THE FAMINE IN RUSSIA
MORE HOPEFUL NOTE. SCORCHED FIELDS RESOWN. GOOD HARVESTS IN SOME PARTS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received August 12, 8.55 a.m. LONDON, August 11. Tho Daily Telegraph's Berlin correspondent says that there is a more hopeful note in the Russian situation. Rains during July improved the outlook in the Samara Government, resulting in a marked fall in the price of flour. In some parts of the Kurst Government the scorched fields have been sown afresh, with good results. The despatch of grain from districts with good harvests has already begun on private initiative. The crops are very good in Turkestan, where a levy of corn has been made for the starving people. There have been excellent harvests in the Tsaritzyn Government, due to rainfall-
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14722, 12 August 1921, Page 5
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