INTERNAL RUSSIA.
I RUSSIA’S STARVING MILLIONS. | A DESPAIRING REPORT. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) GENEVA, Jan. 26. Dr Nansen made a despairing report to a meeting of the International Committee for the relief of the Russian famine. He said millions of people could have been saved if the Governments, last September, had done what was asked of them. Now it is too late. Millions must die whatever the Governments did. He warned the relief agencies of the. necessity of choosing simple foods, liecause rich foods would kill the people whose digestions were weakened by famine. Grain was the best food. They were confronted with an awful dilemma in distributing grain, because they needed it both for sowing and feeding htc people. Sowing was essential to prevent a worse famine next year. A terrible choice must ho made in selecting the particular districts to be saved. Nansen mentioned that the total gifts of the Government to the Red Cross amounted 0£1,220,000 sterling, sufficient only to feed two million people.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1922, Page 3
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174INTERNAL RUSSIA. Hokitika Guardian, 28 January 1922, Page 3
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