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Show STARVING KM TAKE 10 H1G CATS m DOCS KAZAN' on the Volra. Feb. 11. ( By The Associated Press.) Tho famine In tlx Su- kj mi"H of this province hus mused some of the people to resort to the eating of cats, dogs and the flesh of frozen froz-en or starved horses and rattle While yet the exception, the plight of the llamldulllne family In the village of Tlgulbaeff shows that the winter may bring to the whole village. The father and head of tho family died In the spring of starvation. Then his wife and two sow. ten and 1 yean old. took to the fields and ato the remains of starved cattle. Then they killed and ate the house cat. As they found they could live on such food, they ate several dozens of cats In the village and. when thN supply was exhausted, ex-hausted, wandered away. Their whereabouts arc no longer long-er known to the other tllluen who still each have a few hund-fuls hund-fuls of acorn and pot.ito bread. The village council of Sclo has certified to I W Warren. the mertcan relief district superintendent, superin-tendent, that Gregory Ivanoff fed his family on dog meat until his wifo and two children died. Cases arc officially reported in which the people ato worse food than cats and dogs. j |