RUSSIA.
THE FAMINE
FORTY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
STARVING
Bt 'J>!e<{t»pb.—rr?js .*«wt».ttOrt..~Ct<p*ri£ht. : St. Petersburg, December 10. PniNCE Lvoff. after travelling 800 miles in the Samara and Kazan provinces, reports that the villagers are without either food or fodder, and thai they are eating bark and Straw and selling their live stock for the price of the skins. He estimates that forty millions of people urgent!} require Stale assistance.
Tim famine in Russia hat now been itt existence for more than two year*, ami itwas reported last year that ;HUJOe.OOO people were affected. In Septerrtliw last it w*< reported that the people in the province of Samara bad become so demoralised by Iffltk of food that many parents' had abandoned their children. Then last month it we* stated that in the Volga, district parents wore opctily rolling their daughters, *rfrom £12 to £15, Cm the. Turkish harem's in the Caucasus. The Russian Government, has granted several largo sum*'for the relief of the fi mine-stricken people.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13355, 8 December 1906, Page 7
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