RU SSIA STARVES.
AWFUL OUTLOOK.
WORST FEARS SURPASS CD. (Times.)'. LONDON, August 19. Tho Times Riga correspondent re ports that the latest figures from Russia show that the harvest is twico as bad as tho previous worst, and also that a smaller area is ~beii!g cultivated. Ija eight provinces the crop has completely failed, and tho 10,000,000 inhabitants are affected. Tho deficit is over 36,000,000, poods, and the immediate needs on August 5 were 1,000,000 poods and also seed. Tho Ukraine and Siberia arc the only possible sources of reliet inside Russia. Tho Soviet at the Volga has offered a prize of 1,500,000 roubles for the best hunger bread containing a maximum 'of 12 per cent, of cereals, and the remainder bark, edible wild plants, and other substitutes.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14741, 22 August 1921, Page 5
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