Show MANY ARE STARVING IN SOVIET RUSSIA Cannibalism Is Reported as Famine Spreads London Many London Many deaths by starvation starvation starvation tion and cannibalism are arc reported In Russia wh where re famine con conditions threaten the country with an even greater catastrophe than In Although Soviet censors are making mak mal malIng making ing er e every effort to prevent reports of true conditions becoming known reliable Information has It that Bolshevism Is facing the most serious serious serious seri seri- ous famine In its brief history Moscow Is beginning to buy foreign grain before beCore news of the desperate situation spreads abroad Last autumn the seed delivered for spring sowing was eaten In Inmost Inmost inmost most districts grain men In Important Important tant regions declare Although plowing is near completion the fields of Russia's richest grain brain districts districts districts dis dis- will grow nothing but weeds they say From rom one small village came a report that on one street there were l 15 houses where deaths by starvation starvation starvation tion occurred In two weeks Five Fhe to six persons were dying dally daily and others were Vere so weak It was Impossible Impossible impossible Im Im- im- im possible to dig proper graves When some one died In the Jail during the night prisoners carved away the fleshy parts of the body for food Deaths of starvation and cannibalism cannibalism canni canni- are reported not only In the tile entire Volga region the Caucasus the Kuban and the Ukraine but even in Siberia A serious epidemic ic is of ot typhus has struck Kiev This disease usually accompanies famine |