Show RUSSIANS fA FACE EI HORRORS or HUNGER Starvation and Death Stalk Through Land Typhus Claims Many MOSCOW MOSCOW- Jan 5 By the Associated Associated Associated Asso Asso- Press Press Russia Russia has begun the year rear 1922 with whit eight months of unspeakable unspeakable unspeakable un un- un- un horror before her and the terrible dread that next summers summer's crops may only slightly relieve the famine At Samara Ufa and Kazan frozen bodies are packed s high high awaiting burial in in trenches which workmen cannot prepare fast enough for the victims of famine exposure and ty ty- ty And every day the situation grows worse American relief workers who originally originally originally nally cautiously placed the number of probable deaths in the famine area this winter at two million now say I that five million is a low estimate and many say the number may reach 1 ten million or oven more It is predicted predicted pre pre- I dieted that the typhus epidemic probably probably probably 1 ably will be the worst Russia has ever suffered I Ione sUiI The Americans are feeding nearly one million children and the British i and various other organizations arc I furnishing nourishment for at least under tho most discouraging conditions I Mr Farrar of the epidemics commission commission commission com com- mission of the league of nations Miss Mary Patterson of the English Quaker Quaker Quaker Qua Qua- ker relief mission and Dr Guertner of the German Red Cross have died within with with- in the tho past week of of typhus contracted in m the famine area Miss Nancy Bobb and William Villiam Kenworthy of the English English Eng Eng- English lish Quaker unit are ill III from typhus at near Sara to ff and Anna Louise Strong of Philadelphia who is associated with the English Quaker or organization organization or- or Is recovering from the same malady In Moscow Colonel Colone Bellof Bell Bellof Bellof of the American relief administration Is convalescing from the disease a at atU U Ufa Typhus is so prevalent throughout all hall of the Volga region and in Turkestan Turkestan Turkestan stan that the soviet government has d stopped all passenger service to an and from those regions George of the British save the children fund reports that he saw frozen bodies many of whom were children buried burled in a trench at Sara Sara- in one day He lie says trainloads trainload of refugee children underfed an and d scantily clothed are riding from the famine area In such a pitiable condition condition condition con con- that the living children are arc worse off than the dead The soviet government has agree agreed d to grant the American relief administration administration admin adman the use of cars and 50 locomotives required to move the supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies which the just ap appropriated appropriated appropriated by the United States wit win provide It is estimated that cars car s and five locomotives will be required require d for forty days |