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Show TELEGRAPHIC A GRAVE SITUATION. Commercial Ioireioii In GcriiiHiiy Clovcrumeut Aid lLiUHuded. (oiicrnl Crop Fuji nrr In Rn-Mtt Rn-Mtt A i-'muluo i'citred. New York, 4. The London Morm ny I'ost of Oct. 2;fd, has a Bor-lin Bor-lin dispatch of the 22nd, auying that the depression of trade in felt eo keenly by the industrial classes that the government has boon requested as a means of preventing acute dia-trces, dia-trces, to resort to a measure success fully adopted in the lust two ware, namely the establishment of loan banks. The government has not as yet shown much inclination to accede to the request. Serious distress is anticipated an-ticipated among the industrial claw.es during the coming winter, and ap-prehi ap-prehi : iions are also entertained of "ft crisis iu financial circles. The 8:ime paper also says: Russian correspondents to German newspapers give distressing accounts of the un-parallfled un-parallfled failure of this year's harvest. Never before, it is asserted, has the failure been so ureal in Russia, both in geographical extent and in comprehensiveness com-prehensiveness with regard to the crops affected. The Russians are still familiar with the distress result- nig truin Jailing crops by their experience ex-perience of tliu Saniana f;imine. Tnat, however, wns merely a local famine; the present is general. The entire cultivated zone is deprived of its expected harvest from Orel to the Crimea, and from Tambour to Todalsk it is the same, and there is no prospect of help, for there is no one to help. All are groaning under the samo load. In other years if there is a failure of crops it attacks only one species, be it cereals or roots, or grass; but this year all the crops have suffered alike. |