The Cordova daily times., 1921-06-29
STARVATION IN
 RUSSIA CLAIMS
 0LDAND YOUNG

tBy International News Service.)
 WILKES-BARRE, Pa., June 29.- The horrors of life in Russia under the Bolshevist regime are more terri ble than they have been pictured by newspaper correspondents.
 Starvation is gripping the young and old. Women and children are slowly dying of hunger. Their suffer- ing is terrible There is little or no help.
 Jews are the particular subjects for venomous attacks and persecution.
 Such is the tale coming through from Russia in letter to Louis Gold stein, tailor, of No. 131 South Main street, this city, from his relatives. The letter. paints picture of the ap- palling conditions in Russia
 Goldstein is informed of the death by starvation of his mother, his three uncles and an aunt This is the first letter from his native home in four years. It is written by two brothers who live in Rovno. The victims lived in Nickudnov, a village of the Ukraine. A year ago it fell into the hands of the Bolshevists. The victims sold their home for 1,5OO rubles and started for Rovno in the hope of get ing passage to America. The distance between Nichudnov and Rovno is 175 miles and it requires almost two months for them to make the journey, walking most of the way.
 They set out in the winter and had to contend with the severe February weather. They had secured passports but when they reached Rovno they were told a mistake had been made and another Goldstein family had been meant. A telegram was sent to Louis Goldstein, in this city, and he sent money through relief agent, | but it came too late. The letter just received follows:
 Mother died three days after re- ceiving your money. It was too late; l she died of starvation. She had not | eaten in eight days, and her system | was dried out In her dying moments | she moaned that we should pour oil down her throat, as she was being burned alive. She was a shriveled | for,, xyba, cho d;od
 With the money you sent us we were able to give her proper fu- neral, and we were envied by others, because it is something rare nowa- days. Had she been buried in Nicaud- nov she would have been inferred in rags, as there even the living wear only rags. Don't fret that mother died; she is better off than we are.
 We are hungry, and there isn't anything to buy, even with money.
 Blood is the cheapest thing in Rovno. It is spilled on the street every day.
 "The Jews in Rovno have to hide themselves from the Poles, and there are few places to hide.
 The Poles kill us on the streets.
 -'If there is Christian who offers his home for the Jews protection he himself is punished.
 Organized bands of ruffians offer ten rubles, or a pound of salt, as a prize for every Jew offered up to them pound of salt is worth twen- ty-five rubles. So you can see the plight we are in"
 The brothers tell the pathetic story of young woman, cousin, who is dying slow death, with her daugh- ter, of starvation.
 "She used to serve at 'Simches' celebrations, but there are no cele- b-ations in Russia any more. So she is starving She appeals for help to her husband in America and pegs him not to forget her and their little 
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