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Show HUSS CHILDREN DIE QFHUN6EH Philadelphia, Jan 21 Frederick Fred-erick J Llbtiv, commissioner of the Alncrli.-an Friends' service committee (Quakersi who recently returned from Eteval, brought back information th.it many children are starving in Russia. Mr. Llbby obtained his Information from Arthtir J Watts, an English Friend, who haa been onguged !n relief work in Russia. Mr Watts gave Mr. Llbby a translation of the reports of Russian commissars from carious Russian Rus-sian cities It is upon these Mr. Llbby bases his Information. It appears from tho commissars' reports, re-ports, that the situation of the li 1 11 r-1 varies greatly In the different centers, in sonic cities such as Vitebsk, It Is reported re-ported by the commissars that whole families are perishing from starvation In others such as Smolensk, Yaroslav the children are reported to be obtaining ob-taining sufficient nourishment The report troin Ultc-hsk stated that the hreud substitutes clve the children chronic dysentery which It is impossible impos-sible to cure Th' commissars reported re-ported that In several centers the children had been ilhabls to obtain bread for a long time and that in others oth-ers no kind of fats or meats were obtainable ob-tainable and that milk was received rarely. The children of Moscow were declared de-clared to have no sugar nor fats and were reported to be either Starving or falling III due to undernourishment Inmates of children's homes In Novgorod Nov-gorod are starving, the reports stated They receive no meat, butter, potatoes milk or salt but live dallv on a portion por-tion of sour cabbage soup, millet cooked cook-ed In wat-rand black bread made from bad flour. They arc suffering from scurvy as a result of under nourishment. nourish-ment. r U .. 1 . i 1 J 1 .1 1 . . a . iiit- i.iiiiuieii iii uic cnoois in ine Baahklr republic ar reported to bo In ' rag barefooted ;i" hurik'r;. |