FAMINE IN TURKEY
"WORST IN THE HISTOIIf OF THE WORLD." Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Washington, July 25. The State Department has official information that tho famine in Turkey is tho worst in the history of tho world. Only 15 per cent, of the normal grain crop was planted, and, when tho railway was opened to Berlin the Turkish leaders confiscated enormous quantities of foodstuffs and sold them to the Germans at exorbitant prices.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2834, 27 July 1916, Page 5
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73FAMINE IN TURKEY Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2834, 27 July 1916, Page 5
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