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Show THOUSANDS DIE 07 FAMINE IN RUSSIA KlIARKOFF. Russia. April 2.-Hunt-dreds are dying daily as a result of famine fam-ine among the peasants In the Rlasan, Kasan, Simbirsk and Tula provinces. All the grain is gone. Among the peasants, peas-ants, who are absolutely without bread, hunger typhus has appeared. The mortality mor-tality U especially large among the children. chil-dren. Several famine committees are using appeals for funds to rescue the starving. In these appeals they state that 80 cents will preserve the life of a child for a week and 90 cents that of an adult. |