Show STARVATION STALKS ALONG RIVER BUG FIVE MILLION PEOPLE ARE AT POINT OF STARVATION IN EASTERN EUROPE Weak From Lack of Food and Terror Stricken From War Living in Devastated Homes People are Perishing New YOrk The York The River Bug Dug which served until recently as a boundary of the Bolshevik fighting is today a boundary boundary boun boun- dar dary of kind Its eastern shore bounds on one side the hungriest and the most diseased and the most stricken territory in the world Five million people are at the point of starvation east of the river I Bug according to figures given I en out by bythe bythe bythe the American Jewish Relief committee and complied compiled b by the American Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross and American Jewish relief agents A great number of them are Jews The war has left destitute destitute desti- desti tute and stricken Jews in eastern Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope a number as g great gleat Fork eat as the entire population of New York City utterly helpless In many cases sick in every Lease Case ase hungry and dependent East of the river Bug these people are living in devastated houses installs in installs installs stalls of old stables on roofless platforms platforms plat plat- forms farms built for refugee families one one family to a platform in old freight cars arE In holes in the ground or under unde the open sky They are weak from many months of starvation semi-starvation for they have gone for five years with with- put one square meal They are are still terror stricken from the war Their Theil number is being reduced every ery day clay by bya byh h b. a series of the most terrible epidemics that ever er swept any section of the world 1 I Typhus cholera and smallpox are all raging in in the territory east of the rl er river Fiver Bug No estimate of the actual number of those smitten with typhus in In Poland has yet been compiled complIed but It it probably is greater than Shan in Siberia where the American Red Cross found cases i Dirt and malnutrition ar are are the two great causes of the epidemic of dis dis- ease ase All through Poland may be found children phildren of eight or ten years old no larger than youngsters half their age age ordinarily are Two out of three Infants do not survive their 1 first year em of life The average child In the territory territory territory ter ter- east MSt of the Bug river has never tasted milk even mothers mother's milk American American Amer Amer- ican Red Cross investigators In say that an abnormal number of children are born blind because of the malnutrition pf of their mothers |