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Show WILL AVERT FAMINE. Czar of Russia Plans Work for Starving Finns. Tho czar has personally intervened in behalf of tho famlne.strlcken Finns and has ordered that extensive relief work bo started without dolay. Besides tho imraedlato construction of tho proposed pro-posed Idensnlml-Kayana railroad, which will cost 1700,000, ho has sanctioned sanc-tioned tho expenditure of $300,000 on tho Uleaborg-Toruea lino, voted by tno sonato but hitherto unapproved; tho raising of a $2,000,000 loan for other railroad construction; tho establish-mont establish-mont of n bank with a capital of $800,-000, $800,-000, which sum Is to bo used in making mak-ing loans to peasant farmers, and has approved an appropriation of $140,000 for public works, principally tho drain-ago drain-ago of swamps. Tho Finns attributo tho czar's action to tho steps taken In America to rollove tho distress existing exist-ing In Finland, and to Ambassador Mc. Cormlck's Inquiries on the Btibject. |