STARVING NATIVES
A SIBERIAN TRAGEDY CAUSED BY SOVIET REPORTS OF CANNIBALISM VANCOUVER, June 6. Reports from Nome (Alaska) state that 300 natives at Indian Point, Siberia, died from starvation last winter. The survivors ate their comrades. The officers of the motor ship Trade reported the tragedy on their arrival from the Siberian Coast, The famine is said to be the result of the Soviet’s action in taking away the natives’ firearms because the authorities feared an uprising. A Russian school teacher crossed on the frozen waste from the island where the natives are quartered to the ship to obtain medicine for the Russian officials who are ill.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19584, 8 June 1926, Page 7
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