New-York tribune., 1921-09-18
NJ. S. Food Draft
Plan Is Refused
BY Red Officials
Government Holds Scheme
Would Result i'm Friends
of Wealthy Exiles Being
Better Fed Than Others
Baltic Revolutionists Said
To Be Seeking Aid of
Anti Bolshevik Leaders

RIGA, Sept. II BY The Associated
Press ).-The Russian Soviet govern
ment thus far has refused to sanction
the scheme of the American Relief Ad-
ministration under which persons
abroad could buy drafts to be paid in
food to persons in Russia The Soviet
government contends that adoption of
the scheme would result in the families
and friends of wealthy exiles being bet
ter fed than the rest of the population5
Socialists and revolutionist leaders
operating in the Baltic states are de-
clared by the Bolsheviki to be sending
agitators and couriers into Russia and
to be endeavoring to find basis for
cooperating with the more important
anti Bolsheyik leaders, such as Generals
Antonoff and Petlura, against the
Soviet government. Open warfare is
expected if this consolidation is effect
ed. The Ukraine is said to be the
center of such activity in Russia.
Grain Train Wrecked
More than one hundred persons,
mostly train guards, were killed when
a heavily conveyed grain train was
Wrecked at Fastov. near Kiev. few
day ago, according to a Kiev radio
dispatch received here. The wreck
was caused by the removal of rails at
point where the train, made up of
sixty one cars, was running down
grade. The grain was being carried
to the Donetz Basin to be distributed
to miners.
Advices received from the Ukraine
report good crop conditions. The re-
gion is expected to furnish 60,000,000
pools (36,000,000 bushels) Of grain.
Successful completion of the Soviet
governments campaign to secure seed
grain for the famine-stricken Volga
region is announced by the Rosta
Official Bolshevik News Agency. 1t is
declared that the greater portion of
the seed grain already has reached the
famine area and will be available in
time for sowing.
Hunger Tightens Its Grip
TSARITSYN, Russia. Sept. (By
Courier to Moscow (By The Associ
ated Press Delay Hunger is
of the Volga. Officials of the Near
East Relief who reached this city to-
day after making a survey of ten prov
inces in faminewasted, sun-scorched
southeastern Russia said conditions in
dicated wholesale starvation by Janu-
ary if outside help on large scale did
not arrive Immediately. The situation
at Sanara was found to be grave, but
further south it became worse. There
the soil is poorer, and starvation is al
ready at the door:
At F'ilonovo refugees from Saratov
climbed all over the Near East relief
car, attempting to escape to districts
where food might be obtained. There
are 1000 of these homeless ones in
Tsaritsyn at present. They have nc
place to go, and the population is al
ready on short rations and is unable tc
| feed the immigrants. The Tsaritsyr
Soviet is feeding 10000 children al
orphanges, giving them seven ounces Of
bread and sixteen grams of sugar daily
They receive soup three times a week
| when meat can be obtained This work
however, cannot be carried on later
than January.
LONDON, Sept. 17.-Twenty Amer
ican Relief Administration workers
doctors, transportation experts ane
warehouse keepers, who arrived in Eng
! land from the United States last Satur
day on board the liner Olympic, have
left for Riga. From that city they will