, 1921-08-11
REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
trlauea Undertakes the Seiet
O Russia. Stricken With
FAMINE and Pest
CHOLERA SPREADING FAST
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Americans who have hong Seea held
-rz1saae-S by the Russian RolsaeNtG
hsVe eeSn released unless latest ne
poTrs are misleading sad America, an
e@csily but cneneeticSiS, has gone
10 the relief 81 the starving rcsss.
lence stricken Russians Agents ~
Mr.. Hcover's organization already are
distributing fecd and medicines and
the American Red CrosS and other
agencies are cooperating in the trc
meDdeus task Walter l. Brown Is
directing the relief measures from
Riga. and there is no lack ~ Volun-
tecrS fer the work In Russia. fev
SORES 81 persons " many nat,cnalt'
ties have offered their services some
being actusted by curiosity, some by
altruism and some by the desire ~
set into Russia 10 IND cut what has
hcSnuie Of relatives and friends
Premier Rriand N France has sus
sested that the supreme council, in
session this week In Paris consider
allied cooperation with America IN
the Russian relief work.
Famine conditions II appears y.
ist mainly In the great Nolsa valley.
and the inhabitants arc moving from
Il In vast horicS The Russian au.
thoritics are trying 10 direct the hight
~ the refugees toward siberia and
the Ukraine and to keep them away
frnm the cities Il is the Swtu spread
81 cholera that is alarming the ma
lions bordering Russia On the west
Some OF these. notably Poland have
mohiliEcd large numbers ot troops
along their frontiers to urn hpck the
hordes that arc carrying tho pest
along with them. Despite these pre-.
cautions, Berlin papers say cholera al.
ready has appeared la Warsaw n
that thcr is danger ot am epidemic
Of the disease In nansig aud other sea
ports, Tho soviet COMMISSIONS "
health says the task NJ lighting the
postileucc is made terribly difficult by
the horrible sanitary condition
throughout virtually the entire couu.
try. aud by the mass migration. Ms
IL had been %maliciously planned. dis.
trihuting the Infection from one place
Ia another FOR thousands and tens NJ
thousands OF Ncrsts. The starving
population NJ the Volgn Is moving TO
h south MS an avalanche. sowing m
It's way infection aud death"
Help from the outside world. though
hesought by Lcnln, IN looked on with
suspicion by some uf his more radical
colleagues. They declare the plight
~ soviet Russia win be taken ndvnn.
tnge ~ by the cncmics Of Bolshcyism
who viii plan new counter-rcvolutions.
That some Of the latter have the same
Idea IL Indicated by the fact that Alex,
nndsr kcrcnsky Inns been comforting
with the French government. II IN 70.
ported that he expects the downfall
OF Lenln and Trotzky. aud that France
might prefer him support and indorsc
ltussin's claim 10 possession " Con.
stantinoplc n he could establish n sta.
bile government which would guarun.
tee the payment Of Hussla's old debt
~ France. Italy. too. might favor
this hut Great Britain wants Greece
10 have the Turkish capital.
Moscow on Wednesday sent out n
wireless message asking all other GOV.
ernmenta to %cyncuntc their nationals
from southern Russia ns soon ns pos
sihic because there was no food for
them The foreigners, Il IL said. were
TO leave from Odessa. but as all trans
portation has broken down there In
seemingly no way for them TO reach
that city from the Interior, II IN not
only transportation that has broken
Down The present crisis has brought