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Show MILLIONS FACE POSSIBLE DEATH Substitute Bread of Clay Exhausted And Human Flesh Being Eaten London Two hundred fifty thousand children are starving in the Chuvash region of eastern Russia to any nothing noth-ing of half a mllion adults who have lost all hope of help, according to a telegram from the Russian famine relief re-lief commission of the International Federation of Trades Unions received by Arthur Henderson, prominent labor member of the house of comomns. The telegram says 30,000,000 workers work-ers and pheasants in all Russia are starving and that thousands are dying aily. The survivors are reduced to a state of pltful weakness and their supplies sup-plies of substitute bread, made of clay and straw, are now exhausted, says the message, wTilch adds that the people peo-ple are threatened with utter destruction. destruc-tion. "There are cases of mothers smothering smoth-ering their children and of persons devouring human flesh occurlng in the Chuvash territory," the message reads. |