The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-20
Bolsheviki Agree To CO.
operate In Every Way
and Give Full Protec-
ton, AS Well AS Com
plete Control Over the
Work To the American
Relief Organization

Relief Organization
Riga, Aug 2O.-The agreement be-
tween the United States and Russia
providing for American relief for the
famine stricken districts of Russia
was signed at 11:30 o'clock this morn
ing by Walter Lyman Brown, Euro
pean representative of the American
relief administration and Maxim Lit
vinOff, representative of the Russian
famine committee.
Hope that the signing of the agree
ment would lead to further relations
between Russia and America was ex-
pressed in speeches Gy NJ. Litvinofi
and NJ Meirovitz, the Letvian pre-
mier.
Mr.. Brown confined his remarks to
formal words of thanks and the ex-
preston of the hope that the agree
ment would result in the saving of
lives.
Russia is by the terms of the COLI
tract made the beneficiary of far
reaching program which includes not
only providing food for the people OF
the famine-stricken Volga region, but
task of, preventing the outbreak of
contagious disease among the fugitive
thousands who have fled from their
homes is considered great. Cholera
has appeared in various districts, and
there is in many places danger of epi
denies such as have in the past swept
away Myriad victims and reached dis
tant parts of the continent.
It is understood orders have already
gone to Hamburg, Danzig and New
York directing that relief ships be
loaded with food and medicine for
Russian people. Actual work in Rus
sia may possibly commence in a little
more than week.
Political and commercial activities
will be outside the realm of the work
ers duties, anu any violation of this
clause of the agreement may be cause
of expulsion from Russia upon proofs
being submitted to the directors OF
the relief work All Americans en-
gagged in feeding and caring for the
famine sufferers will enjoy diplomatic
rights.
Oregon Man Heads Work
Phillip Carroll, of Portland Oregon,
work of feeding the starving people
of Russia, task the American relief
administration considers the greatest
it has yet faced. Walter l.. Brown
European director of the administra-
tion, announced today that Mr.. Car"
roll would lead the first party of re.
lief workers, which probably wilf
leave here for Moscow on Thursday
next. Mr.. Carroll, who has been with
the administration two years, made an
excellent record by his working en-
ergy in south Russia and Serbia.
The other members fthe first
party will include John P. Gregg, of
q Portland, who has had experience
with the relief administration in Po~
land; e. G.. Nuerland of California,
who comes from post in Austria;
Carlton G.. Bowen, a Rhodes scholar,
who was with the first American re-
lief workers in Belgium and who la
ter was in Hungary, and Will G..
Shaffrons of Denver, who has worked
for the relief administration in Po-
land and Czecho-Slavia.
Mr. Brown will return to London
with his secretary, leaving to Captain
John Miller, head. of the relief adj
ministration in the Baltic states, the
remainder of the task of handling the
big Riga base. ....+,.
Full Security Granted
With the exceptions of Americans
detained in Russia at any time since
1917, for whom permission from the
sovet government must be obtained
free entry into Russia of any of the
American personnel, such as inter-
prefers, must be approved of before
entering Russia, but freedom and pSo
lection of movement on. American re-
Russia is to be granted all. The re.
lief administration has complete free
dom in the selection of its local per.
sonnel and also the organization OF
distribution committees. On the lat.
ter, however, it was agreed that loca
governing bodies should be repre-
sented.
Free Transportation
Free transportation and free ant
preferred use of the telegraph anC
other means of communication are tC
be followed and the food shipments
of the American organization are t
have the same transport priority as i
granted the Russian relief organiza
tions.
The soviet government will suppl,
the necessary storage for food stuff.
and transportation to distributing
points. 1t also will pay virtually al
expenses, except the, actual salaries
and expenses Of the American reIlief
= personnel.
Adequate guarding Of the food ship
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