INTERNAL RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1921, Page 3

INTERNAL RUSSIA.

»ITST j» AD * N AND N. 7.. CABLE ASSOCIATION. f AWFUL CONDITION'S. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 27. The ‘ Daily News” despatched an aviator correspondent, Major Rlake to Russia by air, to gain authentic news of the famine. The first message gives terrible details or what are described ■is a nightmare** horror of ruined civilisation." Blake saw millions of refugees following in a mighty -dream from east to west, an unending torrent of humanity seeking salvation in the west Thin, ragged, starving, many were naked. Children were covered with sores and swarming with Hies. Border towns receiving the refugees were permeated with the stink of rotting humanity. Sanitation is non-existent and the yef i i (fees were huddling in huts mad a of l toughs and filling old trenches where they fought in the war. M?n, women and children worn out with dysentery, were staggering into foul compounds indifferent° to everything, and dying off like flies. In Pinsk and oilier places hordes had been subsisting on grass soup, perhaps varied with a few rotten potatoes. R EFITSED PER M TSSTON. ' LONDON, Aug. 29 A non-political committee which was .appointed by the Soviet including Count Leo Tolstoy, to visit various European countries with a view to giving a true account of famine conditions, and appeal for relief, has now been refused permission to leave Russia.