TERRIBLE STATE OF AFFAIRS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3599, 11 October 1920, Page 5

TERRIBLE STATE OF AFFAIRS.

| MORTALITY IN RUSSIA. FAMINE, PESTILENCE, AND DEATH. AN APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE. Received 9 aim. LONDON, Oct. 9. Professor Zeidlir, former head of the of the Petrograd Red Cross, and now refuging in Finland, has appealed to the American Red Cross for help for the Petrograd population", - which is a rapidly decaying one. National ised woodparks arp entirely occupied in manuafacturing making three thousand monthly, which are insufficient. The starflung mortality is due to the starvation diet, the entire absence of fat giving faces of waxlike pallor, and Petrograd resembles a city of dead people_ The residents consume enormous quantities of substitutes for tea and coffee and drink plain water in order to fill their stom- I achs, causing bloated and distorted i features, and dropsy and pufflness. j The city is indescribably filthy. The principal mortal (diseases are spotted fever, dysentry, and smallpox, and the hospitals and clinics are overflowing. The Ministry of Health recently ordered the mobilisation of all doctors to combat disease, but as tbe troops are infected with spotted fever and intermittent ■ typhus, the situation is thus complicated, necessitating the three largest hospitals b£ing devoted to 1 the sefle use 'of the troops. Improper feeding greatly increases mortality in the hospitals, where black bread, frozen cabbages, and herrings form the principal diet. Those very ill are receiving horse flesh beef tea and gruel. No eggs or milk are available. The doctors declare that scientifld life has been destroyed and it is impossible to obtain chemicals, medicines, or surgical instruments. ! N-A-Z-O-L, i'!he scientific preparation which never fails to relieve coughs colds, sore throe*'*. «ud chest troubles. 1/6 buys 60 doses.

1/6 buys 60 doses.