STRICKEN RUSSIA.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 August 1910, Page 3

STRICKEN RUSSIA.

PANIC STRICKEN POPULATION

GOO TOWNS INFECTED

COAL FAMINE INEVITABLE

LBV KLECTRIO TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT [per tress ASSOC4*«ys.JI (Received This Day, 0.30 a m.) ST. PETERSBURG, August 2(5.

The total number of ca'us of cho iora in Russia has .e.i-bec 1 . Itt'J.ROP Directly it attacks a village th; inhabitants become panic stricken, and flee carrying infection elsewhere.

In some places children are left to starve by the side of the corpses. Five hundred and seventy towns and villages are infected. Coal mines are deserted and a coal famine is inevitable.

.Forty-five per cent. of. tho population in the Don district are stricken.

I? 0 UMANIAN PRECAUTIONS.

(Received This Dav, 9.30 a.m.) BUCHAREST," August 26. Tho Roumanian Government has abandoned the army manoeuvres as a precaution against tho cholera outbreak in Russia.

OUTBREAK IN AUSTRIA

VIENNA, August 26. Two cases of cholera are report ed here, and in consequence tiraffi on the river Danube is closed.