FAMINE-STRICKEN RUSSIA.
LAST DESPERATE APPEAL.
INSTANCES OF CANNIBALISM.
MILLIONS CANNOT BE SAVED.
By Telegraph—Press AflßOoiatiou—Copyright. (Received 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. Feb. 17. Dr. Nansen, tho famous Arctic explorer, who is High Commissioner for the relief of famine distress in Russia, lecturing in the Central Hall, Westminster, said that would be his hist desperate appeal to the British Government. How could other nations stand callously aside and allow 20,000,000 Russians to die of starvation? The audience shuddered when Dr. Nansen declared he had the names of scores of Russian fathers and mothers who had killed their children, not in order to end the children's suffering, but in order that the parents might eat and live. They must be prepared to bear that cannibalism was spreading within an area of 1100 by 600 miles of the Volga district. 19,000,000 out of 30,000.000 were in danger of death by starvation. Ten millions would inevitably die whatever was done now.
A Reuter's message from Stockholm states that the Swedish Parliament has voted 1,000,000 kronen, approximately £60.000, to the Russian Famine Fund.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18019, 18 February 1922, Page 9
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179FAMINE-STRICKEN RUSSIA. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18019, 18 February 1922, Page 9
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