THE RUSSIAN FAMINE
STORIES EXACCERATEO. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received August 6, 2.-50 p.m.) LONDON, August 5. Advices from Helsingfors states Soviet representatives declare that the stories of the famine are exaggerated. They admit that the population in a number of districts are fleeing t-o other provinces in search of food, but deny insurrection at Moscow and other towns or that general mobilisation was ordered.
Meanwhile sensational reports continue to be received. Hordes of refugees, chiefly from the Governments of Samara and Saratoff, are fleeing both west and east.
Reports declare that military cordoDs round Moscow are using poison gas to prevent fugitives entering the city.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16497, 6 August 1921, Page 10
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