The Raymer enterprise., 1921-08-11
America Undertakes the Relief
Of Russia, Stricken With
Famine and Pest.
CHOLERA SPREADING FAST
Supreme Council Assemblies In Paris
President Harding Attends Pilgrim
Tercentsnary Fete-Sweet Bill
for Disabled Veterans Finally
Passed by Congress.
By EDWARD W. PickARp.


Americans who have long been held
prisoners by the Russian Bolshevikl
have been released, unless latest re-
ports are misleading, and America. un-
officially but energetically, has gone
to the relief Of the starving, pesti.
lence stricken Russians. Agents Of
Mr.. Hoover's organization already are
distributing food and medicines, and
the American Red Cross and other
agencies are cooperating In the tre-
mendous task. Walter l.. Brown Is
directing the relief measures from
Riga. and there Is no lack Of volun-
teers for the work In Russia, for
scores Of persons Of many nationali.
ties have offered their services. some
being actuated by curiosity. some by
altruism and some by the desire to
get into Russia to find out what has
become OF relatives and friends.
Premier BRAND Of France has sug-
gested that the supreme council. In
session this week In Paris. consider
allied cooperation with America In
the Russian relief work
Famine conditions, 1t appears, ex.
ist mainly In the great VOlga valley,
and the inhabitants are moving from
1t In vast hordes. The Russian au.
thoritles are trying to direct the flight
Of the refugees toward Siberia and
the Ukraine and to keep them away
from the cities It Is the swift spread
Of cholera that IL alarming the ma
tions bordering Russia on the west.
Some Of these, notably Poland, have
mobilized large numbers Of troops
along their frontiers TO turn back the
hOrdes that are carrying the pest
along with them. Despite these pre-.
cautions, Berlin papers say cholera al
ready has appeared In Warsaw and
that there IL danger Of an epidemic
Of the disease In Danzig and other sea
ports The soviet commissioners Of
health says the task Of fighting the
pcst'chSC 10 HuuS teiIibis uimSuit w
the horrible sanitary condition
throughout virtually the entire coun.
try. and by the ''mass migration. as
It had been mnliciously planned, dis
tributing the infection from one place
to another for thousands and tens Of
thousands Of versts. The starving
population Of the volgn is moving to
the south as an avalanche. sowing on
Its way infection and death"
Help from the outside world, though
besought by Lenln, Is looked on with
suspicion by some Of his more radical
colleagues. They declare the plight
of soviet Russia will be taken advan.
tage Of by the enemies OF Bolshevlsm
who will plan new counter-revOlutions
That some Of the latter have the same
idea Is indicated by the fact that Alex
ander Kerensky has been comforting
with the French government. It Is re-
ported that he expects the downfall
Of Lenin and TrOtzky, and that France
might proffer him support and indorse
Russia's claim to possession OF Con.
stantinople II he could establish sta
Bile government which would guaran.
tee the payment Of Russla's old debt
to France. Italy, too, might favor
this; but Great Britain wants Greece
to have the Turkish capital.
Moscow on Wednesday sent out a
wireless message asking all other gov.
ernments to evacuate their nationals
from southern Russia as soon as pos
sible because there was no food for
them. The foreigners. II Is said. were
to leave from Odessa, but as all trans.
portatiOn has broken down there Is
seemingly no way for them to reach
that city from the Interior II Is not
only transportation that has broken
down. The present crisis has brought