THOUSANDS RUINED
FLOOD AND FAMINE
COSSACKS’ TERRIBLE PLIGHT.
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Receb ad this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, March 16.
It is reported from Moscow that Red planes are now bombing the ice that ■is piled at the west mouth of tlio Kuban River in order to release the iloodwater behind, which is becoming an elemental catastrophe. The llood is causing incalculable losses. It has ruined thousands of acres of the autumn sowings in the rich North Caucasian steppes. It has destroyed forty villages. Thousands of the Cossacks are homeless. An official bulletin issued does nor mention the number of lives lost, but says that special flood lifting commissions have been appointed. There are disquieting reports from the faminestricken districts which mention that cattle are dying of starvation. The peasants in the Valga Basin are grinding for food their seed reserves. The officials declare there is no scarcity of food, but that it has been squandered, They state Siberian peasants misuse agricultural and other machinery, and are tiring leather belting to sole their hoots.-
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 March 1932, Page 5
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