Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-09-07
QUARTER OF POPULATION
ABSOLUTELY FOODLESs
Inhabitants of Department Of
Simbirsk. Russia. in Dire
Extremity.
ny John t:rnutirn,.

IN ROUTE TO SAMARA. Sept 6
We are riding through this land q,
constant nightmare IN company vii,
the first committee sent out from
Moscow to investigate conditions i,
tho starving Volga.
Dr Wolf Cram and Or Knn.o-o
witz are the chief and assistant iii.
rector Of this little expedition. Soy.
| erai other physicians. Including DR.
Eva Davidowna Kup.rman tho onl,
woman delegate, who represents III.
Soviet department Of health. max.
m tho personnel Of the committee
y majority OF us are non-Commun
/ lists.
Meet FuGItiVrs From Death
me hrst indication Of the tcrro,
scenes before us came at III. city al
Suizcran. in the Department of Sim.
brisk, whore We suddenly cam. upnr
miserable fusitives from death. ir
thousands. lying between the tracks
under cars. utilizing every hi, q,
shelter obtainable in this desola,,
region.
The open. drauGhty stations and
platforms were throngcd with hun.
dreds more. many of them women
carrying tired and starving babies
At this point the Governor Of tho
state. Richard Rein. boarded our trair
and gave US what information h,
could on conditions through thi,
province that SO many OF the fleeing
thousands have passed on their wa,
10 Siberia
One-Quartcr AbsnIutcIy FooJlcs..
Tho Governor declared tina, one
quarter of the population OF his state
had absolutely no food at all. an,
that provisions sufficient To feed III,
remainder perhaps for two week.
were on hand Sulzcran once was /:
grain trading city. living on III,
product OF the surrounding farming
territory. Today the peasants ar.
flooding tho town seeking to buy
beg or, steal provisions. The Cover,
nor has done his utmost. he said
to prevent his people from fleeing.
Suizcran has already received $500;
pounds OF food and seeds. Two hun.
dred and nifty thousand refugees In
TINS section have been ordered int
concentration camps. but thousand.
of them refuse to go, preferrinE &c
wait etcrnally at the railway station.
in the hone that the government will
send provisions by rail
People Not DoIshcvi.t,.
The population Of Suizeran is no,
Rolshevistic. Its people are of tho
gcntlcst nature. so gentle In fact tina,
only few soldiers are needed tt
protect the seeds and food from
would-bc thieves in order that II ma,
tie evenly distributed
BOYS and girls between the ages OF
IL and 70 are now registering for vol.
nntary deportation into Turkestan
where food is said to be plentiful.
Fifteen hundred starvation case.
have been registered here Five thou
sand children have been sent tc
Moscow, ana beginning at leas
has been made towards restoring tn,
lost hopes of these furnished people
Needs Much Medicine.
| The entire state has supply ol
medicine only 10 per cent of what |,
! requircs-and the harvest has beer
only 10 per cent OF it's normal size
Since the first OF june the popula.
ton have been living OF grass, bark
and clay, baked into starvation bread
Yet the conditions | have observed
mere cannot he compared with those
or Samara. the plague spot OF South
ern Russia.
tCopyright 1921 nv Irri,nb N.us>