RUSSIAN FAMINE
SOUTH RUSSIA’S PLIGHT. FOODSUPPLIES EXHAUSTED CHOLERA AND BLACK PLAGUE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. HELSINGFORS, August 31. It is reported that the starving populations at Tambov, Voronezh, and Orel are in open rebellion. Troops which were sent to these places refused to fire on them. The food supplies at Odessa are exhausted, and the population is faced with certain starvation. , Cholera and black plague are rampant.—A. and N.Z. Cable. RELIEF COMMISSION DISSOLVED. INTRIGUE AGAINST SOVIET ALLEGED. COPENHAGEN, August 31. „ The Riga correspondent of the Politiken says that the Soviet dissolved the Relief Commission because it included bourgeois representatives. It also believed that the commission was . under the influence of counter-revolutionaries and Trench politicians, who are endeavouring to utilise the famine weapon to overthrow the Soviet. It is believed that the real reason is that the commission refused to become the Soviet’s tool.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18340, 2 September 1921, Page 5
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