RUSSIA.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 170576, 5 August 1921, Page 7

RUSSIA.

HUNGER. STRICKEN PEASANTS, VILLAGES BURNED.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. COPENHAGEN, August. 3. Hunger stricken Russians are setting lire to villages as they evacuate them, and trok io other parts of the country. Trenches have been dug round Moscow against tho masses ot peasants marching thither. Reports are current that the Retrograd garrison has again mntpik’d owing to tho curtailment of rations. The Estlionians are sending- troops to protect their frontiers. They are also establishing stations at which they .will’ feed’ the starving.

TRADE. DELEGATION

ELABORATE LONDON QUARTERS. Received 8.40 p.m., August 4. LONDON, August 3. The Russian trade delegation in .London has taken a new six storey building in the city, containing 400 rooms, where a special Russian bank will tic established. An All Russia Co-operative Society will shortly hold in London an exhibition of Russian products.

GERMANY’S HELP. DOCTORS TO BE SENT. Received 0.20 a.m., August 5. BERLIN, August 3. A committee formed to consider Russia’s request for assistance decided 'that Germany was not in a position to supply foodstuffs, but was willing to devote her highly developed pharmaceutical industry to tibia prevention of tlio spread of disease. It was decided to dispatch live doctors 1 with medical supplies.

EXTRAORDINARY FAMINE SCENES.

United Service. Received 11.5 p.m. August 4. LONDON, August 3. Tho famine is responsible for strange scenes in Petrograd. On the arrival of boats the officers and crews are beseiged by starving Russians, willing to barter goods of the greatest value l’or foodstuffs. In ono instance a- captain received a grand piano for two bags of flour. PAPER CLOTHES. Investigations of clothing which fell to pieces in the laundries established tlie fact that it .was made of paper. It is believed that large supplies of paper suits were imported from Germany.