TERRORS OF RUSSIA.
CANNIBALISM IN CITIES. SPREAD OF DISEASE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received April 1, 5.5 p.m. New York, March 31. Professor Meredith Atkinson, of Melbourne University, has arrived here in the Mauretania. He spent six weeks in the famine regions of Russia, and he declares the conditions rivalled any descriptions of Hell. Cannibalism is rife in several cities. Bodies thrown out of houses at nightfall were seized by starving people, who devoured the flesh. At Saratov he personally heard of a man who killed his wife and pickled her remains for eating. The crime was discovered and the murderer was shot. Typhus was spreading at an alarming rate. Professor Atkinson expressed the opinion that the only way to protect the rest of the world would be to throw a cordon round Russia and prevent anyone leaving. Professor Atkinson is going to Canada to lecture.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1922, Page 5
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147TERRORS OF RUSSIA. Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1922, Page 5
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