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Horrors of the Rusal&aFa^aol*a Corpse la Every Houso. ALWnjße&th. ' Mea Beooao Wild. Boasts. Wellinotoh; Saturday. Later letters from St. Petersburg show that the telegrams ,whioh pass censorship do not depiot half the horrors of the famiho in the provinoe of Lamara, Government offloiala who went to administer relief to the village found it deserted/bufl nearly every house oontained a corpse, and in some of them' were found several, In Peurea people could be seen praying for death. Suicide, however, is infrequent, no matter how torriblo the situation. Large numbers of German colonists in the famine strioken district live in boles in .the earth W warmth and eat bread made of wild hemp seed. The famine; is bhanging tho peasantry into wild boasts.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4073, 26 March 1892, Page 2
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125Latest Mail News. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4073, 26 March 1892, Page 2
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