FAMINE IN BESSARABIA.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 186, 5 April 1902, Page 4

FAMINE IN BESSARABIA.

Tin.. uis'mT :! Jstresßiog reports as to thft aituarion '■! the vi)lfijio population of Beesarabu. woo art almost reduced to, starvation by the iaiiure of too lust fca'-vce', continue to si'fivo in b>l. Petersburg. The gres-.-csv misery op--pears to prevail in cht- distinct oi idoroki, where the peasants are obliged to gob rid of their cattle at aey price before they starve to death for want of forage,: Persons who have visit<sd the wretched, hots of the peasants report that the. unfortunate ate utterly deati-; tute, clad ir> mp, <»* t-hun suffering, from typhus, without furniture or, household nr fits wait iee, Cuddled together' in a loath-muidW.ie >4 iSdni, and living, only on hocus of ki;-.‘.'v; bwiied in water or other equal!? j«r'-vsioleaoine food.; The peasants who s*'''ii i *poPß«i3 a sufficient i means of subsistence are very few, and nearly all are in want of seed or vegetables foi spting sowing and planting, and of money to procure them. In certain parts the number of horses I has decreased by bO per cent., and of sheep by 60 per cent. Owing to the want, of forage, in some villages horses have, been sold at u rouole each, in others as many as 70 per cent, of the farmers have lost all I no: r horses.

Typhus fever la afcroady ravaging the whole cnonrry, .o i there is reason to tear that scurvy will shortly appear as, an inevitable result of the mis- table food by iho »ui of which thn famiueefncki'h peon!:- maimgo to prolong their wretched existence. /