The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-28
TEXT OF DEMAND
 RECEIVED FROM RIGA IT,.

Fly Associated Press
 Riga, Letvia, July 21.-An official dem and by Secretary of state Hughes for the release Of the American pris- orers in Russia was handed by Con- sul Albrecht to Leonid Stark. the ol- shevilS minister here last night.
 Mt kim Gorky. it was learned to- day. has telegraphed to John Miller. the Riga representative of the Amer ican Relief administration with re- gard to American relief for the i'll and starving of Russia, would be am swered in detail
 The demand Of Secretary Hughes was intended for Maxim Litvinoff, the chief Of soviet legations abroad. but in his absence if was handed to Minister Stark The text of the American Secretary of states com munication reads:
 .srhe American government is
 advised that despite the repeated
 efforts of pr. NanxcD on it's he-
 half to secure the release or the
 American prisoners In Russia,
 they are still held in n most seri-
 ous plight
 "In the name of humanity, the
 American government demands
 or the soviet authorities that
 these prisoners he at once sc-
 Icused. It is maDifcstIy impossI-
 blr for the American authOrififs
 to countennnce measures of rt-
 lief of the distress in Russla
 while our citizens are detsinedE" ADMIT AMERICANS
 HELD AS HOSTAGES
 Reval July 27--Thc bolshkvik authorities always claimed justifca- tion for the arrest of at least some of the seven or eight Americans known to be in prison at Moscow. Had they not been Americans they would have been shot long ago, one soviet of ficial said.
 In the course of private conversa- l. tions, several of the soviet officials recently admitted that the prisoners were held in the hope Of exchanging them for reds" in Jail in America or bringing about official negotia- tions on this and other subjects
 The bolshevki have charged Mrs. Harrison with being 8 secret agent of the American government Captain Kilpatrick has been suspected of be- ing an army agent under guise of the Red Cross, though never formally charged with this. Kalamatiano IS charged with being implicated in a plot to blow up railroad bridges Tn 191s
 Royal c. Keely. an American engi- neer, is serving sentence of two years on the charge of having rend- cred to the soviet government false report on economic conditions Of William Flick and Dr. Estes. engaged in the motion picture busl- ness. at least one of them was su- spected of being connected with the American army. It has also been re- ported recently that one of them had beenA released. The exact charges against Henry J. LaMare of New York are unknown. while Corporal fThomas Hazelwood of San Francisco, connected with the Siberian expedi- ton, s said to be mentally deranged. NOTE IS CHARGED WITH
 INFINITE POSSIBILITIES
 Riga. July 2T--in both bolshevik | and American official circles in Riga the note of Secretary of State Hughes demanding the release of American prisoners in Russia. immediately fol- I lowing the note of Herbert Hoover to Maxim Gorky, is considered as be- ling charged with infinite possibil- | ties.
 Some American officials in the Baltlc states WHO HdNc iOHSi N''S '' the serious plight of the American 1 prisoners in soviet Russia, nave urged the state department at Wash- l ington to adopt strong policy 1 looking to their release. even to the ! extent of Threatening an embargo on shipments from the United states to Russia aud possible blockade oi Russian ports. One bolsheyik View of the Clause in MT. HIoover's com munica{ion making aid contingent upon thc release of American prison I CTS isn4xpressed in an edttoria printd today in the Now Put whicf lis published by the soviet legauof here.S
 White confessing ignorance as t' ] whether Mir Hoovers note will DC answered. or in what vein If It l' answered the newspaper says Maxim t;orlSy certainly will be unable t' fulfill all the conditions imposed bN
 MT Hoover.
 t'wthout Knowing whether mor' Americans are imprisoned in othel countries. or what crimes are chars ied against them. Mir. Hoover nevel tContinued on Page Fourteen'