New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-23
Flag Won't Go
|Int0Russia With
American Food
X Ell ie { Administrations
Washington Headquarters
Orders Stars and Stripes
BE Kept OFF Soviet Soil
Situation Is Complicated
Belief Exists Terms for
Distribution of Supplies
Ended Red Revolution

hlGA, Aug. ~ BY The Associated
Press).-The American relief admin
i-tration will not carry the Stars and
Stripes into Soviet Russia, where it will
relieve famine sufferers.
In other countres aided by the re-
lief administration the American flag
has appeared on posters and flown from
warehouses and kitchens and on the
automobiles used, but the Russo
American political situation is consid-
cred so delicate that even this official
symbol of the United States will be
missing by orders Of the relief admin
istration headquarters in the United
States.
Special flags and posters are being
designed, the latter to convey plainly
that the food is from the American
people. The flags probably will con-
SIS s'st 3 Of & & ! plain field bearing the letters
Dr. Fridjof hansen, Mr.. Garvin and
Mr.. Lodge left Riga Tor Moscow to-
night They will make Investigations
III behalf of the various European or
CARNATIONS interested in relief work.
The train with the first relief party
may take actual evidence that supplies
are on the way in the shape of many
flat cars loaded with motor trucks and
automobiles The relief officials are
attempting to obtain from the Amer
lcan Red Cross some of that organiza-
tons transport equipment which is in
Riga.
Many Seek Entrance
All kinds Of persons nre seeking to
enter Russia, and the Riga Office of
busy employment bureau in the United
States.
One Of the local Russian relief or
CARNATIONS, without authorization, to-
day, began recruiting hundreds of
workers for the American Relief Ad
ministration
A baroness, q huge Cossack, who
said he was the Georgian Consul, and
several old army officers were among
the applicants who filled the Ameri-
car headquarters from morning until
night.
1t Was made plain to-day that only
persons we'll equipped for interpreta-
tive work and honestly non-political
rad the slightest chance of entering
Russia with the American contingent.
Riga's hotels are crowded with per-
sons of all nationalities, who evidently
believe the Russian revolution has end
cd and that now is the time for a
free all scramble for Russian
trade. AS matter OF fact, the en-
trance restrictions have been modified
only slightly, and unless they are
members Of official missions, legation
otticials say, few applicants have the
slightest chance Of entering Russia.
Seed Hard to Get
Among those recently admitted is
Leslie Urquhart, an English mining ex-
pert. He is going back to Moscow to
accept concession to operate mining
properties he formerly controlled.
At least part repetition next sum-
rer of this years crop failure in the
Volga region now appears inevitable.
according to official Bolshevik advices
and Independent dispatches from Mos
COW. Russian peasants are said to be
doing their utmost to furnish a seed
supply for the stricken provinces, but
with only a few weeks remaining be-
fore the latest possible date for SOW
ing, an extremely small proportion o.
the seed gram needed has been gath
cred in Russia. end the foreign grain
which has been ordered is slow in
coming.
Radical writer's in Moscow newspa-
pers charge that foreign aid is only
make believe, and that Francois arm
ing Rumania and Poland for a new at
tack on Russia.