RUSSIA.
A TERRIBLE STATE OF AFFAIRS. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 1. Owing to famine and disease in Kazan, in Middle Russia, parents have sold their daughters for from six to twelve guineas each. The ShishkofF Zemstvo Relief Commission state that hundreds of thousands of people are on the verge of starvation, and two millions are dependent on charity. ,■
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8349, 4 February 1907, Page 5
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57RUSSIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8349, 4 February 1907, Page 5
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