Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-16
AMERICAN SUPPLIES FOR
RUss|A's HUNGRY PEOPLE:
Relief Workers Follow Yudenich's
Army With Food for Liberated
Populacc.
MANY REFUGEE CHILDREN
Thousands Driven From Their Homes
and Rendered Orphans by Fra
trtcidal Strike-Blight Of Bolshc-
ism Is on Nation.

Andrew A. Gransted,, until recently
first lieutenant in the Amesiican
R Sn speeS dpT Wth TIE
sChildren's Fund in Russia, reported at
& the New York Office OF that orEan:za
mess to give up his work on the Baltic.
4 and is on his way TO rest and recupcr-
ate From az his Nan so% 50 tn in i k4rsaS
sEtcnant Granstedt WAS with Yudenfch's
army in the advance toward Petro-
Z ment OF Children's Relief Kitchens in
Lhe communities liberated from the
& BolShevistS.
Distributes American Supplies.
& At the instiGation of the Americans
Of the Hoover Relief organization.
iudenich set up department of trade
: and commerce in the scratch govern.
ment crested in the small segment OF
northwest Russia which has been re-
claimed from Red rule. In reality.
sseiion % the seneris sta ana a rsst
sns aniy active duty i has performed
supplies in the reclaimed area
IN Ihe three months he spent with
the White army. Lieutenant Granstetit's
the Gulf of FnIana 10 co'p psSo aEVa seo on
15e miles South In the towns along
That front he started in AL hf,y-sevsn
good meal dsy. Which il - the s"e hs u:!s 5
q operations by the American Relief
AAa ana So;, a European childrsns
Of these were refueees ron PRa Si2SsViG:
Kussia-sta-ved. frightened kids, many
OF them With nc living relative.
TIVE Concentration Points.
Reval and Fssov were the TWO main
SehSent.ai.on points :o7 refugees.
LAKE il AuE-st whvn the BoIshevist
forces attScket re city Ate: a oav
anu night q Smelling. the stubborn re-
sistancs 81 the poor!! sris.ea arc under
feo White defenders wAS broken. and
the city VS. gwen Up. The children
relief Kitchens were evacuated under
BolshevisI fire \ previous at;emp..
N July, 10 take Pskov failed. IN spite
OF TrolzEy's premise 20 she Red soldiers
city; ., ;. -
: san cities winch have fallen under
the blight OF BoishcS!s; rule. The city
used to employ nearly $500 union
WORKERS, Il was busy and prosperous
: manufacturing. IN July and August
only sixty-two calls were made on the
union for workers.
Little Land Cultivated.
Is a sandy. timbered country
Finland. There is not enough land in
cuitivat ton to feed the people; there is
no market for the timber, and the
boundary Of Esthonia. which is jealous
~ guarded by the Est-ionians.
After YudcAitch's army had push ed
We'll clear OF the eastern boundaries OF
Estbonia and Latvia, the troops from
these two new Baltic states began
withdraw, and the failure to take,
petrograd is mainly due to these defcc-
J thousand to the refusal of the Finn.
70 join in the offensive. Between ,le
Esthonians and the Russians consider
aSlc feeling exists; it is evidenced b.
I, the high prices demanded by the
Gsthonians for the limited supply OF
3 potatoes which are shipped across the
I border.
s Food Price. EantantIc.
food prices at Pskov were simply
!. fantastic" said MIR. Granstcdt .'Fo-
good bread. when tlat could be had
enc paid S5 rubles a pound These
We're the old Car rubles. which have
y retained most of their old value the
5 cheapest bread, for rublcs a pound
was made principally of oat-hulls; bad
Z uaxseed bread cost lG rub!es pound
4 once in while the butcher shops lad