INTERNAL RUSSIA
(USHtAI.IAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. R usso-xorwegian treaty. CHRISTIANIA, Nov. 23. As a result of the Nonvegian-Rus-sian Commercial Treaty, the Soviet ar t . returning large paper mills located licit: Petrograd which had been commandeered and nationalised, to the original Norwegian owners. EATING clay! LONDON, November 23.
Sir Philip Gibbs writing to the London “Daily Chronicle” from Russia, says: ‘'Thousands of Russians are using day, ground up wiih apples and leaves, forming a kind of flour, wherewith to stifle the hunger pangs. AYhat little food there is, is practically tyi--1>" roll usable. I paid 80,000 roubles for two loaves of black bread. Private charity can only be a drop in the bucket. The track of tlie famine runs for thousands of versts, and along this track is the typhus fever hurrying apace. Now that tho winter is in league with the lice, the scenes to lie witnessed in the villages are of the most appalling character.
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1921, Page 2
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