Show famines E conditions 11 sim similar liar to 1891 91 in severity thou sand starving I 1 st petersburg nov 28 the famine conditions condition in ift the governments of kazan sk camara and other volga governments govern mente menta have now reached a most desperate state according to experts the famine la Is only slightly sightly if at all less severe than the great famine of 1891 which enlisted the sympathy of the civilized world and caused ye t the united states to send a ship load of grain and provisions to russia thousands of peasants inthe in the stricken districts are now in the grasp of actual starvation the cold of winter has begun and letters and dispatches describe the piteous condition of the people who are eating pig week in order to lessen the pangs of hunger and are generally resigning themselves and hopelessly to their fate only in rare instances resorting to violence |