RUSSIAN FAMINE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 22 May 1922, Page 5

RUSSIAN FAMINE.

INVESTIGATORS’ REPORT. ress Assn.— By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, May 20. be International Committee on Rusi Relief, of which Dr Nansen is High nmissioner, issued an investigators’ ort on famine in Southern Ukraine I Crimes, where there are over 00,000 starving out of a population 16,000,000. The land is burnt black and stripped trees and plants. One sees the straw the roofs used as food for men and tie; hears people tell that they e eaten all the dogs, cats and »s they could get—even dead cattle, ness, leather, wood and furniture. "You meet people who have eaten heir children see people lying ike keletons horses awaiting death, ou see hospitals where the starvng and other sick are brought to eceive care, but there are no beds, inen or medicine and often no ihysicians. Patients are lying toether on the floors in the utmost nisery You see heaps of dead odres no one having sufficient trength to bury them ”