RUSSIA’S TRAGEDY.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 May 1922, Page 5

RUSSIA’S TRAGEDY.

STARVING MILLIONS. PEOPLE AWAIT DEATH. BARREN HOSPITALS By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received May 21, 5.5 p.m. London, May 20. The international committee on Russian relief, of which Dr. Nansen was High Commissioner, issues the investigators’ report on the famine in the Southern Ukraine and the Crimea, where there are over four millions starving out of a population of sixteen millions. The report states: “The land is burnt black and stripped of trees and plants. One sees the straw of roofs used, as food for men and cattle and one hears people tell that they have eaten all the dogs, cats and crows they could get, and even dead cattle, harness leather, and wood furniture. You meet people who have eaten their children and see people lying like skeletons awaiting death. “You see hospitals where the starving and other sick are brought to receive earn, but there are no beds, linen or medicine and often no physician. The patients are lying together on the floor in the utmost misery. You see heaps of dead bod.es, no one having sufficient strength to bury them.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.