Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1921-08-18
Roundup Ordered as Guaran-
tee Of Good Faith
NEGOTIATIONS TO CONTINUE
Soviet Envoy Says Government viii
Combat Any Attempt to Inject Poll
tical Issues Into Famine Relief.

Riga. Walter Lyman Brown,
European director of the Amer
lean relief administration, received au-
thorization from Washington to con-
tinue negotiations with Maxim Litvi-
noff, representative Of Soviet Russia,
for an agreement to carry out Ameri-
can relief measures in the famine dis
tricts of Russia.
A telegram was sent to Moscow by
Maxim Lityinoff, Soviet envoy here for
the Russian relief negotiations, sug-
costing all Americans whose addresses
could easily be learned be rounded up
Immediately and given an opportunity
to leave Russia, as a guarantee Of the
good faith of the Soviet government
in its desire to permit every Ameri-
can to quit Russia who desired to do
So
At informal conferences with aides
of Brown, M. Litvinoff's secretary was
given the suggestion that addresses of
some of the Americans were so wen
known it would be easy to send them
out Immediately.
AmoIs thS e is Royal G. Kelley,
American engineer, who conversed in
Moscow with Charles r. Crane, for
mer minister to China, and who said
he was in close touch with svme twen-
ty other Americans whose addresses
were easily available through Ludwig
G. A. K. Martens, former Soviet Fam
bassadcr,' recently depor.ed from
America.
M. Litvinoff, at Wednesdays confer
ence with Brown, had said Keeley's
whereabouts had been unknown to the
government since he was released from
prison.
Prospects of Russia bein. opened to
American newspaper correspondents, If
arrangements are made for relief, have
brought deluge Of newspapermen to
Riga in addition to the already large
group here. Large numbers If them
have made efforts through American
relief officials to join the relief mis-
sion.
According to the Rosta News Agency
the official Soviet news dissemination.
children and sick from the famine area
now are in operation. and 1t is estimal
ed 20 more are required.
The Russian Soviet government will
combat any attempt to interject po-
1itical questions into the Russian IA
mine relief, but it is sufficiently prac-
teal to see that if the holding of Amer
leans in prison is an obstacle to the
feeding of 100000 Russian children.
;c.h hos
in this respect be granted, Litvinoff
said.
He made this explanation of the
Russian negotiations with the Ameri-
can relief administration in talking
with American newspaper correspon-
dents. He reviewed the famine sItua-
ton to them and explained the situa-.
ton from the Russian viewpoint.
In addition to those held in prison
in Russia, asserted the Soviet envoy,
every facility to leave would be given
by the Soviet government to any Amer
leans in the country, even to the ex-
tent of advertising for them in the
newspapers Obviously the govern
ment could not undertake to locate
them all, he added, as even the list
the American government had prepared
was probably inaccurate, and in many
cases the names bore no addresses.
NJ. Litvinoff said British, -rench and
other subjects whose repatriation had
been arranged long ago were still ap-
pearing now and then, asking for pass
ports to leave Russia. He added If
the United States insisted on the de.
livery of all the Americans on the list
1 handed i'm, the Russian famine prob.
ably would be over before the last
man could leave