Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-08-12
GREATEST RELIEF
MOVEMENT STARTS
Army of Workers to Invade Rus
Sia in September.
BIGGEST OF KIND IN HISTORY
Commission to Plan Succor for StricES
en- Country Is Named by the Su-
preme counciI-Hoover at
Work on Move.

Paris, Aug. 1.-THE greatest relief
movement in the history of the civil
lied world is scheduled to begin in
September when an army of work
erS and millions of tons of supplies
viii invade Russia by way of Odessa
and Riga under the joint direction of
Herbert Hoover and Lord Curzon.
They will cooperate with the soviet
government.
Ihls paramount fact, which involves
recognition of the soviet government
by the entire world, became a prac-
teal certainty following the appoint
ment Of commission by the supreme
council. The commission was ordered
TO sit day and night and reach a de-
cision this week as to ways and means
TO succor Russia, considering only the
humanitarian, and not the political
viewpoint"
Lord Curzon outlined the three
points on which the relief will be
based. Cooperation of the soviet gov
eminent is absolutely essential owing
to its control of transportation.
BRAND Drops kerensky.
Premier BRAND, who had previously
urged recognition of Kerensky and the
overthrow of the soviets, appeared TO
be convinced in favor of the new plan.
The soviets must agree to cooperate
In order that the international relief
organization may have supreme au-
thOrity in its field.
The third necessary step will be
enlistment and mobilization of thou
sands of experienced workers.
Premier BOnomi of Italy suggested
that the matter of relief for starving
Russia be left to the presept organi-
cations, but this was unanimously re-
jected. Lloyd George declared;
This matter is she biggest of its
kind in history. Neither The Red
Cross nor Hoover, alone, are capable
of handling it, The world must com
bine or the cholera which sweeps Eu-
rope will cost more than the war"
Outline of Work
1t was indicated that Secretary
Hoover would be asked to collaborate
with Lord Curz0n, who, Lloyd George
stated, had solyed the problem of TO-
/ 100000 starving in India.
/ The international organization will
work on the following broad lines:
Great depots will be established to
which millions of tons of grain and all
| supplies will be rushed.
All railways will be reconstructed
and put into the work of carrying re-
| lief.
Factories will be opened to provide
work in congested areas.
A chain of hospitals will be estab
| lished.
1t is indicated that the work win
probably last for at least two years
employing at least 10000 workers and
/ costing the world, as a minimum fig
ure, $100OOO00OOO.
Hoover Pushing Work.
Washington, Aug. 11.-Russian re
/ lief work will be started Immediately,
Secretary of Commerce Hoover an
nounced, after an hours conference
/ with President Harding at the White
/ House
| Walter Lyman Brown, European di-
/ rector of the American relief admins
| tration, of which Mr.. Hoover is the
head, is due TO arrive in Riga, it was
stated. He will enter into immediate
conferences with the soviet authori-
/ ties on the problem of distribution
/ The relief work will go forward re-
4 gardless of the fact that there are
/ some 90 Americans who are still de-
/ tanned in various sections of Russia
Mr.. Hoover said. All of the Americans
/ who actually were prisoners have
! been released, and that was the one
condition upon which this government
] Offered aid.