The Russian Famine.
On tbfi 20 h Miy the Rv. AW xinder Francis, with eleven R d C»ws doctors and nur«p«, »! volunteers going at their owi expense, left St. Petersburg fnr th* sent of the war against the famine. The extent (,f this terrible disastc-r is not realised abroad. Imngim seven great provinces togethfr larg." than France pnffeiing all the agonicof starvation and pestilence. Last year no rain fell and no green thing grew. The rpsult to-day i that in (he Eastern Provinces on th Volga six millions of people erf without food out of a total' of 12 millions.
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Manawatu Herald, 13 July 1899, Page 3
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100The Russian Famine. Manawatu Herald, 13 July 1899, Page 3
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