Review of reviews and world's work . by the combined armies ofwhich starvation captains one and tphus the battlefield whereon this conflict wages consists ofeighteen goverimaents, in which the crops have are located in what is ordinarily the most fertileportion of Russia. They have a population of aboutthirty-six millions of people, of whom nearly or quitetwenty millions have been assisted through the falland winter, and are in a more or less destitute con-dition to-day—a condition not only unspeakablymournful on account of shortage of food, but rapidlybecoming more dist
Review of reviews and world's work . by the combined armies ofwhich starvation captains one and tphus the battlefield whereon this conflict wages consists ofeighteen goverimaents, in which the crops have are located in what is ordinarily the most fertileportion of Russia. They have a population of aboutthirty-six millions of people, of whom nearly or quitetwenty millions have been assisted through the falland winter, and are in a more or less destitute con-dition to-day—a condition not only unspeakablymournful on account of shortage of food, but rapidlybecoming more distressing l)y reason of the spzead ofthose dread which inevitably follow close uponthe heels of a famine—tj-phus, scurvy and smallpox. AN ESTIMATE OF ITS PROBABLE COST, To arrive at the full force of the enemy with whichRussia is now engaged in a hand-to-hand encounter,let us make a rough estimate of the cost of maintain-ing twenty millions of i)eople from January to Jidy,seven months (although actually systematic relief. COtINT VORONTSOFF DASKOFF, EXECUTIVE HEAD OPTHE CZAREWITCHS RELIEF COMMITTEE. began in October and nuist continue until August, atleast). The average amount given to each person by thegovernment relief is a pood of rye bread per month ;estimated average cost, one rouble forty kopecks (sev-enty cents) per month, or nine roubles eighty kopecks($) for the period named. This for the total number 692 THE REI/IEIV OF REVIEWS. needing assistance amounts to 196,000,000, roubles, saj$98,000,000. Such a sum would approximate!} repre-sent what- it has cost the Russian government to main-tain its present Zemstvo relief system for seven montlisonly, hut it must be practically given for almost tenmonths. To this must be added the siims spent forauxiliary relief work l)j- the landed proprietors, pri-vate and special committees and others, who take upthe labor of helping the distressed where the gov-ernment leaves off, and devote their energies to car-ing for
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