The appalling accounts of famine, plague and cholera in Russia cannot but stir universal compassion for the accumulation of afflictions that have fallen this unfortunate country. It is significant of the general feeling that even France, which is tech-nicolly at war with Russia through her recognition of Denikin, and who has certainly lost more in solid cash through Bolshevism than most. nations, is preparing to send her help. In the long run, however, it is possible to hope that this latest calamity may be the turning point in the long dark lane of Russia's miseries. One may have been a little sceptical of the many stories told of Bolshevist oppression: they may have been true, but the uni-
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