MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 July 1922, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION FAMINE IN RUSSIA. LONDON, July 17. A Geneva economic expert said Dr Nansen reports an appalling famine situation at Kieff, Karkoff and Odessa, which refugees are crowding. At the railway stations bodies are collected daily. Some are half eaten by rats or tlie starving population. Tbe rich agricultural country between Odessa and Poltava is uncultivated. Houses are abandoned after the peasants have eaten the thatch poofs. Some cities have lost eighty-five per cent, of their population. Cannibalism is so common that tbe authorities have ceased to prosecute. THE BISLEY MEETING. -LONDON, July 15. At the Bislev Rifle Meeting the Elcho Shield was won by England with a score of 1(132. Scotland was second with 1612. The new streamline bullet was used and gave great satisfaction. It Is very pointed and tapered at the hack instead of blunt as the present service bullet, the object of the new design being flatter trajectory and greater range. The Swiss have been using the streamline bullet with great success. The United States is carrying out experiments. ft is believed the new bullet with the same elevation will give a range of over 5000 yards compared with the 3100 yards of the service bullet.