CHAOS IN RUSSIA.
“NIGHTMARE OF HORROR.” SHOCKING CONDITIONS. DYING LIKE FLIES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received August 30, 1.5 am. London, August 29. The Daily News dispatched an aviator correspondent, Major Blake, to Russia by air to gain authentic news of the famine.
The first message gives terrible details of what is described as a nightmare of the horror of a ruined civilisation. Major Blake saw millions of refugees flowing ■in a mighty stream from the east to the west —an unending torrent of humanity seeking salvation in the west. They were thin, ragged and starving, tind many were naked children, covered with sores and swarming with flies.
The bqrder towns the refugees were permeated with the “stink” of rotting humanity, and sanitation was non-existent. The refugees were huddling in huts made of boughs and filling old trenches where they fought in the war. Men, women and children, worn out with dysentery, were staggering into foul compounds, indifferent to everything, and dying off like flies. In’Pinsk and other places the hordes had been subsisting on grass soup, perhaps varied with a few rotten potatoes. —United Service.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1921, Page 5
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185CHAOS IN RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1921, Page 5
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