Evening star., 1921-12-01
RUSS|AMAY SEEK
S5O,O)O,ODO Of U. S.
Loan Needed for Food and
Seed Grain to Aid 15,0OO,-
!. 600 Starving People.
Try the Associated Press.

Ivy the Associated Press.
RIGA, November 30.-The United
States government may soon be asked
for funds. probably as government
loan to be controlled by the American
relief administration. with which to
TO supply sufficient food ana seeo
grain to provide for the entire 49,
100000 of starving persons IN the
Russian famine district.
A loan. under the plans informally
discussed by the relief administra-
tion in Russia, would not be made to
the Moscow government, but to the
provincial governments In the FAMINE
region, guaranteed by the central
government, and to be repaid Ut the
time of the next harvest.
S5O.OOO.OOO Is Needed.
The amount of the loan would pc
somewhere in the neighborhood OF
$4,000, 900 which the relief admins
1ration investigators believe would
be sufficient to save virtually tne en-
tire famine situation: Information
concerning the prospective loan Is as
yet indefinite. The plan was brought
10 Riga by Walter l.. Brown. Eu-
ropean director of the relief adminis-
tratiou from Moscow. According TO
MIR. Brown he has had sutficient satls-
factory experience in RUSSIA TO wal,
rant the statement that he would
have no hesitation in extending
further aid if the relief adInlhlstra-
tion itself were financially able TO 40
I'VE are getting full cooperation
from the sovietS, said Mr- Brown
"Our food trains are arriving intact
and our losses are less than those Suf-
fered in our central European expert
ence In theory and in principle soviet
cooperation is entirely satisfactory.
but naturally we encounter delays and
difficulties.
Now Feeding 100000.
However, our feeding of the starv-
ing is growing by leaps and mounds
as Director Haskelis organization
gets into full swing. We now are
feeding about 700. 900 persons, and VIII
he feeding a million by the first of the
wear. We will be carrying out our
full program of feeding 100000 per-
sons shortly after the new year
But food for the relief OF ADULTS
and seed grain for the next harvest
10 prevent a repetition of the famine
are absolutely essential. We, as the
American Relief Administration, have
no program or funds for adult feeding
and seeds.
I'VE are simply putting up this pic
ture to America. Actually there are
some three to four million children in
need of relief. and, with the adults,
roughly, fifteen million persons IN
distress We should be feeding twice
as many children as now, and also
adults.
Food Figures Enormous.
Two thousand tons of flour daily
for seven months are needed to 1eed
or to supplement the present ratlonS
of entire families. Some food draft
packages already have been delivered
but as most of this business is eX-
pected to he with West Russia. from
which region most of the emlgrants
TO America come, new American Re-
lief Administration offices are to be
opened at Kiev. Odessa, Ekaterineslav,
Eharkov, Vitebak, Elizabethgrad and
Mohielv.
The relief of the famine stricken
Is largely up to America. as DIR. Nam
sen of the international committee
for Russian relief, admitted to me at
Moscow that his organization would
be unable to carry much of the load.
Economically it is up to America to
extend all possible aid to Russia
Mr.. Brown said no definite pro-
posals for an American government
loan had as yet reached Washington.
hut that this phase of the situation
had been discussed by the relief ad-
ministration observers.