THE RUSSIAN FAMINE
I• 1 ■ * AN APPALLING REPORT. CORPSES USED FOR FOOD. Pies? Association—By Telegraph — Copyright. GENEVA, January 15. Samara reports to the Russian Relief '■ Commission state that the starving people in Buzuluk, having eaten all thei dogs, cats, and other pets, nave been eating i . corpses from the stables, where they were ' stored prior to burial, and have even violated graves. , The whole region is a desert. The 1 children are the chief sufferers. There ■were 114 burials l on Christmas Day. British help is arriving from the Quakers’ Organisation. —A. and N.Z. Cable. SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND. We have received the following subscriptions to the “Save the Children Fund,” to be administered in Russia .under British auspices:— '■/ / Previously acknowledged £lO3 12 6 N.E. Valley Baptiste .. .. 1 6 6 “Sympathiser” 0 5 0 “Widow's Mite” 0 2 0
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18455, 17 January 1922, Page 5
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139THE RUSSIAN FAMINE Otago Daily Times, Issue 18455, 17 January 1922, Page 5
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