RUSSIAN AFFAIRS.
A TERRITORIAL ARMY.
THOUSANDS STARVING. THE SCOURGE OP MALARIA* Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. RIGA, August 14. The Soviet Union’s executive committee has issued a decree establishing a territorial army to supplement the regular troops. All citizens are made subject to four years’ service. Delegates from the Central Executive Committee have arrived at Moscow from Turkestan, and reported that 387,000 of the population in the Ferghana districts arc doomed to starvation.
The newspaper Invcstia reports that the malaria scourge is rapidly increasing throughout Russia, a number of villages being completely wiped out.
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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15315, 16 August 1923, Page 5
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