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Show WOLVES EAT PEASANTS IN j VILLAGE RA!D LONDt)N, April - Advices received here from the American I Near Ka.H Rellet organization at Titus depiet terrible condition.- .a I the Caucasus, where starvation, 1 overcrowding in the towns, severe weather and attai i ' wolves arc catiMtu: great a.str, The central gov rnment is making mak-ing efforts to secure food supplies from Persia and Turkestan and several small shipments have arrived ar-rived froni Persia, but the tl.ftl-culty tl.ftl-culty is to find a medium of exchange ex-change which the Persians will accept. Migrations of starving peasants froni the villages owing to thc exhaustion ex-haustion of food, stocks are causing caus-ing acute embarrassment in tho towns. Fifteen hundred of them have arrived at Alexandropol, where the Near Eat relief organization organi-zation iv alreadv feeding C 000 ief-ugees. ief-ugees. and "0,000 orphan! Severe temperature and heavy snowfall aro threatening to delay the spring farming The snow is now six to nine feel deep in the eastern districts, where the villagers vil-lagers aro terrified bv. Incursions of wolves. Two soldiers on outpost out-post duty near Darachlchak were eaten b wolves after a desper.ito fight. Near Alcxandropolo five peasants lost their llvcj when a band of wolves attacked their village. |