RUSSIAN FAMINE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18316, 5 August 1921, Page 5

RUSSIAN FAMINE

HUNGER-STRICKEN PEASANTS.

MARCHING ON MOSCOW.

MUTINY IN PETROGRAD

Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright COPENHAGEN. August 3.

Hunger-stricken Russians are setting fire to their villages as they evacuate them and trek to other parte of the countrj. Trenches have been dug around Moscow against the masses of peasants marching thither. Reports are current that the Petrograd garrison again mutinied owing to the curtailment of rations.

The Esthonians are sending troops to protect their frontier. They are also establishing stations at which they will feed the starving people.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

STRANGE SCENES IN PETROGRAD. LONDON, August A. (Received Aug. 4, at 11.5 p.m.) The famine is responsible for strange scenes in Petrograd. On the arrival of boats the officers and crews are besieged by starving Russians willing to barter foods of the greatest value for foodstuffs, n % one instance a captain received a grand piano for two bags of flour.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

GERMANY’S ASSISTANCE,

DOCTORS AND MEDICINE DESPATCHED.

BERLIN, August 3. , (Received Aug. 4, at 11.5 p ; m.) The committee formed to consider Russia’s .request for assistance decided that Germany is not in a position to supply foodstuffs, but is willing to devote her highly developed pharmaceutical industry to the prevention and spread of disease. It was decided to despatch five doctors with medical supplies.—Reuter.