6 apr 1933 anni - "HUNGER IN THE UKRAINE." NY Times 1933, April 6

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NY Times 1933, April 6 - HUNGER IN THE UKRAINE.

Private Correspondence Indicates Serious Conditions.

To the Editor of The New York Times: I note the denial of the starvation of those in Ukraine, North Caucasus and Lower Volga regions by your correspondent Walter Duranty, in this morning's issue of THE TIMES.

I note the denial of the starvation of those in Ukraine, North Caucasus and Lower Volga regions by your correspondent Walter Duranty, in this mornings issue of THE TIMES.

Private letters from persons in these regions indicate that thousands have already died and more are dying of starvation.

The people who write such pathetic letters are not looking for help, because it cannot reach them. Money cannot reach them, and if it does they receive only half of what they sign for. Receipt of help from America only gets them into trouble with the Cheka. Most of the letters I have seen end thus: "If you do not hear from us again, you can be sure we are not alive. We are either getting it for this letter, or we are through. The agony of living and dying of hunger is so painful and so long. What torture is it to live in hunger and know you are dying slowly of hunger."

The Soviet Government is repeating the deeds of 1921, when the famine situation was not known until it was too late to help those five millions in the Ukraine, who died of starvation just on account of false information. H. H. Fischer tells us of this in the book "Famine in Soviet Russia, 1919-1923," when he writes: "The Moscow Government failed to bring the Ukrainian situation to the knowledge of the A.R.A."

KATHERINE E. SCHUTOCK

Jackson Heights,

N.Y.

March 31, 193

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