THE FAMINE IN RUSSIA.
TERRIBLE DISTRESS. Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. St. Petersburg, September 10. The famine in Ivamboff is so terrible in its severity that the peasant women bring their children in contact with sufferers from diphtheria, in the hope that they may contract the disease, and so end their misery.
Russian churches, schools, and convents are trying to relieve the distress among the peasantry. The peasants in Orel district are committing crimes in order to escape starvation. The gaols are over full. Hundreds are killed in fights for grain.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8670, 12 September 1891, Page 5
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