Stricken Russia

Hokitika Guardian, 11 May 1922, Page 4

Stricken Russia

A IltfFt/Glcii TRAIN. Gli'iCADTtn. EXPICRIftNCES. . An American worker in the famine area, writing i'roin Russia to Miss Margaret Thorpe of Sydney, tells of the acute sufferings of the refugees while trayclling from the 'Obdulovka district to Tukostah. When the writer joined them the stricken people had been three weeks travelling, and it would be another week before they reached the end of their journey, feardly a day parsed without the cleath of one or more in the

long row of box cars. •Typhus, ami other diseases caused by hunger and insanitary conditions take their toll on all refugee trains,” the writer states.. “A bait was made at ii.uziiUdc, yyhicli has suffered greatly through the failure of the crops, and . is considered to be one of the worst towns in the female area. The Society of Friends is working there, and feeds about one hundred thousand children. Three-fourths, of this number are fed by the AmericariFriends. The 'Government contributes to tie overland expenses at the society.. There are IMOO star-ring children in llm/.nluk, and only ISOO are being fed regularly. Cases of cannibalinn have Wen officially confirmed, and the starving people devour corpses from the cemeteries. In Orenburg there are more Ijtari .‘IOO,OOO starving children. The A. 15. A. is working in this section Imt as elsewhere it can only deal with a small of ills,