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    "ocrText": "malaria and dysentery due starvation and ingestion food substitutes, Typhus\nincreasing and most feared this winter. Cholera practically disappeared. Our\npresent medical progmam will meet situation. Newspsper stories exaggerate present\ngeneral condition and photographa are selected from worst eases. General con-\ndition adult population famine arealgrowing steadily worse. Central Government\nmaking partially successful effort transport adults and children from stricken\nareas to regions where there is food. Also local governments collecting aban-\ndoned children in famine areas* Success of latter is variable, depending on\nefficiency of particular localities. All Tack means.\nParagraph Four. FINANCIAL SITUATION. Exchange rapidly dropping\nhundred thous and roubles to dollar. Dollar at premium over pound. State Bank\nrecently opened Moscow having foreign exchange department eager obtain dollars\nand pounds, accepts personal Government reluctant appropriate roubles\neven for payment salaries officials in arrears, our relief or other approved\nactivities+ question gold or platinum reserve available purchases breadstuffs\nabroad not raised here by me as Brown advised he would hanile entirely London\nwith Trade Commission to which lioscow referred negotiations.\nHaskell.\n129"
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