THE FAMINE SCOURGE IN RUSSIA.
WAITING FOR PEOPLE TO DIE. SCRUPLES OF MUSSULMANS. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— (Received February 27.10.15 p.m.) St. Petersburg, February 27. Pathetic stories are told of lack of food, fuel, and clothing in the famine districts. The Zemstvos (councils) of Sembiresk province have no funds, and are unable to open free kitchens for •the starving. The Bashkires (Mussulman pastoralists, partly nomadic) of the Orenburg district decline to accept aid from Christians, fearing that they would, if they did so, be compelled to adopt the Orthodox Greek religion. The authorities at Tobolsk decline to open kitchens until the peasants begin to die.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14928, 28 February 1912, Page 7
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