INTERNAL RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1921, Page 2

INTERNAL RUSSIA.

RUSSIAN HARVEST FAILURE. iiisvnujis AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LONDON, August 19 The “Times” Riga correspondent reports that the latest figures from Russia show that the harvest is twice a« bad as the previous worst, and also that there is a smaller area cultivated. In eight provinces the crops completely filed and sixteen milion inhabitants are affected. The deficit is over 36,000,000 poods for immediate needs. On August sth there were a milion poods also in seed. Ukraine and Siberia are the, only possible sources of relief inside Russia.' The Soviet at Volga offered a prize of a million and a half roubles for the best hunger bread, containing a maximum of 12 per cent, of cereals the remainder bark, edible wild p an s and other substitutes. RUSSIAN DELEGATION REPORT. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Aug 20. The Russian Trade delegation in Lon -lon states the harvest in the provinces outside the famine areas should bo satisfactory considering the difficulties and old-fashioned methods of- agriculture in vogue. White Russian provinces can export to the famine area, forty thousand tons of potatoes and- eight thousand .tons of corn. The total cholera cases since January were 71,871.

RUSSIAN NEWS. (Ro-cived This Day at 8 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, July 19. A Ro* al message states Hunacharsky, the Soviet Commissary of Education, de dares crowds of children, deserted by tlieir parents are living on the hanks of the Volga where there are many deaths, due to starvation. Some parents were drowning their children rather than watch their gradual starvation. Communists in 'districts untouched by the famine have begun flight, fearing violence from wandering, starving masses.

RUSSIAN HOYutOJtS

UNITED SERVICE TELECRAMB. . - ‘ (Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) ■ LONDON. August 20. * Heartrending stories of Russian famine and disease continue to reach London" based on stories of hordes of refugees ’ flocking to the Russo-Polish frontier Mr Thompson wires alarming accounts to the “Daily Mail” that a terrible catastrophe is inevitable. The Lenin-Trotsky regime is ending in the

general ruin. Russia has broken down and is faced with sheer anarchy. The transport system is paralysed and factories and mines are closed. The “Times” Riga correspondent states reports continue conflicting but terrible news is arriving regarding conditions in Volga) region. Great areas are empty and Silent. Starving people / are wandering hopelessly searching for grass. The unburied dead are lying in heaps. Unmentionable horrors are rampant.