The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-08-16
HUMAN RACE ALIVE
TO FAMINE PERIL
Greatest Famine in History. World S
S. 0. S. is Sent Out in Behalf
of Starving Millions
Forbes w. Fairbairn in Charleston

Forbes w. Fairbairn in Charleston
American.
London, Aug. 12-Momentous de-
cisions affecting the coordination and
|facilitation of Russian relief will be
taken at the world conference of the
international Red Cross in Geneva on
August Is. This statement was made
today by Mowat Mitchell, assistant di-
rector of the American Relief assocla-
tion in London.
Gardner Richardson of New Haven,
Conn.,, has been appointed and has
gone to Geneva. He is empowered
to deliver to the conference Secre-
tary Hoover's considered plan FOR a
world cooperation to save sufferers.
According to Mitchell, Hoover has
conceived radical plan which will
speed up to a maximum degree the
worlds campaign to throw food sup
plies into Russia to feed the starving
millions.
Mitchell was unable to reveal the
details of Hoover's plan but it is un-
derstood to mean the complete CO.
ordination of the Red Cross and the
American Relief, the supreme council
and all other relief committees under
one supreme executive body.
Richardson is at present directing.
the American relief campaign in vi
emma. He is one of the oldest of Hoo
ver's famine campaigners in Europe,
having worked all through Belgiums
the devastated regions of France and
in southern Europe. IL
The health boards of England are
alarmed at the amazing spread of
cholera which they expect will con-
tinue to increase. They also expect
an epidemic of typhoid before winter.
Europe Threatened
"Once a cholera of'typhus confia-
grafton starts in Poland, miracle
will be required to prevent its extern
sion throughout the corridors of Eu-
lrope," an official of the ministry of
health said to the Universal Service
correspondent today, "but the human
race today is alive to the peril OF the
greatest famine in history and
worlds S. O. S. has been sent out in
behalf of the starving millions. En-
pire-wide appeals will be dispatched
| in behalf of the starving through the
Red Cross and the Russian family re-
lief fund to churches, the sporting
world and holiday crowds at the sea-
side resorts to give to the limit mon-
ey, foodstuffs, clothes and medicines.
We have just received the following
llaconic cable from Russia:
" The situation is growing worse
daily
New Crisis
Helsingfors reports heart-rending
scenes among refugees arriving at the
border states. An Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch says: ga new crisis
exists in the coal shortage. Troops are
concentrating at important points on
the famine front to prevent the hum
ger-stricken masses penetrating CEN
tral Russia. The Siberia situation
is the most terrible. Refugees are
arriving in Petrograd dressed in the
sacks. emaciated from hunger and
covered with sores. Many a:e de-
lirious and others are dying or the
roadsides. Transportation has COM
pletely broken down. The mines
have been abandoned by the work
men, who are dying of hunger at
their posts"
Lloyd George is expected to make
most important announcement
Monday or Tuesday in the house OF
commons outlining the plans of the
allies to save Europe from the great
est catastrophe in modern history.
The council of the league of nations
will hold a conference at Geneva on
August % to consider relief meas
lures.