PRISONERS OF WAR TURNED LOOSE
FRIGHTFUL PRIVATIONS OF rjjssia: Stockholm, November 26. Advices from Petrograd state that immense crowds of freed Russian war prisoners from Germany were set adrift on the frontier. They are suffering terribly from lack of clothing and food. Most are ill with consumption and dysentery, and thousands are dying on the roadside. • M. Lenin desperately but vainly appealed to the local Soviets for help. Serious political consequences are feared. A French officer from Russia states that a great .number of horses are dying from starvation in the streets of Moscow. The people continue to eat horses and dogs—Reutor.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 55, 29 November 1918, Page 5
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102PRISONERS OF WAR TURNED LOOSE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 55, 29 November 1918, Page 5
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