HORRORS OF FAMINE.
MISERY IN RUSSIA. WORST IN HISTORY. ~ APPALLING SUFFERING. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Received Sept. 13, 7.25 p.m. London, Sept. 12. A special correspondent of the Times, describing the horrors of the Russian famine, declares that in extent and severity they far exceed anything hitherto experienced in Europe. The little flour obtainable is eked out with bark, leaves and clay. Insects are crushed into paste—even anything capable
of mixing with flour. When the last morsel of flour has gone, and everything is sold at any price, the people migrate, imagining many may reach the fertile soil of Siberia, or even India.
Dumb despair is written on every face. In the famine towns one secs corpses of men and women wh<j died of starvation and disease. Crowds of emaciated, starving people and innumerable children are herded together, their only shelter being strips of rags stretched on poles. They are 1 too exhausted and listless to move. Means of transporting these miserable beings are pitifully inadequate.—Times Sendee.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1921, Page 5
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