RUSSIA’S TRAGEDY.
PEASANTS IN REVOLT, CERTAIN STARVATION. TERRIBLE DISEASES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Helsingfors, August 31. It is reported that the starving populace in tne Tamboo, Voronezh and Orel ar& in open rebellion. The troops sent refused to fire on them. The food supplies at Odessa are exhausted and the population is faced with certain starvation. Cholera and black plague are rampant.
Copenhagen, August 31. The Riga correspondent of the I’olitken says the Soviet dissolved the relief commission because it included bourgeois representatives, also believing the commission was under the influence of counter-revolutionaries and politicians who were endeavoring to utilise the famine weapon to overthrow the Soviet. It is believed the real reason is that the commission refused to become the Soviet’s tool.
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Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1921, Page 5
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