TERRIBLE STORIES FROM SARATOV.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18322, 12 August 1921, Page 5

TERRIBLE STORIES FROM SARATOV.

PARENTS DROWN THEIR CHILDREN. WARSAW, August 10. Terrible stories come irom Saratov (on tho Volga), where parents are drowning their children to save them from starvation. —A. and N.Z. Cable. GREAT FIRE AT PINSK. ' WIDESPREAD DAMAGE. WARSAW. August 10. A great fire occurred at Pinsk (Western Russia). Over 300 houses and churches have been already destroyed. The forests outside the town" are afire.—A. and N.Z. Cable. RELIEF MOVEMENT. APPEAL IN BRITAIN. LONDON. August 10. The Imperial War Relief Fund Committee has issued an appeal signed by the Lord Mavor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and many other notable people asking for help to Russia. The funds which are collected will be administered by the Red Cross.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE POPE’S SYMPATHY. ROME, August 10. The Pope in a letter to the Papal Secretary states that he has invited the Christians of the world to help famine-stricken Russia. —A. and N.Z. Cable. A DISINGENUOUS APPEAL. LONDON, August 10. The Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent says that M. Lenin, in a disingenuous appeal for help, seeks to make it appear to the Russian proletariat that whatever comes will be by the_ efforts of the international proletariat and not from the capitalists.—A. and N.Z. Cable. AMERICAN RELIEF WORK. PRELIMINARY STEPS TAKEN.. WASHINGTON. August 10. jJßeccived August 11, at 8.45 p.m.) Mr Hoover, in accepting an invitation from the Swiss president to send a representative to- tho International Conference of Relief Societies regarding aid for Russia, pointed out that the famine in Russia was beyond the resources of all the available private charities in the world, especially in these times of economic hardship. “Relief,” Mr Hoover says ? “even were -funds available for food, involves the rehabilitation of transportation, agriculture, and industry, necessitating measures which again are beyond the reach of charity.” Mr Hoover adds that each national relief society should proceed independently. The American relief measures in Russia are proceeding. The preliminary steps are being taken and he believes that the actual relief work will soon begin. The American prisoners in Russia are beginning to return to Riga. —A. and N.Z. Cable.