STARVING RUSSIAN PEASANTRY
PEASANTS DEFRAUDED OF RELIEF. AN INIQUITOUS CONTRACTOR. GIRLS PUBLiCLY SOLD. PURCHASED FOR TURKISH HAREMS. Received 27th. 12.20 a.m. St.. Petersburg. Nov. 26. A contract amounting to many millions of roubles to supply the starving peasants with bread na» given to the proprietor of gambling houses, who obtained advances amounting to eighty ti ou-aud sterling and delivered a little rye. Starvation in the Volga district is so acute that peasants are publicly Selling their daughters. Eight girls in one village ,of ages tanging from 12 to i7,«,vere said for from twelve to fifteen pounds each. The majority were sent to the Caucasus. It is believed that they are intended for Turkish harem».
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81894, 27 November 1906, Page 3
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114STARVING RUSSIAN PEASANTRY Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81894, 27 November 1906, Page 3
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