FAMINE RELIEF FUND.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4404, 21 April 1922, Page 2

FAMINE RELIEF FUND.

However much one may deplore the causes of the holocaust in Russia to-day, no person having any humanity can ignore the piteous cry of starving millions of men. women, and children for food, in order that they may be saved from the awful death by starvation, which has already been the fate of hundreds of thousands, and perhaps millions if all the figures were available, in that stricken land. In our last issue there appeared a report of a lecture by Mr Richards, of the Auckland Russian Famine Relief' Committee, in which harrowing details of the agony of a nation in the throes of starvation and disease were given. To those living in comparative affluence, in a country where money can buy food, it is difficult to realise even faintly the terrible distress in that great land, formerly dominated by Czars and bureaucrats of the worst type, and ultimately goaded for relief into the maelstrom of revolution. Four years of war, and a further three years of blockade, making seven years in all of trade strangulation, coupled with internal disorders of a most malevolent description, have completed Russia’s ruin, and it now remains for the rest of the world to minister to the relief of the suffering. A lecture will be given by Mr Richards in the Central Theatre, commencing at 8.15 p.m. on Sunday, when a most interesting and graphic account of conditions in Russia will assuredly be forthcoming, after which it. is hoped to create an organisation for the raising of funds. In the meantime, the “Gazette” is prepared to receive and acknowledge subscriptions, and forward them to the Auckland Russian Famine Relief Committee.