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Show M SOLD rerrible Condition of the Peasantry in Russia London, Jan. 16. Th0 terriblo conditions con-ditions provaillng among tho peasantry peas-antry In southeastern Russia are depicted de-picted In a telegram from a doctor in Orenburg, which is published here as a special article. The doctor savs that tho starving peasuntry in the government of Orenburg, on tho River Riv-er Ural, owing to not having received re-ceived any assistance from the authorities, author-ities, are selling their children to the Khirgeso nomads in the government govern-ment of Saratov. Many of the people in tho icinity havo died from hunger and typhus and more than 70 per cent of the children chil-dren are stricken with a fearful epidemic epi-demic in some of the villages, while In other districts the distress is extreme. |