The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-19
SAYS RUSSIANS SUFFER UNTOLD FAMINE MISERY Regions Agonized for Lack of Food and
 Clothes HUMAN FLESH IS EATEN
Girl Students Have Nc Other Garments Than
 Thin Night Dress

1 A VlV1d story or unparalleled sui ferings in the Russian famine is told ] by Miss aN E. Walker, secretary Manchester Russian Famine Relief Funds, who has just returned after a three months tour of the famine regions.
 Compared with some places," she says, there is no famine in Moscow although tea there is $90 a pound i; sugar, $50 pound boots, $30 a pair; woolen stockings, $5 pair; tablets of cheap soap, 7 shillings each; black bread, g pence pound, and wages average no more than 3 pence day for unskilled artisans to sixteen pence for skilled men. Life in Moscow is comparatively normal, but the streets are lined with beggars and unemployed.
 Jews Own Cars
 There are many motor cars, too, but these belong to the Jews, who, taking advantage of the change Of policy permitting private enterprise, have opened plenty of shops. h. deed, practically all the shops in Moscow are open now. So are the theaters and concert halls. There are still free seats, but recently a charge was introduced for the bet ter-class seats. In other seats 1t IS now common for Government officials to find themselves next to charwomen and others of the plebeian classes.
 "On one occasion Trotsky occupied the next box to mine at theater. He is not thought so much of as Lenin, who never stirs from the Kremlin-the city within the city, the home of all the Government of- cials.
 "A doctor told me that Lenln IS three parts paralyzed and that an other stroke is expected any day. It seems as though Lenin is doomed to die very shortly.
 "The fact that he is, too a thor oughbred Russian, unlike Trotsky and many other leaders, secures him a place in popular esteem denied them.
 Found Cannibalism
 CT came across absolute proof that cannibalism had been indulged in. Several little children told me quite frankly that they like human flesh much better than animal flesh. These were not their words, Of course, but it is the" sense of what they said to me.
 "They are living on bread made of a mixture of bark of trees, grass and dried pumpkins, and there are now over 100000 orphans in the country.
 "The plight of the students at Kieff is pitiable beyond words. It was not an uncommon thing to see girl students in bitterly cold weather wearing only a thin nightdress for all their purposes, and boys going about their business in just shirt and thin cotton pants. By day the students sell matches in the streets doing their studies at night. Many Perish
 In Odessa, which suffered so much from the acquisitions made by the armies of Denikin, Wrangell and Petlura, 12,275 of the 97,7oO people perished last year. In one tiny village dwelling which I visited there were ten people with no more fooe between them for the next sever months than IA dried pumpkins There were only four garments il the house. They were worn il turns by those able to wear them i and the rest had to exist naked il the bitterest of cold weather. l "Wherever I went I was tremen dously impressed with the magnifi cent conduct of the doctors"