UKRAINE AND CRIMEA.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16739, 22 May 1922, Page 4

UKRAINE AND CRIMEA.

TERRIBLE PICTURE OP FAMINE. By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright | Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. j LONDON; May 20. ! Tbe International Committee on I Russian Relief, of which Or Nansen is 1 lie high commissioner, Jins issued the j investigators’ report on the famine in southern Ukraine and Crimea, where i there are over four millions staging j out of a papulation of sixteen millions. | Til© report mo coeds : “'Hie land J- | burnt black and stripped of trees and i plants. One sees the straw of roofs * used as food for men and cattle, an., hears people toll how they have.eater, all the dogs, eats and crows they could | get, even dead cattle, harness, leather, wood and furniture. You meet people j who have eaten their children. You j see people dying and like skeletons, -j horses awaiting death- You see hos- j pita Is v here starving people and other 1 sick ones arc brought to receive care, ! but there are no beds, linen or modi- ■ cine, and often no physicians, the ; patients lying together on the floor in (he utmost misery. You sec neaps, or ! dead bodies, no one having sufficient i strength to bury them.”