Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-08-18
REDS Of RUSSIA
YIELD TO HOOVER
SoVIetS Insist Politics Shall Not
Influence Relief Plan.
AGREE TO FREE ALL YANKS
Every Facility to Leave the Country
VIII Be Given Liberated Amer.
cans, Says Maxim Litvinoff,
Soviet Special Envoy.

riga, Letvia, Aug. 13.-The Russian
soviet government will combat any at
tempt 10 1nterject political questions
INTO the Russian famine relief but
lt IS sufficiently practical to see that
II the holding of Americans in prison
IS an obstacle to the feeding Of
million Russian children, it is best that
herbert Hoovers stipulation in this re-
spect be granted, declared Maxim Lit
VlnoH, the soviet special envoy, here.
M. Litvinoff made this explanation
OF the Russian negotiations with the
American relief administration in talk
ing with the American newspaper cor
respondents. He reviewed the famine
situation to them and explained the
SITUATION from the Russian viewpoint.
In addition to those held in prison
In Russia, declared the soviet envoy,
every facility to leave would be given
Dy the soviet government to any Amer
leans In the country, even to the ex-
tent of advertising for them in the
newspapers. Obviously the govern
ment could not undertake to locate
them all, however, he added. as even
the list the American government had
prepared was probably inaccurate, and
IN many cases the names bore no ad
dresses.
Litvinoff Wires Moscow.
A telegram was sent to Moscow by
hot oil Av11n ~ q n g
whose addresses could easily be
learned be rounded up Immediately
and given an opportunity to leave Rus
STA as a guaranty of the good faith OF
the soviet government in it's desire to
permit every American to quit Russia
who desired to do SO.
At informal conferences with aids
of Walter L. Brown, European direc-
tor Of the American relief administra-
ton, held here, the suggestion was
given to M. Litvonov's secretary that
the addresses of some of the Ameri
cans were so we'll known it would be
easy to send them out Immediately.
M. Litvinoff stated that British,
French and other subjects whose re-
patriation had been arranged long ago
were still appearing now and then
asking for passports to leave Russia.
He added that if the United States
insisted on the delivery Of all the
Americans on the list handed him the
Russian famine probably would be
over before the last man could leave.
"Mr. Hoover has stipulated that all
Americans imprisoned in Russia should
be released" the soviet representative
continued. '"They have been kept in
prison for certain reasons and some
Of them have been accused of grave
offenses against the government One
KalmatianO even had been condemned
to DEATH"
The newspaper Novy Put, the Off
cial soviet organ at Riga, has said that
Kalmatiano Zone of the prisoners who
came out of Russia this week. had
been condemned in connection with
plot to organize military mutiny
against the soviet government in 1918.
"Stll," said NJ Litvinoff. the soviet
SoNcl ulucIlL was SliIlI1CIlClg III dCllN al
to see that if this was an obstacle to
feeding 100000 children, then the
conditions should be fulfilled. / real
lie that this condition is of some i'm
portance to America, but certainly if
it were only question of Russian in
ternal affairs, our attitude would be
quite different"