Show rr r i RUSSIANS STARVE ALL OVER EMPIRE Corrupt Officials Steal Relief Funds and Laugh at the th I Masses I APPEAL TO UNITED STATES lexis ls 1 Declares es S Arc c ArcOn q On Ver Verge ric e of if Starvation In C ar's Broad Dom I New t York Feb F. F h 17 1 i. Alexis s leader of oC the peasant party in th time Russian nu lan has I an appeal al alto I to for fOl aid alti for Co the tho starving p peasants t S1 In th the land laud of or the tho czar i In InI which he says s 's in part I I J say MY antI and ba base e m my statement UPP upon statistics that II time the famine raging I In Russia lu I Is of such uch vast extent tent arid and o oso of oC oCo so 51 o pronounced a character that within four our months more moore m much moi women n and amid n. n for or want of ot a afew few w pounds pound of or rye ry or wheat heat Hour will wl have hn felt II sting of or poverty PO as at n no people outside of sit those of or India ever eve have j felt It Il It that hundreds of or thousands thou thou- sands III 8 more deaths will result and t that hn t the will iii bo be o almost almot bey on belief helle And to the th distress R one feels fel when realizing that his unfortunate country Is IR s In such a condition Is addId add add- Id I'd 11 till the bitterness that lint is U C caused ed by hy tin th fact act that many of or these deaths lentils will b be cau fl by t the H thieving olO officials of oC tin tIme empire who hl will steal teal the millions million o r if f money mone Jated for 01 relieving th the he Starve c I. I Peers PIS Grow Crow Rich Poor Pom The Thuu last vo i years ear have lave been fa fn- fn nine years all anti and nothing but hut nil ind A American succor e c CAn in n save lavE thes thet H from the combined results o of if climatic conditions and unspeakable I on the part palt of or the time n niI il ilmo who tho mo relieve these conditions I q am nun to i t seek I what we f need even n morel mOlO than ban I t American money 0 n A Amerlan Amerl- Amerl can an in s sympathy and md good good gond will and and I cannot canot can can- not ot at but hut repeat that If It America wishes wl hes hesto to j I save the starving ones nf or the thit 20 t specially strIcken n provinces pro h can ean In I odor real aid only by having Amerl- Amerl Aman and an in fl agents spend the tho money the food stretched W Remember that Russia o to t th world I In 1892 I 18 and r arms IJ rv r-rv nT I 1 ra ai III i lit lit- Cr cry 1 ot IlL 0 and nd time l Staler c r coin coin- h h. r t ruiS nL l Il fn I i at an ant haen aennI I 1 solemnly c l that ham al to lo the th best t to o ot of m my knowledge gt not nuL a u pound of or that bacon un went to lu the starving peasants p a and thC tho death roll was wa staggering It ItS has S 1 been 1 ml In nn and America lh tint thet l when a atro- atro om y ha hl taken tak place pines till the Cossacks Cos Cos- Cossacks sacks are art always 18 In It IL They are rob rob- robbers br bers and aud brigand b by nature nature- and doubly ilan erous I when wh n uninformed nn and have I io pei mission i lun I to mu Ic Kill ill a and rob rd ere i r 1 the HU not rotten t to tn ili the Iho 1 would not nett l be hp fa facing fl ing int i nal she would o no nobi not the beating bt bi LP i dl rt dh i i 1 I b cau lI 01 given 1 to tn h her r 1 hy by little Japan |