•“Mr. Jones is a man of a keen and active
mind, and he has taken the trouble
to learn Russian, which he speaks
with considerable fluency, but the
writer thought Mr. Jones' judgment
was somewhat hasty and asked
him on what it was based. It appeared
that he had made a forty-mile
walk through villages in the neighborhood
of Kharkov and had found
conditions sad.”
•“…There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation, but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.”