INTERNAL RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 November 1921, Page 3

INTERNAL RUSSIA.

tUSTUAI.IAN ANX N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. CAPTURE OF KIKFF. HEI-SINGFORS, November 19. It is reported that Ukrainian rebels have captured Kieff. PH lUP GIBB’S TERRIBLE PICTURE. LONDON, Nov. 21. | Sir Philip Gibbs writing about con- \ ditions in Bussia coneludes: —“Now j the snow has stop|>ed the movement of tlie refugees. Tims if llosc-cnv is all they have seen, careless observers saw no famine, hut directly one comes to Samara, Satatoff, Simbirsk, or Ka.tan, oile finds there are stores of thousands of deserted children and many are wearing only a ragged shirt, and looking like monkeys, with their grey wizened faces, watchful eyes, and clawlike hands. They are now being fed once a day by the British-Amei iean ♦relief organisation. 1 write, hoping to touc h the heart of the- world, and to rouse it from its damnable, deadly indifference to the fate of millions. Unless the Powers act quickly, leaving polities aside, then hundreds of thousands of people must perish. Western Europe will then be punished by a pestilence and it will deserve it.”