Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-10-14


piping board during the war and now TO
att, new national commander OF the Anne
to the fact that the Russian crop out
look is the worst ever experienced and
that in consequence the country faces
starvation during the coming winter.
Lcnine and the other leaders have
been making desperate Efforts to re-
open commercial relations with Great
Britain and Italy and TO make peace
With Rounlania, but these Efforts have
been fruitless SO far. The Red sol
diers are mutinying and assassinating
their officers, and the Russian people
generally are in despair.
In Petrograd especially the condi-
tions are terrible, and all the inhab-
itants who can are fleeing fsom the
city. The Finnish Red Cross has just
issued an appeal to Tie Red Cross So
cieties OF the World describing the
shocking state of affairs in the former
capital. The population has slrunk to
about 600,G00, and thousands are dying
every month of various kinds of epi-
denies. There is no fuel, no hot Wa
ter for baths. no street cleaning or re-
moval of garbage and the streets are
becoming impossible because the paw
ing blocks are btug burned and the
water pipes are bursting The hos
pitfalls are overlooking with patients
and their equipment is wretchedly in
adequate.
Death" says the report, stalks on
every side waiting for winter TO aid
in the grim work of moving down the
silent, hungry sick. and dying thou
sands With streets and houses choked
with filth that is already spreading
spotted and Intermittent typhus, the
cold weather will finish the task with
pneumonia and abdominal typlus'
The allied mission named to handle
the dispute between Poland and Lith-
uania arrived at Su1yalki Tuesday to
begin work and on the same day, it
was announced, the Poles and Lithu-
anians stopped fighting.
The Adratic dispute between Italy
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If 1t were not for the people Of CALI
fornta and few liigees on both sides
OF tlle Pacific. the threat of unpleasant
relations between America and Japan
would quickly fade away. The Ameri-
can associations Of Tokyo and Yoko-
hama have cabled TO Secretary OF
State Colby y set Of Joint resolutions
urging that Americans "act with sober
respective governments to find a so
luton satisfactory and effective with
out affronting japan or sacrificing the
principles Of equity on either hand."
yiscount Ishii. the new japanese
ambassador 10 France and one of his
country's wisest statesmen. is quoted
as saying: "War will never come be-
tween the United states and Japan,
unless the United States seizes .Japa-
nese territory or Iapan seizes Aneri-
can territory. Japan has not the re-
hottest intention of ever attempting to
appropriate any American territory"
He says there is no trade war on be-
tween the two countries, and that la
Dor and land problems cannot be per-
mitted to be magnified into questions
where war might he even envisaged.