| Show I Death Unnoticed by Hungry Russ H Hordes SAMARA SA Russia Sept 6 5 By Associated Press Press Hunger Hunger and death go FO virtually unnoticed in tio neglected nce streets and alleys abbeys of or Samara Refugees s from famine tamino districts near near this city estimated ted from thirty to fifty thou thousand szn d. d are aro huddled together in deserted buildings unused factories tattered tat tat- tattered ered tents and and In jn wagons massed about the tho open spaces about the tho railway stations and the docks along the tue Volga Vole river Hunger typhus cholera and exhaustion nr arc aro carrying off ort hundreds of ot otI these miserable fugitives young oung c children ll ren falling victims readily to the thetA I tA famine I e and Its attendant scourges Bedraggled and ragged raed refUgees are ar constantly carry carrying lg pine c coffins toward the cemetery where here I wood wooden n crosses crosses' mark rk hundreds or of new graves grae which have havo been dug since the tho flight rore the advancing ad famine began From rom fifty to a n hundred starving starving- children are tro gat gathered up dalt dally daliy from the streets or turned or turned over overto to the central refuge refugo b by parents who fcc feed d tb them m. m l t Many I ny of ot thc these o sufferers have have- typhus fever but I the hospitals are without beds beda and medicine i iH H HELP LP ON WAY I Samaras only newspaper a single of ot brown paper hag printed an Announcement ment that th the Am American r re relief relief re- re lief administrations administration's v worker kers have havo reached Moscow and that thai tons of ot American m food tood Is en route to RusI Rus Bus I ala sia Ia The Discouraged our g 1 jl und jand d hungry population however however- Is 5 loath joath th to be- be l I that aid will come corno and with I 1 Russian stoicism tho the thousands of j r refugees moving through this great i I railway raU-a c center are camping along the highways and to o obtain railway prides t any place pIece where I food may rany be bo secured lr chairman of the Samara provincial soviet t told the tho thoA A Associated o ted ll Press rc s lost lul week weak that OO carloads 1 r of ot a aced aCI CI grain had hia already strived arrived from fm-am Moscow w. w and and that enough h w. w waa s. s expected x t to enable n bl iho th i peasants of ot Samara province to sow approximately ly acres acres' cr i. i pt of f wheat for tor the n twit next t harvest Samara Samar amara usually plants planta R nn an n area are qt f f ten leti times tim s this ex- ex ex- ex te teri t This year jear- jear thin thai I OI at Bown arca r sa ai small and the crop was was' almost a failure be because aus of ot tho io 1 DEPEND ON OUTSIDE I Ii t i A on i I in 18 difficult it It M. M said sald th the entire p peasant 1 pu of 6 w would be ide- ide d t up upon C foo food by J y mb r.- r. AIr IM dy p int ar are Without t J r d. d thIs bbl m number j l who ko Ji v. C 0 at t. t t Ii IJ jr t I i I I j I 1 are typical of ot the misery existing throughout the province of ot Sama Samara l. l Tho The pel peasants sari t there herc arc are catrIn In made mado from melon rinds sunflower seed aced and grass seed One i mother klU killed d her baby last week I saying she could not- not bear to see It Other mothers are threaten threaten- Ilni In to kill their children One woman with th six six children said tho the A Asso Associated o- o I elated Press Press- I Asio-I You know It takes children so 80 lon long to die It Is too horrible to watch them thorn shrivel up One Ono old oM woman showed tho the correspondent corre corro- TL loaf of ot moldy green bread bead and then hen pointing to i ia u flour mill surmounted by a 11 wind wheel she begged Send us something to o grind It has hns beep been so long since there has hasI been any real bread brend i I I i Bl Blames mes Plight to Outside I Influences s t By JOHN GR United Press Pre St nt SAMARIA Russia Sept 2 Delayed Delay d American relief must hurry nurry rry Here In th the heart e o othe th the famine region n with ith lt death and pestilence on oven every s are 12 little children with scarcely eJ to food d enough to last two week ec American relief administration work workers era ers era will art en re ready dy cleaned and p par d to co cook k Hi the tho C food they are supposed to b be bringing For ho hours bout r since the n. n ws Pr tod that th the tho too food coming coming- c ming the tho have 1 been een en mal making making- par U rus to f fed d. d the children wh who or ar crowded Into ti ho h heran re I found tl th the orphanages n i and ana ho hospitals h her h. badby i bAdly overcrowded and nd f h hed I with Ith th the t ar tn nc of life yn foo l- l r. r a Ut yr 1 Is gr eat at 4 difficulty In fi I the J children i ii o ow Q boI al and plat s g gr for W. W i r it I H I I fi r I i. i I ta t f fr r. r Jf DEATH UNNOTICED Continued from page 1 are sheltered no ration Is twenty R Russian pounds of ot flour fried tried vegetables vegetables bles bios and potatoes forty pounds o ot of br bread d and no mUle milk because tho the cows cow have havo gon gone dry from rom lack of fodder The little tittle were most moat sickly and death was wan a a. constant visitor There Therewa wa was no medicine no fuel no disinfectants disinfectants The air was putrid as tho the miserable children n fuddled together on tho the floors of ot this ghastly house houRc I Lot Let t America holp quick Wo ara na only living Ilg now on expectations a a sister slater quietly pleaded On tho the way to Samaria I 1 passed a huge factory formerly used for tor making munitions more recently more for tor badly needed farm farm- machinery It was closed There was no bread to feed teed the tho work work- ers era Samaras Samara's Irrigation mains have havo no not been working since 1918 There Ther arc nrc n no engineers to make repairs and tho the mu mu mu-k nl has used all Its Us mone money to secure food tood Wed rehabilitate Russia If we wc weren't obliged to defend ourselves ourselves agal against st tho whole world a Samara Sunara official said Mid to me today We Wo are rare compelled to defend ourselves ourselves ourselves our our- selves oven even against America Had w wo we been left al atone alone ne a year ago we would have shown th the world what we were able to doNow do I INow Now It Is too late Because of or th the tho famine we are aro unable to go ahead without with with- out outside helpA help A greater part of or the misery of ot ou our millions must be blamed upon upon the outside outside out out- side fildo world Two largo large hospitals here have closed cloe d there there are no medicines and no bread I was told today that on an av average rage of or fifteen children are found In this region dally daily deserted and that theft 1 Is Increasing and I Is not prosecuted except except ex ox- w when en It Is for the purpose of specula spec spec- ula In food These are unpleasant facts which I had not previously previous encountered Elsewhere Elsewhere Elsewhere Else Else- where I found the peasants peasants' first firs thou thoughts wore were for tor their children am and that even In the tho fact of ot starvation they did not steal |
