New-York tribune., 1920-08-18

the United States, claiming citizenship
and stating that their passports were
lost or stolen by the Bolsheviki.
Information regarding the Amcri
cans, which has been sent out by
themselves, by British, and also by a
representative of the International Req
Cross, has brought no evident results,
and American hopes for relief before
winter are fading
Corporal Arthur Prince, of Detroit
an American soldier who was released
from Russian imprisonment recently.
has given the consular officials and the
Red Cross in Finland detailed informal
tion regarding the American personnel
in Moscow, and has asked that if pos
sible, something be done for their re-
lief before winter
End of Food Provision Near
lief organization worked in Moscow
Upon its departure its funds were
given to the Americans, but these re-
sources are virtually exhausted. A
French relief organization sends food
to the imprisoned Americans, but this
relief Will end with the departure Of
the French, which is expected to take
place soon.
The Americans have nothing Of their
own, foreigners having been treated the
same as Russians in regard to requisi-
tion and naturalization.
trainload Of foreigners arriving
in Finland included Danes, Swedes and
French, many of them from Siberia
Another party of 100, scheduled to leave
Cmsk early in August, comprises the
last foreigners in Siberia, with the ex-
ccptlon OF German and Austrian war
prisoners, estimated to number 100,-
600, who are being evacuated at the
rate of 800 weekly.
Before the war 5000 Scandinavians
business representatives and agricul-
tural experts, lived in Siberia All of
these have left excepting a few scat
tering.
Between the railroad stations of
Byeloostrov and Rayoioki on the Rus
so-Finnish frontier, foreigners who are
sent out of Russia arr taken in charge
by the Firms. A state of war con-
tlnues between the Firms and the Boil
shevlki. and the foreigners pass the
frontier under a white flag. mile Of
railway, formerly connecting Finland
and Russia, has been torn up at the
frontier and the intervening territory
is mo Mans Land" with trenches
and barbados. The town on the Rus
sian side has been razed and firing
SOA'N-A4u-o Iltly
Two Die From Hardships
As a result Of hardships on recent
trip from Moscow t, L.. frontier, two
foreigners died, one d, the frontier and
another at q hospita 'Nter.
Many unmarried foreigners leaving
Russia are asked by Russians to ex-
ocute the Bolshevik civil marriage
ceremony, for the purpose of obtain
ing foreign citizenship and exit from
the country for the native daughters.
Two such marriages took place in d
party of refugees arriving here re-
Gently.
The treatment accorded foreigners
reflects any action abroad which is un-
favorable to the Bolshevik regime
On July 24 when a party of refugees
left the city, fifty British subjects with
permission to leave the country were
taken off the train at the hour of de-
parture and they are still being held
at Moscow. The Solsheviki had re-
ceived information that Leonid Kras-
sin, their Minister of Trade ard Com
merce, had not been permitted to re-
turn TO London.
Likewise, seventeen British officers
and experts in the Siberian railway
commission, headed by John T. Stevens,
CT Chicago, WHO we're taken in custody
during the Kolchak retreat simultane-
ously with Colonel Frank R. Blunt. of
Plano, H., and his party, were stopped
shevik territory of Irkutsk The seven
brought to Moscow and now are in