SUFFERING IN RUSSIA
TYPHUS AND HUNGER. DROUGHT RUINS THE CE*OPS. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) MOSCOW, October 9. Drought has caused the failure of the crops and a shortage of butter and eggs, necessitating instant relief for 350,000 starving children in the Ukraine, where 4,000,000 peasants are going hungry.
The Soviet voted £1,250,000 for food and relief works.
Typhus is adding to the people’s sufferings.—United Service.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20536, 11 October 1928, Page 9
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