New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-05
Relief Agencies
Mobilize Food
To Aid Russia
Supplies Now in Baltic Re-
gion Will Be Forwarded
Pending Arrival of New
Shipments From America
Meet Captives at Border
Prisoners Believed TO Have
Been Released, but No
Official News Is Received
From The Tribune's European Bureau


Copyright. 1921, New York Tribune Inc
LONDON, Aug. 4.-Events are moving
rapidly toward the relief of Russian
famine sufferers. Walter L. Brown,
European director of the American Re-
lief Administration, who will leave
London for Riga tomorrow, SAD the
administration was assuming that the
Soviets had met the conditions that all
American prisoners must be released
and that it was known some already
had been set free.
Relief supplies now in the Baltic
regions will be concentrated at Riga
and sent into Russia, pending the ar
rival of fresh shipments from the
United States. The fresh cargoes will
consist of -four, sugar. timed milk
cocoa, rice, beans and fats The Irish
labor conference, which is meeting in
Dublin, also has suggested dispatching
food ship to Russia.
RIGA. Aug. 4 (By The Associated
Press "A detachment of the Ameri-
cen Ped Cross left here to-day for the
Russian frontier station of Rejitska,
equipped to care for the outcoming
American prisoners, although no Off
cial adv.ces have yet been received
as to when the prisoners will arrive at
that point.
The Lettsh government also is pre-
pairing to assist the American prisoners
and has arranged to place commodious
quarters at the disposal of American
Relief Administration officials for their
conference with the Soviet representa-
tives regarding conditions of American
relief in the Russian famine districts.
Exchanges Calls With Germans
The American Commissioner in the
Baltic States, Captain Evan E. Young,
has opened diplomatic relations with
the German Charge here. Calls were
exchanged yesterday.
NJ. Rykov, vice president of the So
Wet Council of Labor and Defense, has
arrived here on his way to Germany
for brief vacation. Accompanying
him are NJ. Miliutin, Commisssr of
Agriculture, and NJ. Leshava, Under
Secretary Of Foreign Trade. While
here the three Soviet officials will meet
M Krestinsky and M. Tsurupoff, the
Food, respectively, and confer with
them on questions related to American
relief
Krestinsky and Tsurupoff will return
to Moscow later with Adolph Joffe and
NJ Ganetsky, the Soviet Minister to
Latvia.
The discovery of counter revolu-
tonary plot at Rostov- on-Don and the
arrest of it's leaders is announced here.
The movement was being led by Major
General Uktomsky.
Rumors of great disorders in Rus
sia, owing to the migration of peasants
from the faminestricke regions, are
denied in a note issued by M. Tchitche-
rin. the Bolshevik Foreign Minister, 20
all countries. In the note NJ. Tchltcherin
gives thanks for offers of aid, and says
he will attempt to explain the situa-
tion fully and state the exact needs in
Russia as far as is possible.
Sensational Reports Denied
NJ. Tchitcherin declares the European
and American press is full Of sensa-
tion&l reports of disorders, none of
great migration from the famine dis
tricts. it is controlled by the govern
mcnt and there have been no important
disorders.
The Foreign Minister places at 10,-
100000 the number of the inhabitants
of the regions to which the crop failure
is confined. These regions embrace
Astrakhan, Tsaritsin, Saratov, the Ger
man Volga Commune, Samara, Simbirsk,
the Tartar and Tchuvash territories
and some districts of Urfa and Viatka
In these regions, he says, the crops
either have been completely destroyed
or will yield only from 10 to IL per
cent of normal. To feed the people on
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