The Nome nugget., 1922-09-23
THE STARVING IN RUSSIA.

THE STARVING IN RUSSIA.
 Forty millions in that land are actually suffering the bangs of hun ger. and we are informed that of that multitude thirty millions will die before their crops are harvested. if outside aid does not save them. The help sent from the Far East and from America. with that which the late Pope Benedict XIV caused tc be distributed. is far from being sufficient. Reports received within recent months. and photographs brought back. show that a terrible state of affairs exists in parts of what was the Russian Empire. In the immense region southeast of Moscow. particularly on the banks of the Volga and down to the. Black Sea, victims of starvation are being counted daily by thousands. To es- cape from this desert of famine. populations of entire provinces have migrated. They have left their homes in millions. carrying with them whatever food remained. And yet death stalks those fleeing multi tudes. Photographs show masses oi people who have shed almost all their clothing in order to obtain something to feed their emacciated bodies. And another sad spectacle are the groups of skeleton-like child ren who. having lost their parents. epdeavor to draw sustenance' from tteir dead bodies. Those little ones soon succumb: photographs show them huddled together. in twenties and thirties; in order to preserve what remains of bodily heat. Ter hours later half of them are dead. and the rest lie in horrible agonized spasms of delirium. Six hours later all those children are dead. No one can bury them, for no one has the strength or the time when everyone is hunting for a morsel of food to preserve his own life.
 "It is the fate of little Russian children orphaned and helpless, that should excite our pity. Listen to few lines from the pathetic appeal addressed to the world by Russian mothers. few months ago:
 "In the name Of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. may the world help the children of Russia! We mothers soon destined to die of hunger, cold and sickness. which we cannot fight against. beg the people of the entire world to take our innocent children so that they may not share our terrible fate You who have borne children and who have lost them. you who have them still and fear to lose them,- in the name of your children. we beg of you not to remain deaf to our entreaties. Come to the help of our little ones, and free us from tha horror of seeing them perish.
 o world, take our children before they have lost the strength to live. Do not think of us. for whom there is no salvation. We no longer look for deliverance. We shall be happy when we know that our children are happy. Put food into their hands when they are far away from us. and this will satisfy us. We shall be comfortable if we know that they live. We shall fear onthing, for our souls will continue to keep in touch with them. Take our children as quickly as possible. for we are fanf- ished and in rags, and each passing hour sees our strength waning Happy children of happier countries pray you, too, that our children ma be rescued.
 We do not sign our names, nor shall we even state in what part of unfortunate Russia we drag out our days, 90 as not to draw upon ourse1- yes the anger of our tormentors. When we know that you have sent for our children, we will give, theu- l to you; no power shall hinder us from doing so."