PLIGHT OF RUSSIANS
APPALLING PRIVATIONS CANNIBALISM ALLEGED. LONDON, November 7. The Geneva correspondent of the Daily Mail states that the International Entente Against the Third (Communist) International has published allegations of appalling privations and cannibalism in Russia. A woman declares that the roads are strewn with corpses, and there have been at least 10 cases of cannibalism in one district. Children cannot be allowed to go into the streets alone. Other refugees have declared that human flesh has been sold in the markets of Kharkoff.
Whole villages in the North Caucasus are deserted, it is declared, and the population of Tomishbeg has been halved. All the dogs and cats have been eaten.
A miner in the Donetz region declared that his children were dying of starvation, not having seen bread for a month. People in Kuban are eating leather.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22114, 18 November 1933, Page 14
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