RUSSIA.
Starving Millions.
It is reported that nt least thirty million people in European Russia, and Siberia are suffering- from want of food. Mr. E. Wright Brook*, a memlver of tlio Society of Friends, told a:roprescntar live of the "Daily News" a few weeks ago that the present famine was worse even than the disaster of 180l;-92," when tens of thousands of people died- from hunger. Mr. Brooks said that owing to primitive methods of agriculture and an absence of irrigation a.large part of Central Russia could not be trusted to produce crops with a reasonable amount of regularity.
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 65, 7 June 1912, Page 2
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99RUSSIA. Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 65, 7 June 1912, Page 2
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