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Russia famine horror reaches Middle West readers
Relief workers recount Russia famine in the Volga valley where forty thousand die daily from hunger and disease. Anna Haines and war correspondent Philip Gibbs describe children mewing like kittens and families starving while typhus and poverty devastate villages near Samara and Saratov.
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Middle West
Russia
Mississippi Valley
Volga Valley
Anna Haines
Siir Phillip Gibbs
Samara
Saratoff