Appeal of the Moscow Committee of Public Aid for the Hungry

Abstract

Again and again hunger hangs over a large part of Russia. According to the official data, the population of 21 provinces will need help for food and maintenance: Vitebsk, Volyn, Voronezh, Vyatka, Transbaikal oblasts, Kazan, Kaluga, Kiev, Minsk, Mogilev, Novgorod, Orenburg, Oryol, Podolsk, Pskov, Samara, Smolensk, Tavricheskaya, Tobolsk, Kherson and Chernigov. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is going to add 7,732,000 rubles to the 1908 estimate for food aid. But that this help will be far from sufficient, it is clear from local communications in some provinces.

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