Show poor famine fam ine stricken tji tax ridden ressia LONDON sept 29 20 A st petersburg dispatch die patch says a circular baa bas been issued by t the he minister of the interior bibich enumerated thirteen governmental in which people are completely famine stricken and eight in which partial famine prevails pre vaile the great fair which ie Is annually held at fijal nov gorod attended by merchants and from all arts of russia wae was a failure this year e thin was woe due to the enormous enor mons n number yu amne r of bankrupts and their consequent withdrawal from the trade in many villages the peasants have up their huts hul ls and have left their communes to scour the country in bearch of work hundreds of them have and land are begging along the roadsides in numerous nim erous cases t the bead corn which was furnished the peasants by the government has his been eaten in adelai of being planted and the to lands do n are lying fallow notwithstanding the terrible condition of tho thc peasants the taxes continue to be extorted from the starving people everything is taken from them to satiety satisfy the demands of the tax tar gathers where the he peasants display any unwilling dees to pay taxes the coll caora re sort to physical means to ex extort tor t money moley from them the knout is extensively ten ly employed by the officials of the tax collecting department of russia Ilu Beia |