RUSSIA STARVES.
A TERRIBLE PICTURE.;
‘•SOVIET GOVERNMENT REELING..;.. ,Y, (A. and N. Z. Cable.) .. . „ ....... LQNDOISr, Augiis£, 4*. _♦
'Tho Times’ special correspondent says that'the - Russian* famine pee-: sents a catastrophe recalling the darkest ages. Though probably there •will be cord enough.if properly distributed to keep alive the .starving millions, the disorganisation and lack of transport, the revolt., in Ukrainia and Siberia, and _ ’ the paralysis of economy and initiative through Soviet misrule make it am-.; possible to check disaster. The •ramshackle : structure of the , Soviet Government is reeling. The population is panic-stricken, resulting in .chaos. •» < * <y: n-j j.. a. r), A drought prevails in tne famine area, and cholera is t Widespread. ■The peasants,' men, women and .children, are eating grass, making; cakes of acorn flour, and eating animals, bones and offal.. Panic-stricken hordes wander about the country, sickening and dying in- their tracks— *.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14729, 6 August 1921, Page 5
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