New-York tribune., 1921-08-04

from the imagination of Journalists
and should be received with reserve"
The Petrograd region is declared not
to have been seriously affected by The
famine, its northern situation having
saved crops from the ruin which over
took farm products in the southern
parts of the country.
Several ships are unloading food at
Petrogrsd, says a dispatch to The Daily
Mail from Bjorneborg. a town in Fin
land SIXTY miles northwest of Abo. and
more food Us arriving in the city from
Reval. 1t is declared that Russians
who visit ships in the harbor Of Petro-
grad are begging sailors to sell their
ratlons, and one captain is said to have
recently bartered two bags of -four for
a plano.
RIGA, Aug. 8 tBy The Associated
Press).-Baltic newspapers to-day
events IN Russia. One is to the ef-
feet that Leon Trotzky, the Bolshevik
Minister of War, has been named food
dictator, and that heavy reinforce
ments of troops have been rushed into
the famine district to quell the starv-
ing masses, who are pictured as beat
ing down the guards. invading cities
and eating everything they find.
All such rumors are without any
sort of confirmation and are considered
here as extremely doubtful although
fears OF danger arising from the migra-
tions of the starving masses have
been mentioned in the official Bolshe-
vik newspapers received here from
Russia. Stern control over this migra-
ton was ordered
No Famine in Moscow
In Moscow, according to recent ar
rivals, there was no indication of
famine. Small numbers of refugees
had managed to reach that city, but
1t was said the government was at
tempting to direct the masses into the
fruitful regions of Siberia and the
Ukraine, instead of permitting them
TO go to the cities
Owing to the fact that many villages
where starvation prevails are far from
the railroads, one of the principal needs
In the relief work will be large num-
ber of motor trucks
" hen Waiter L. Brown, European di-
rector OF the American relief admins
tratlon, arrives here from London to
distribute relief in the famine districts
he will find scores of all classes Of
Russlans, some Americans and people
Of other nationafties anxious. on one
pretext or another, to accompany the
rellef administration's forces in Rus
sla. Local American relief headuuar-
ters Is being besieged by applicants
volunteering to make the trip, some
out OF mere curiosity some anxious
really to be of assistance and others
frankly saying that they are trying to
get into Russia to see what has hap
pened to relatives, friends or their
property.
international Committee Formed
An international committee has been
organized here TO render relief to the
starving of Russia This committee.
with the international Red Cross or
ganizaticn in Riga, which is looking
after the transport to Russia Of former
pr soners of war, will maintain rela-
'ilons with regard to relief work be-
tween Moscow and Western Europe. it
is announced.
A conference is to be convened by
all the great international and national
benevolent organizations in this con-
nectlon, the announcement says
BERLIN, Aug 3.-United States Sen
ator Joseph I. France, who expects to
sail for the United States on the Rot
terdam from Plymouth August II, says
euS ,oofleI olHcialS at MOSCOW estimate
that 100000 persons are threatened
~ famine. Senator France expressed
the opinion that the estimates of from
20.000,000 to 25,0o0,0O0 which have been
lublished are entirely too big
The Senator believes that there is
enough available rolling stock to trans
port foodstuffs to the starvation sec
tlons If Secretary Hoover can get the
iood to the ports.
Russian horses. which numbered 9s.-
100000 before the war, have practically
disappeared, having been eaten by the
famished population, it was revealed
yesterday in Russian newspapers pub
lished in Moscow and received in New
York by the American relief admin
istration.
Meat had grown so scarce more than
month ago that it was rationed only
to hospital patients. Classes in Mos
co.. University were dism ssed by the
lecturers because the students were too
weak from hunger to continue their
work, the paper said
Red Gross Cleared in