FAMINE IN ARMENIA
PEOPLE IN DIRE STRAITS. SHOCKING REVELATIONS. CORPSES AS BUTCHERS’ MEAT. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, March 21. . The Daily Mail’s Constantinople correspondent describes the desperate straits of the famine-stricken inhabitants of Bolshevist Armenia, giving as evidence the grim spectacle of armed Reds encircling the cemeteries at Erivan to prevent the disinterment of corpses, as an organised attempt has been discovered to' sell them as butchers’ meat. Numerous arrests have been made. Wolves are harrying the outlying villages. Two soldiers on outpost duty were devoured. Pood riots are breaking out in the towns.—A. and N.Z. Cable. -
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18511, 23 March 1922, Page 5
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