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FAMINE-STRICKEN RUSSIA.

(Per R.M.S, Sonoma at Auckland.) San Fqanoisoo, October 24. Correspondence to the Associated Press from St, Petersburg, dated sth October, says:—Acting under information from the Governor of the province of Samara, in Eastern Russia, the Minister of the Interior has officially proclaimed famine conditions in five more districts in this Government. This means that the bad harvest has already made itself so keenly felt thait speoial medical and relief organisation is necessary, It is likely that the list will be added to from time to time during the winter. The Minister also published a detailed report of the relief given to seven Siberian districts. Forty thousand roubles were assigned. Present indications are that little information about the famine will be published in Russian newspapers which is not given not by the Minister of the Interior. • The papers have been given to understand that incorrect or coloured articles about the famine will not be tolerated, and Russian editors know when they have been warned.

The bad harvest in portions of Siberia last year and this year have bad the effect of turning a part of the tide of Sibariaa emigration back into Russia. According to an official source, nearly 78,000 emigrants and nearly 20,000 men eent by the peasant communes to spy. out the land went to Siberia between Ist January and 19th September, and nearly 20,000 emigrants and 12,000 envoys returned. In addition 'to'-'famine, a circumstance that deters emigration and occasions the return of many is the .exhaustion of the available farm land. It is a fact not fully understood abroad that parts of Siberia are already fully occupied. This is true of all really good and accessible land in Western Siberia.

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 270, 15 November 1901, Page 2

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FAMINE-STRICKEN RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 270, 15 November 1901, Page 2

FAMINE-STRICKEN RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 270, 15 November 1901, Page 2

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