New Britain herald., 1921-09-02
Soviet Government Extends All Possible Aid to U. s. Relief WOrkers-Children to Be Fed.

Paris, Sept. 2.-The first kitchen Tor the feeding of children was es- tablished in Petrograd today by the American relief administration. Wal ter l.. Brown, European director of the administration said in making this announcement that another kitchen would be opened in Moscow in a few days. and that two admin istration steamers had arrived in Pe- trograd with cargoes of food.
 Two American relief representatives left Moscow today for the Volga re- zion. MT. Brown received a telegra m this morning saying the soviet govern ment had turned over excellent offices to the administration in Moscow and had placed a warehouse having a capacity of 10000 tons at its disposal.
 Mir. Brown said the first relief kitchen would be established in Sam ara and other Volga towns in a week or ten days.
 The American relief administration plans contemplate work in the famine area throughout next winter and spring with an organization of 100 Americans and many natives. Mir. Brown explained. About 20 men will be stationed in Moscow under Col. Wm. N. Haskell but the great major ity of the work will be done in the Volga region. The first American re- lief train left Riga today according to Mir. Brown who estimated that within ten days there will be 5000 tons of relief food in Russia.
 All American relief organizations will administer their relief under the direction Of the American relief ad- ministration. said Mir. Brown, and the A Af1aarcan Rod rrncc haS irS ad its European organization to turn oyer to the relief administration all sur plus medical supplies and food in Europe for distribution. This will be done instead of giving the surplus to the national Red Cross. the Amer ican point of view being that the lat ter organization has no definite plan for relief work while the American relief administration actually is in Russia.
 The provisions of the agreement en- tered into by pr. Fridtjof Nansen, giv- ing the bolsheviki a certain measure of control of the distribution of food supplies and the promise of pr. Nan sen to urge a ten million pound loan for relief work in Russia are regarded by MT. Brown as directly opposed to the policy of the American relief ad- NhS idhitA oA 6dha1o- ton will work independent of the in ternational Red Cross or the league of Red Cross societies. The relief ad- ministration's attitude towards these organizations probably will be the same as that recently announced in the case of the international relief commission namely that the admin istration is willing to cooperate only in the famine districts and then must be free from centralized control.
 The American Young Mems Chris tian association in Paris has been ordered to turn over 20 American trucks to the relief administration and the Red Cross also is mobilizing motor transports for its use. MT. Brown said the American relief ad- workers probably would be the only big body working in Rus sia for the next two months. He be- lieves the reply of the soviet govern ment to the request of the interna- tionaI commission for permission to send a committee of inquiry into Rus sia probably will call for further ne- gotiations nd that it will be at least two months before the allies will be a ble to act on the committees find ings.
 Mir. Brown returned to London to- day and will direct the relief work from that city.