London, Juno 8.
A shocking story of despair death and cannibalism in 5 was narrated to the Associated Press to-day by Mr. William Sha-froth, son of former Governor Shafroth of Colorado, who has arrived in London after a year's work with the American Relief Administration in the Russian famine regions.
The desperate people are cating human beings, diseased horses, dogs and cats, he said. Cemeteries are being dug up and putrid bodies snatched as food. In their hunger madness the population are stealing bodies from morgues and hospitals to eat as_ food. Soup and sausages, he declared, are made of corpses, and the bones are later pulverized, mixed with straw and baked into bread.
Mr. Shafroth, who had charge of 20,000 Russians working for the American Relief Administration in the Samara district, is lean and emaciated after his arduous work among the starving, dying and shelterless Russians, but he gave ample proof that the famine sufferers did not try to seize him for culinary purposes, as had been reported while he was in Russia. He declared however, that a Russian member of the A. R. A., who died of typhus, was disinterred at night and eaten by the crazed inhabitants. This gave rise to the report that Mr. Shafroth had been devoured.—Reuter.
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