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Show MILLIONS FACE POSSIBLE DEATH Substitute Bread of Clay Exhausted And Human Fleoh Being Eaten London Two hundred fifty thousand children arc starving In the (Tliuvash region of eastern Ittissla to any nothing noth-ing of half a mllion adults who have lost all hope of help, according to a telegram from the Ituss'an famine relief re-lief commission of the International Federation of Trades Unions reoolveo by Arthur Henderson, prominent labor member of the house of coinomns. The telegram says HO.IXIO.OOO workers work-ers and pheasants In all ItusHla are starving and that thousands are dying dally. The survivors are reduced to u state of pitful weakness and their sup-id'os sup-id'os of substitute bread, made of clay and straw, are now e:,hauHled, flays the message, Which adds that the people peo-ple are threatened with utter destruction. destruc-tion. "There are cases of mothers smothering smoth-ering their children and of persons devouring human Mesh oceurlng In tho Chuvash territory," the menage rends. |