DOOMED RUSSIA.
LONDON, August 13. According to reports from Moscow disastrous fires have added to Russia’s other troubles. Eighteen oil wells at Baku are aflame with no means of quelling the fires. The inhabitants are evacuating the town. Another fire has destroyed. a large portion of the city of Pinsk. The All Russian Central Committee at Moscow, instead of Imprisoning convicted social revolutionaries and Bolsheviks is sending them to cholera stricken regions to work. The evacuation committee has commenced a systematic removal of a hundred thousand peasants from the famine areas. The Central Soviet refugees have been sent to Poland, Latvia and Lithuania.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18257, 16 August 1921, Page 9
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103DOOMED RUSSIA. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18257, 16 August 1921, Page 9
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