Evening star., 1921-08-07
LEAVE
RUSSIA TOMORROW
All Prisoners to Be Sent
Across Border by Mon
day at Latest.
ARRANGE famine RELIEF
Wednesday Suggested as Day to
Discuss Means of Giving
Aid to Starving.
ARRANGE FAMINE RELIEF
By the Associated Press

LONDON. August 6.-All the American
prisoners in Moscow and Petrograd will
be sent across the Russian border by
Monday at the latest, according 10 a
message received here today by Walter
L. Brown, European director of the
American Relief Administration, from
Leo Kameneff, chairman of the Russian
relief committee,
The telegram from M. Kameneff, dated
MOSCOW, August S. read as follows:
kaneneR Telegram.
Al Americans detained at Moscow.
-eetrosrad. In prisons and the camps viii
oe sent over the frontier tomorrow. or
oy August at the latest. The DELAY
In due to unavoidable formalities CON-
nected with granting free pardons. The
centrai authorities are unaware of any
Americans. being interned or in prison
In provincial places. but orders have
been given for the release of Americans
il there are any.
NJ. Lftv1non, a member Of the all
Russia commission for combatine
famine. Is leaving for Riga on August
g. and Is due to arrive there on Au-
gust 10. He is authorized to discuss
with you and to arrange all details
Tor American relief in Russia and to
sign an agreement. He proposes to
meet with you Wednesday at the Rus
sian legation at Riga"
If this arrangement for the meeting
should be unsatisfactory to Mr.. Brown,
the message suggests that he please
suggest to NJ. Litvinof some other
time or place."
Mr.. Brown will leave here for Riga
tomorrow morning.
Relief Delegations.
The soviet authorities have decided
to send three special delegations
abroad on behalf of starving Russia.
declares Reval message forwarded
by the exchange telegraph agency
from Copenhagen.
Prof. Bechterev, formerly of the Uni
versity Of Petrograd. will head the dele
cation to England, France, Spain and
the United States. the message said.
Adolph Joffe will head the delegation to
Switzerland, Italy, Czechoslovakia and
Poland, while M. Lunarcharsky, former
minister of education, will head the
delegation to Sweden, Denmark, Norway.
Holland and Belgium.
Meanwhile, asserts the dispatch, the
soviet representatives abroad have been
ordered to suspend propaganda work. 1t
also is reported that orders for ma
chinery and other goods will be held up
the money RENTED being used for the
purchase Of food.
Executed for HoardinE.
By the Associated Press.
RIGA, August 6.-The beginning Of
the food tax collection by the Russian
soviet authorities was marked by the
execution Of q group Of rich peasants in
!! the Mariopol district who had concealed
their grain and were trying to dodge
their tax, says a dispatch received
through the. semi-official soviet wireless
service from Moscow today. An example
was made of these peasants to prevent
the practice Of boarding. it is declared
The district mentioned is in south
Russia, near the Sea Of Azov. -
At the. same time, adds the mes
sage, counter revolutionary bandits
in the Volga and Ural districts are
destroying what grain was left in
the fields, ITO block the soviet food
campaign"
The general public in Russia so
far is apparently ignorant of the
fact that the question of the release
of American prisoners is involved in
famine relief. as Moscow newspapers
received here today make no mention
of the. recent notes of Herbert
Hoover and Secretary Of State
Hughes. =.
These newspapers. however, report
that famine conditions are growing
worse, particularly among childrens.
900, 200 of whom in the volga dis
trict are reported by NJ Lunarchar-
sky, leader in the soviet relief
measures, to have been abandoned
by their parents to the care of the
state.