The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-01
Cholera Claims 95 Per Cent in
Some Districts.
Most of Factories Are Idle
WOrkmen Fleeing.
MILLIONS REPORTED STARVING
Maxim GOrky Heads Soviet Re-
lief Committee.
American and German Red
Cross in Rescue Race.

Paris Aug. IA revolutionary up
rising added fresh terrors to the ter
rible famine and plague situation in
Russia. but the government troops are
crushing the rebels, said Reval dis
patch to Information today.
Four million starving, plague
stricken peasants are reported to be
moving towards Moscow from the
cholera and famine districts. The
cholera is claiming 95 per cent of the
residents of some districts.
The public service bureau has been
notified by the workmen in the Volga
district that all the factories will be
turned back to their former owners
under the guarantees the Revel dis
patch added. The Petrograd tram
ways are to be turned back to their
Belgian owners.
Parents Desert Children.
Copenhagen. Aug. New cholera
cases are developing in the Samara
district of Russia at the rate of 400
daily, according to information re-
ceived here today from Riga.
Thousands OF children in the Sa-
mara district have been deserted by
their parents in the wild flight of the
populace from the plague ridden
countryside.
The task of fighting the pestilence
has been rendered doubly difficult by
the bad sanitary conditions.
(The Sanara district is in eastern
Russia, stretching from the VolSa to
the Urai mountains. The area is 3d.
321 square miles and the population.
at the outbreak of the war, was O.,
taI oil Iz a ms I, !
GorIsy Hcods Relief
Riga Aug. 1.-Maxim Gorky's re-
ply to Herbert Hoover,s communities
ton to soviet Russia regarding condi-
tions of American relief measures was
handed to the American commissioner,
Young today.
The first meeting of the American
and the soviet officials, occurred this
morning when Ganatsky, the Russian
envoy, called upon the American com
missioner. Gorky has been put in
charge of the Russian relief commit
tee.
Berlin Sends Help.
Berlin, Aug. 1.-The German Red
Cross has needed Russia's cry for help.
Announcement was made today that
ship is being loaded with medical sup
plies with which to fight the Russian
cholera plague. 1t will be sent to
Petrograd. number of German doc
cooperate with the Russian Red
Cross.
A gloomy and desolate picture of
life in Russia is painted in a dispatch
received by the Berliner Tageblatt
thru underground channels" from
PetroGrad. The Petrograd correspoTI-
dent of the German newspaper said: {:
The discipline of the workers has
broken down, but there is practically
no work because there are no raw
materials, no iron, no COAL no nails
for building and no tools. In Petro-
grad. the ration of bread is one pound
daily The people are supposed to
get a quarter of a pound of sugar
monthly and sometimes they get a
pound of dried fish.
Spectators are profiteering in the
little stocks of butter, coffee, lard,
shoes. clothing and other necessities
that are or hand"
Worl1men Are Fleeing.
"Seventy-five per cent of the fac
tories are idle The workmen are
fleeing from the country in search of
food. -.
There are about 100000 inhabi-
tants in Saratov, and Samara. that
are in desperate need They require
approximately $4,000 tons of grain at
once for nourishment. The crops in
the Saratov and Samara districts
were failures"
In the Volga district, the cholera
fatalities reached 80 per cent