STARVING MILLIONS

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10961, 25 July 1921, Page 5

STARVING MILLIONS

EXODUS FROM RUSSIA MADDENED MOHS CLASH WITS MILITARY. TROTSKY MAKES A THREAT. By Telegraph—Pros? Assn.—CoTvrri-rht. Australian an»- N.Z. r ab!u Association. (Received July 21. 5.5 pmA LONDON. Julr 23. Th** ‘‘'Daily Express’ 7 Riga correspondent >tates that the famine is increasing. Thirty million neople in one Kone, after eating cats, - and rats, are now fleeing iTotu their homes in a desperate search for food. The'-e is a general migration m three directions —one to Siberia, one to the Caucasus, and the third and largest towards Moscow. Stores of cattle and grain are being raided cn route. Hordes of hungerstricken people stormed passing trains, completely disorganising toe traffic. The Bolshevik authorities, growing hysterical, called out regiments to protect the cities against mobs of hungry country folk. Fighting has commenced between troops and maddened mobs. Elsewhere the country folk refused to give up their surplus of food, which the troops divided. Foraging parties endeavoured forcibly to seize produce for tho cities, where there is chronic starvation. Tho situation at Get tong is beyond Soviet control. . Lenin has issued a proclamation to all Russia urging an increase of production, otherwise complete exhaustion will result. The Government is seeking to cancel all foreign orders for coaj, naphtha and other products and divert all available funds to purchase food. Trotsky threatens that if the army is deprived of food he will Toin tho exodus and become the advance guard of an invasion on Western Europe.