ATE THEIR COMRADES.
FAMINE-STRICKEN NATIVES. A SIBERIAN HORROR. Received Juno 7, -10.45 a.m. VANCOUVER, June 6. Reports from Nome, Alaska, state that 300 natives at Indian Point Siberia, died of starvation last winter. The survivors ate their comrades. Tho officers of the motor ship Trade reported the tragedy on arrival from tho Siberian coast. The famine is said to be the result of the Soviet's actldn In taking away natives fire-arn)s bocauso tho authorities feared an uprising.
A Russian school teacher crossed on tho frozen waste from the island where the natives were quartered to the ship to obtain medicine for Russian officials who are 111.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16816, 7 June 1926, Page 5
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106ATE THEIR COMRADES. Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16816, 7 June 1926, Page 5
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