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Show MILUON8 FACE POSSIBLE DEATH Substitute Dread of Clay Exhautted And Human Flesh Being Eaten London Two hundred fifty thousand children are starving in the Chuvash region of eastern Russia to any nettling nettl-ing of half a mlllon adults who have lost nil hopo of liolp, according to a telegram from tho Russian fmiilno relief re-lief commission of the International Federation of Trades I'nlons rei-olod by Arthur Henderson, prominent labor member of tho house of romonms. Tho tolegnim says ilO.OOO.OHO work-era work-era nnd pheasants In all Russia nro starving and that thom-ands re djlng ally. Tho survivors an- reduced to a stato of pltful weakne.ss nnd their supplies sup-plies of substitute bread, made of clay and straw, aro now exhausted, flays the messago, wlilrh odds that the people peo-ple arc threatenedwlth utter destruction. destruc-tion. "There nro coses of mothers smothering smoth-ering their children and of persons .devouring human flesh oecurlng In tho Chuvash territory," tho moshtigo reads |