-Like Dr. 'Nausea, - Sir -Benjamin -Robe - risco:Lig:Troves - - what we are
sure is the wisest policy, though in a sense it is a policy of despair—that of concentrating on certain districts in order to make sure of saving the people in them. It is an awful fact that, in what is, probably the worst famine the world has ever known, it is too late to save several milliona who must be regarded as doomed. Sir Benjamin Robertson lays a little more stress than Dr. Nausea does on the expropriation by the Soviet of the_ peasants' harvests in the past. as a cause of the ' famine. Of course, the drought was by far the greatest cause, but if the peasants had not been compelled to sell their grain at unprofitable 'fixed, prices in past years, they :would have -grown more and there, would thus' have been more in store. The Volga :peasants have suffered more than any Russians under-Bolshevism. Contributions may be sent to _the: Russian Famine Relief Fund, at General Buildings, Aldwych. -It is administered' by:.Englishmen of all political, parties.
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