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Show TYPHUS, GLANDERS DEVASTATE SIBERIA Russian Authorities Are Declared De-clared Helpless VANTOUVKR. B. C, March 3 Typhus Ty-phus and glanders are devastating 81-beria 81-beria and conditions have become ap- 1H t II ncr. Lieutenant Colonel Douglas D. Young, commissioner of the Canadian Ited Crofts in Russia, declared upon his arrival here after two years' work in I Vladivostok. I So helpless have the Russian authorities au-thorities become in their efforts to combat the diseases that the practice jin to shoot victims of "sap, which is ; the name used by the Russians for glprtilers. Colonel Young said. Colonel Young told of finding 2000 soldiers, armlens and legless, in hospitals, hos-pitals, as. the result of being; frozen. ' On one Journey, he said, he found j a tralnload of people lying In tiers of 'thr ..one the rars and reduced to; such condition through want of medl-; .nid xinsitnl a tt en! ion that they I had been operating on themselves and j ejuh other with kitchen knives and without anesthetics. Colonel Young is en route to Ottawa to vuhmit his report on the work of, the Canadian Red Cross headquarters; ' In Siberia, which baa been closed. j "Sawdust, leaves, roots and rubbish j from the streets are being eaten by the1 starving people. said the Rev. Mr. Himmons today. "Sixty millions are clinging to life in a pitiable tupor of despair. The country Is shorn of every x'-n of vegetation and is devoid even , of carrion birds. 1 ltcv. Simmons said he disbursed $900,000 under management of a. committee com-mittee of missionaries, of which $250,-000 $250,-000 was sent from Canada. . |