The New York herald., 1921-08-07
REDS WILL RELEASE
AMERICANS AT ONCE
Promise to Have All Prisoners
Across Border of Russia by
Monday at Latest.
FAMINE GROWS WORSE
100000 Children in the Volga
District Abandoned by
Parents.
FAMINE GROWS WORSE
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, Aug. 6.-The general public
In Russia apparently has not yet been
informed that American relief for the
famine involves the release Of Ameri-
can prisoners by the Bolshevik, as
Moscow newspapers received in Riga
to-day make no mention of the recent
notes OF Herbert Hoover and Secre-
tary OF state Hughes.
These newspapers. however. report
that the famine conditions are growing
worse, particularly among children.
100000 of them in the Volga district
having been abandoned to the care of
the state by their parents, according
to the report of M. Lunarcharsky, a
leader in the Soviet relief work.
Soviet officials in the meantime have
taken prompt steps to carry out the
American demands, and all American
prisoners in Moscow and Petrograd will
be sent across the Russian border by
Monday at the latest. according TO a
message received here to-day by Wal
ter l.. Brown. European director of the
American Relief Administration. from
Leo Kameneff. chairman of the Russian
Relief Committee. The telegram from NJ.
Kameneff. dated Moscow, August 5.
reads:
"All Americans detained at Mos
COW and Petrograd in prisons and
the camps will be sent over the
frontier tomorrow or by August
at the latest. The delay is due to
unavoidable forInal4ties connected
with the granting of free pardons.
The central authorities are unaware
of any Americans being interned or
in prison in provincial places. but
orders have been given for the re-
lease Of Americans IL there are any.
M. Litvinoff, a member Of the
All-Russian Commission for Combat
ing Famine. is leaving for Riga on
August and is due to arrive there
August 10. He is authorized 10 dis
cuss with you and TO arrange all
details for American relief in Rus
sia. and TO sign an agreement. he
proposes to meet you next Wednes-
day at the Russian Legation at
Riga"
II this arrangement for the meeting
should bo unsatisfactory to Mr.. Brown
the message suggests that he please
suggest to NJ. Ltvinoff some other time
or place" Mr.. Brown will leave here for
Riga tomorrow morning.
The Soviet authorities have decided
to send three special delegations abroad
in the interest OF the starving Russians
according to a message from Reval for
warded by the Exchange Telegraph
Agency from Copenhagen. The delega-
ton to England. France. Spain and the
United States will be headed by Prof.
Bechterenf formerly of the University
OF Petrograd, the message says. Adolph
Joffe will head the delegation TO Switz-
erland. italy. Czecho-Slovakia and Po-
land. and NJ. Lunarcharsky. formerly
Minister of Education, will head the
delegation to Sweden, Denmark. Nor
way, Holland and Belgium
The despatch adds that meanwhile the
Soviet authorities abroad have been
ordered to suspend propaganda work.
The beginning OF the food tax coll
lection by the Soviet authorities has re-
suited In tho execution OF a number OF
rich peasants In the Mariopol district
who had concealed their grain In an
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