The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-25
DISEASE HORROR
 ADDED TO FAMINE
 IN SOVIET RUSSIA

Samara, on the Volga, Nov. 25:- (By a Staff Correspondent of The As seciated Press)-The numerical and geographical extent of the great fam- inc cannot be given. There is today and has been as much food available in Samara, for those who have money as 4a Baku, on the Caspian Sea, 2,OOo miles distant. The Russian refugees from Bolshevism in Constantinople are suffering from hunger and lack of clothes almost as much as those Russians in Poltaya and they in their turn as much as those in Oren- burg.
 The Associated Press correspondent completed a journey from Constanti- nople to Moscow by way of Tifiis. Baiku, Astrakhan and Samara, and most sordid of|which was seen in the dreary Eteppe region between Tifiis (Georgia) and Baku (port of Azer- baijan on the Caspian Sea).
 There revolution after revolution, fo& five years, has left a trail of de- struction and ruined houses arr wrecked railway stations which can not be matched in Russia. Added to the lack of food, is the constant bat tie with malaria, cholera, and typhus, and added to these is the cold against which there is little shelter or fuel.
 No more pathetic sight was seen than that of the Baku Central Rail- way station, where thousands of men, women and children going nobody could say where, were camped on dirty sidings, for the most part dress ed in rags and eating scraps of food like hunted animals.
 To the north, along the Volga in Russia, the misery Is often of the respectable, cleanly kind. At Car itzyn thousands of families are living in railway cars. Others have been
 Begging is rather 4he exception than the rule everywhere in the famine regions.
 The German coIonist villages and towns along the Volga are so cleanly and orderly. surrounded by such | f1orid 1uxuriance of field and forest, that it is hard to believe their people are suffering from hunger. AS every where in Russia, the churches are open, and services are held At Volsk, when the correspondent at tended vespers, he was followed out of the church by one of the priests who begged that food come from America before his people starved.
 In the worst areas there is far more hunger swelling than was seen in Vienna in the winter of 1918. This is the last stage of starvation and when it comes neither food nor med icine will help-
 The majority of such cases are to be seen in the cities, about the rail way station, in the trains or about the landing stages and on the steam
  thousands of peasant wanderers are seeking to reach friends in districts where they imagine food conditions are better. The government is trying to discourage such wanderings but they are continuing.
 The distances made by peasant families are incredible. At Saratov. about the river front, may be met families from Orenburg going towards the Ukraine, where the crops did not fail, and then families from Astrakhan going up river to some one of the German villages such as VolSk or BcrOnOv.
 While there is perfect order in all Russia, on every hand the individual struggle for life, for daily food. is bitter and hard. No one thinks of anyone else. Robbery is limited. as robbers are shot when caught, but trickery in small trading is the rule. A warm place to sleep, something. to eat, and clothing are the beginning and end of daily life. Children. are brushed aside, ignored or treated like little animals.
 A person invited to a meal will eat twice what good manners would per- init. He is laying in a stock of food. building up his body, he figures, for