The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-08-18
America Undertakes the Relief
Of Russia, Stricken With
Famine and Pest.
CHOLERA SPREADING FAST
Supreme Council Assemblies In ParIs-
President Harding Attends Pilgrim
Tercentenary Fete-Sweet Bill
for Disabled Veterans Finally
Passed by Congress.
BY EDWARD W. PIcKARD.

~ 60"VnS W. VtSb\1n0s
Americans who have long been held
prisoners by the Russian Bolsheviki
have been released, unless latest re.
ports are misleading, and America, un-
officially but energetically, has gone
to the relief Of the starving, pesti-
hence stricken Russians. Agents Of
Mr.. Hoover's organization already are
distributing food and medicines, and
the sAmecicaR Red Cross and other
agencies are cooperating in the ire
mendous task. Walter L. Brown IL
directing the relief measures from
Riga, and there is no lack of vOlun-
teers Tor the work In Russia, for
scores Of persons Of many nationali-
ties have offered their services, some
being actuated by curiosity, some by
aitruism and some by the desire to
get into Russia to find out what has
become OF relatives and friends.
Premier BRAND Of France has sug-
gested that the supreme council, in
, session this week In Paris, consider
allied cooperation with America in
the Russian relief work.
Famine conditions, 1t appears, ex-
list mainly 10 the great Volga valley.
and the Inhabitants are moving from
1t in vast hordes. The Russian au-
thorities are trying to direct the flight
OF the refugees toward Siberia and
the Ukraine and to keep them away
from the cities. 1t is the swift spread
of cholera that is alarming the ma
tons bordering Russia on the west.
Some Of these, notably Poland have
modified large numbers Of troops
along their frontiers to turn back the
hordes that are carrying the pest
along with them. Despite these pre-
cautions. Berlin papers say cholera al
ready has appeared In Warsaw and
that there is danger Of an epidemic
Of the disease In Danzig and other sea !
ports. The soviet commissioner of
health says the task Of fighting the !!
pestilence is made terribly difficult by .
the horrible sanitary condition /
throughout virtually the entire coun-
try, and by the mass migration, as
IL had been maliciously planned dis
tributing the infection from one place
to another for thousands and tens of |
thousands Of versts. The starving
population Of the volga is moving to
the south as an avalanche, sowing on
It's way infection and DEATH"
Help from the outside world, though
besought by Lenin, is looked on with
suspicion by some Of his more radical
colleagues. They declare the plight
OF soviet Russia will be taken adyan-
tage of by the enemies Of Boshevism
who Will plan new cOunter-revolutions
That some Of the latter have the same
idea is indicated by the fact that Alex
ander Kerensky has been comforting
with the French government 1t is re-
ported that he expects the downfall
Of Lcnin and Trotzky, and that France
might proffer him support and indorse
R.ss.a's claim to possession Of Con-
IL he could establish sta
Die government which would guaran-
tee the payment Of Russias old debt
70 France. Italy, too, might favor
his; but Great Britain wants Greece
Io have the Turkish capital.
Moscow on Wednesday sent out a
wireless message asking all other gov
to evacuate their nationals
rom southern Russia as soon as Dos
'ible because there was no food for
hem. The foreigners, It - said, were
Q leave from Odessa, but as all trans
'ortation has broken down there ID
eemingly no way for them to reach ,
hat city from. the interior It is not
My transportation that has broken
own. The present crisis has brought ;