RUSSIA’S PLIGHT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18350, 14 September 1921, Page 5

RUSSIA’S PLIGHT

HORRORS OF THE FAMINE. STARVATION AND DEATH. A CORRESPONDENT’S STORY. Prtaa Association—By T»l«graph—Copyright LONDON, September 12. (Received Sept. 13, at 7.25 p.m.) The special correspondent of The Times, describing the horrors of the Rusian famine, declares that in extent and severity they far exceed anything hitherto experienced in Europe. . The little flour obtainable is eked out with bark, leaves, clay, and insects, which are crushed into a paste. Anything capable of mixing with flour is used. When the last morsel of Hour is gone, and everything has been sold at any price, the people migrate, imagining that many may reach the fertile soil of Siberia or even India. Dumb despair is written on every face in the famine towns, where one sees the corpses of men and women who have died of starvation and disease. Crowds of emaciated starving people and innumerable children are herded together, their only shelter being strips of rags stretched on poles. They, too, are exhausted and listless, and the means of transporting these miserable beings are pitifully inadequate.—Times.