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The Riga correspondent of the Times says that the Government

of Kharkoff has voted £2,400,000 for famine relief in the Ukraine. It is estimated that more than 700,000 peasant homes are affected and that the relief will be.required for about ten months. The local authori- ties have received. special instructions to prevent relief from reaching any kaiak elements. The kulaks are the well-to-do peasants who have refused to sell their crops at the bidding or price of the Government., There need have been no famine if the Bolshevists had not laid down conditions under which the kulaks jibbed; and if there had not been (as happens in a large percentage of " famines ") a failure in the machinery of distribution.

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