New-York tribune., 1921-09-27
American Aid
Fast Reaching
Volga District
Two More Relief Workers
Leave Moscow for kazan
With 800 Tons of Food:
Another Train to Samara
$3, 100000 i'm Medica1
Supplies and Clothing Be-
tween Paris and Moscow
By Harold E. Scarborough
Special Cable to The Tribune

MOSCOW, Sept. 26.--Delay in finding
proper quarters for the twenty-five
members of the American Relief Ad-
ministration who arrived in Moscow
Wednesday is complicating the opera
ton of headquarters here.
Despite preliminary drawbacks, food
continues to find it's way to the Eolga,
with field operations roughly covering
about 400 miles along the river. from
Kazan, which is about $50 miles due
east of Moscow, to SaratoT.
Two more workers, John Boyd and
Van Arsdale Turner, left Moscow to-
night for Kazan with train contain
ing about 800 tons of food. party
of six will take a similar train late this
week to Samara, where they will sep
arate, three going TO Simbirsk and the
others to Saratov.
Kazan is the only place where the
authorities have been notihcd thae
feeding actually has been begun. One
thousand five hundred children there
are receiving meals daily. Food trains
left for Samara, Saratov and Simbirsk
several days ago, so it is believed that
stations have been opened in those
places and are distributing milk, rice
and sweet rolls.
ss,ooo,ooo in Medical Supplies
Naxt week four additional units be-
gin operations in the villages near
Kazan. making total of eight, assum-
ing the delayed supplies for Samara
have arrived there. Two Investigating
parties prepared to open kitchens Will
leave Kazan next week Tor the paslh
of the Kama River, which joins the
Volgs afty miles below the city.
1t is also understood that S3,ooo'ooo
worth of medical supplies, which are
needed urgently, and twenty-seven cars
Of clothing left Pars for Moscow this
week. while call for an additional
Sc. 600 900 worth of drugs has been sent
Workers are now aheld in pursuance
Of q plan for feeding villages rather
| than cities, which arc better able to
care for themselves and use auto trucks
to carry food from railroad points.
| The Moscow newspapers this morn
ing estimate that 80 per cent OF the
population in the Samara district is III
n state of starvation and announce that
to date 474,O00 persons have been cyac-
uated from the afflicted regions.
German Red Cross to Aid
Further aid in the Volga region is
promised through an arrangement with
the Society of Friends to feed the chill
dren in the town of Buzaluk, and III
that area, while three representatives
of the German Red Cross are now here
comforting with the authorities, with
q view of giving aid. .
According to the Izvestia, the Cen
tral Russian Relief Committee says
that about 2o,O0o,oOo pounds of seed
are needed in the famine districts for
gowing. In Petrograd, where the food
situation is not so serious as IN the
South, the American Relief Admins
tration plans to supply clothing ana
/ footwear to $4,000 children this winter.
All energies of the American Relief
Administration headquarters at Mos
COW are now being concentrated to
dispatch food and workers to the
Vofga region and it is probable that,
except for some work in Petrograd,
American feeding will proceed only in
the famine districts.
Business Office of Mansion
A mansion in the Spiridnovskia is
being converted into model business
office with surprising rapidity, 1t is
strange to pass in the space OF mile
+, and a half from gold domes rising
above the eminence of the Kremlin to
an office which, except for vaulted fres-
coed ceilings and the presence of Rus
sian assistants in blduses and boots,
might be found IN New York City.
i It is also curious to see khaki trucks
Enthusiastically American, pass through
cession buildings of all styles, from
graceful and low Asiatic edifces built
about the central courtyards of Rus.
sian churches, to steel skeletons OF
apartment houses begun before the war
and unfinished and ia all stages OF
repair.
A further Investigation Of the shops
now open shows the stocks in s
very small majority Of cases to Dc
those used as household ARTICLES, but
there is little new stuff evident. Some
buildings which appear closed, how
ever, are the scenes Of government &C
tivities, although the process of de
control seems to be going on.
100000 Children Cared For
At present, although the govern
mental feeding of adults is being con
fined TO state employees and Others
look ng out for t. cir own rations, there
are about 100000 children under sta tt
care.
In one institution visited the children
are receiving plates of cabbage soup
brown bread and cocoa. The first two
proved to be, on sampling, rather un
palatable to an American taste, but thi
cocoa was good. However, there is M
doubt that a steady diet Of this Is
quite sufficient, although monotonous.
In the condition of fittings and at
tendant dress. there is no evidence O
the hard straits through which Russis
has passed, but compared to those y
the famine districts the Moscow chill
dren need not complain. AT least the,
are sheltered and fed.
Keep Arn,s From Poland.
Reds appeal to WorknleE