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Show : Impending Famine in Russia. Stepniak in Free Russia. It will be the most terrible on record more terrible even than that of 1S40. The crops have been destroyed or almost destroyed de-stroyed in twenty-six provinces of European Russia. In six provinces more than one-half of the districts-are aiiictcd with the same calamity. In thirteen provinces the Larvett promises to be middling. sufficient for th needs of the populauon,leavii.g, no enrplus. Only in the northern Caucasus, in the few northern provinces and in the three districts ;f the southeast, the harvest is expected to 7 be above the average. Signs of acuta famine are already visible; thousands of peasants are starving upon grass boiled in water, people are dying in the streets, andparents advertising their chik'.reu for sale iu order nut to see them die before their eyes. - - |