.' Hence tho creation of the nonpolitical committee, which has sent out an international appeal. Although they are now forced to accept assistance from those whose destruction they sought hitherto, the Bolsheviks have not changed their essentially malignant nature.”—A. and N.Z. cable.

TERRIBLE STORIES RECEIVED.

PARENTS DROWNING CHILDREN

Received August. 11, 10.40 a.m. WARSAW. August 10. Terrible stories come from Sara toff where parents are drowning their children to save them from starvation.—A. and N.Z. cable,

APPEAL FOR FUNDS. Received August 11, 10.40 a.m. LONDON, August 10. The Imperial War Relief Fund has issued an appeal signed by the Lord Mayor, Archbishop of Canterbury, and many other notables for help for Russia, The funds collected will bo administered by the Red Cross.—A. and N.Z, cable. DISINGENUOUS LENIN.

Received August 11, 10,40 a.m. LONDON. August 10. The Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent says that Lenin in an disingenuous appeal for help seeks to make it appear to the Russian proletariat that whatever help comes will he by the efforts of the international proletariat and not by the capitalists—A. and N.Z. cable.