New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-05
All Released in Moscow


WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-The Amer
lean Consul at Riga to-day cabed the
State Department that the Soviet Mis-
sion there had announced receipts of
unofficial reports from Moscow Of the
release of all Americans held in prison
there. Nothing was said as to the
probable time of their departure for
the border.
Beyond this dispatch the State De-
partment was without official word Of
the status Of the Americans. The
number of Americans actually held in
prison is estimated at six or seven,
while more than hundred are be,
lieved TO be detained in various parts
of Russia.
Chairman Hoover Of the relief com
mission announced that every dollar
paid out for supplies for the Russians
would be expended III the United States
Surplus supplies now abroad will be
used, he said, but new purchases al
will be made in this country.
The Moscow authorities have Off
cial!y admitted 47,T79 cases Of cholera
throughout Russia, and have also
tacitly admitted that the number is
increasing. The Moscow Izvestia, of
fetal organ of the Soviet government,
in its issue of July IS, printed certain
public health statistics, which were
received by cable in official quarters
here to-day.
According to these Soviet figures
$4,000 OF these cholera eases occurred
~ the month OF June. Of that number
1000 were in the province Of Saratov,
in the southeastern part Of Russia, an
area which heretofore has been re-
Earded as the granary of Rucsia, but
which this year is hardest hit by the
drought and crop failure.
Estimate Believed Incomplete
Observers on the borders of Soviet
Russia who are closest in touch with
real conditions in the interior believe
the figures given by lzvestia are vastly
below the actual number of cholera
cases. 1t is pointed out that in many
parts of Russia communication is vir-
tually impossible, even to the Soviet
authorities, and there is reason to be-
lieve that some of these remote areas
are seriously affected by the crop
failure.
Tie difficulty of checking the spread
of cholera, the reports received to-day
indicate, is enhanced by the lack Of
quarantine regulations. In June b400
cases Of cholera were discovered among
passengers on trains, according to
1zvestia
The horrors Of the situation result
ing from famine and CHI Olera are added
to, the Soviet newspaper points out, by
the fact that the coal mining industry
throughout Russia is practically at a
standstill. In an effort to escape
cholera or famine, miners are fleeing
in great masses. and the Soviet pro-
gram for the production of coal was
reduced by more than so per cent dur
ing June. In the Don region, the
greatest coal mining district of Russia,
production is less than one-fourth Of
normal
The Soviet officials are making a
special effort, the reports state to get
food to the coal miners in order to
check the rush of these workmen to
other districts.
BERLIN, Aug. 4.-Captan Merton c.
Cooper, Of jacksonville, Fla, who es-
capped from a prison in Moscow after
having been shot down during fighting
between the Bolsheviki and the Poles
arrived here from Warsaw yesterday
to see Mrs. Marguerite t. Harrison
the American, newspaper correspondent
who was recently liberated by the So
Wet authorities. Captain Cooper de-
clared Mrs. Harrison had saved his
life by supplying him with clothes and
food at the Moscow prison before she
was herself incarcerated
THE HAGUE, Aug. 4-Thc Interna-
tional Federation of Labor has pub
lished an appeal to all its members
to aid the people of Russia by sending
foodstufFs and clothes. The movement
to help the starving Russians is gain
ing popularity among all classes in