FAMINE IN RUSSIA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11448, 30 January 1918, Page 5

FAMINE IN RUSSIA.

■ REINFORCED BY PLAGUES.. DECIMATING THE POPULATION. MOSS BREAD IN FINLAND. The T imes. Received Jan. 30, 1.1 a.iiT. Potrograd, Jan. 9. Epidemics, the result of malnutrition is decimating the population snd spotted tpyhus.a more dtmgorons plague, is rampant. 1 lie Bolsheviks hiving abolished the public health bureaux there lias oeen no registration of diseases and few doctors remain. Ignorant doorkeepers and cooks are commanding at hospitals and food is frightfully adulterated with an excessive quantity ot straw chaff. Bread, of which only a quarter of » pound is allowed, is irregularly distributed. In Finland broad is made ot moss and sawdust, mixed with small quantities of dour.