Show RUSSIANS HIT BY FAMINES Shortages of Food Date From 1600 1600 Persons Reduced to Starvation Star Star- Starvation in Famine of 1911 Next to the proletariat of oC India and China Chinn the Russian pea peasant ant feels the pinch of of poverty anti anil hunger more keenly and more frequently than any other oilier says OS the National Geographic Society One of or the earliest nu Russian famines on record was that lint of GOO 1600 with a death eath toll of peasants p Cats dogs logs an and rats were eaten an and even en the lie strong overcame the lime weak Human flesh was sold in the markets Three Russian famines of recent date dite were among the most inmost severe e in in II history in in l 1900 1000 OG and WI 1011 DurIng During Dur Dur- ing lug I the he ten years following the first of th these se the time government allotted nearly for relief but the sums were ere not nut always judiciously ex ex- pendell In 1006 OG the government gave 10 pounds lIouns of flour a month lo to all per p persons rions r- r sons ions under eighteen years 01 old and over firt fifty Those between these ages received e no allowance and the older a and nil younger er shared thick their pittance with n the others The famine of ot 1911 1011 extended over oel one third one the area of Europe an and affected affected af af- persons while 8 8 were reduced to starvation ds the bark of trees and bitter bread ma made e of acorns con constituted the chief diet I t |