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Show s WfllflE REGION 1 FACES GRAIN ji SHORTAGE V """" Some Sections Have Plenty, While Others Disclose C ' Faniine Conditions KHARKOV, Oct. . Poverty and plenty today run hnd In hand alone 4he railroad In the Ukraine, a country coun-try one known aa the aranary of Turop. There are bulling warehouses of (rain at aoma station, none at all at other, while bejtKar belege tha axens;er train nt every village. s The I'kralne thi year, aa last, cannot can-not produce enough food for ll own people. The grain crop for 122 ara only about 60 per rent of" normal, and aoylet officlala frankly admit that out-alda out-alda aid from relief organisation la necessary until nejt aprlng at leant, especially among tha children In tha village. The peasant, aay the offl-V offl-V cialn. ara qulla able to take car of thamaelvea. except'ng in tha acattered (llatrlct. where there waa a crop fall-ur fall-ur due to drouth or lack of seeds last season. i There ara splendid cropa thla year in a few districts Irt tha northern part of the I'kralne, equally as good as In rmrmal time. But la the south, .great atrrtchaa of land were affected by hot weather, and there are not nearly enough breadatufra to go around. Ukrainian officials aay that, with the aid of tha central soviet government, .they ara making arrangementa to transport four million pood of grain from the north to the south. From districts where food haa been scarce, even In summer, people have been flocking to the towns. As a result, re-sult, there ara as many beggars in the larger placea as last year, when there -waa a crop failure. 8ome of the heg-gara heg-gara ara almost plump, while other ara a thin aa ran be. They resemble the picture of hungry natives of India In-dia and appear barely atile to move about. In the poorer districts, the village vil-lage dogs, too, have become beggar, like the dogs of India gaunt, mangy , crenturea which eat ravenously even , tha cantaloupe and apple peeling thrown from the car window. Xn addition to Ita fair grain crop In tha north thla aeaaon. tha I'kralne Jiae produced alio about 11,000.000 pood of beet augar, three time more" than last aeaaon, but- barely enough for tha 10,000.000 Inhabitant of the Ukraine soviet republic Itself. Ukrainian officlala aay they have plenty of potatoes this year and that, from present Indications of the fall planting, there are proapects of nearly a normal grain crop for 1(21. Thla. thay believe, would put the country on. ita feet again. |