Albuquerque morning journal., 1921-08-21
tBs The Associated rress)

| The other members of the first
party will include John p. Gregg of
Portland, who has had experience
with the relief administration in
Poland and Lithuania; e. G. Neur-
land of California. who comes from
a post In Austria Carlton G..
Bowen, a Rhodes scholar who was
with the first American relief
workers in Belgium and who later
was in Hungary, and Will G. Shaf-
rons of Denver. who has worked
for the relief administration in
Poland and Czecho- -Slovakia.
| Hope that the signing of the
agreement today would lead to fur
tier relations between Russia and
America was expressed in speeches
made by NJ. Lityinoff and M. Meir-
ovitz, the Letvian premier.
Russia is, by the terms of the
contract made the beneficiary of
far reaching program which in
cludes not only providing food for
the people of the famine stricken
Volga region. but the combating
of epidemics.
Orders Ships Loaded.
It Is understood orders have al
ready gone to Hamburg, Danzig
and New York, directing that relief
ships be loaded with food and
medicines for Russia. Actual work
! in Russia may possibly commence
in little more than a week
Political and commercial activi-
ties will be outside the realm of
the workers duties and any VIOLA
ton of this clause of the agreement
may be cause for expulsion from
Russia, upon proofs being sub
mitted to the directors of the re-
lief work. All Americans engaged
in feeding and caring for the fam
inc sufferers will enjoy diplomatic
rights.
All relief shipments will be
transported free of charge to points
selected by the Americans, who
will have absolute control of dis
tribution. 1t is the plan to restrict
relief measures to those people
who are in actual distress, and to
prevent government employees and
men in the army and navy from
coming into possession Of supplies.
The Russian famine committee will
cooperate with the American re-
lief administration and the Ameri-
cans will not operate in districts
where the Russians are able to pro-
vide rations.
Brown Returns to London.
Mr.. Brown will return to Lon
don with his secretary, leaving
capt. John Miller, head of the re-
lief administration in the Baltic
states, tie remainder of the task
of handling the big Riga base.
With the exception of Americans
detained in Russia since 1917, for
whom permission from the soviet
government must be obtained, free
entry into Russia of any of the
American personnel is to be al
lowed under agreement signed to-
day. Non-American personnel,
such as interpreters, must be ap-
proved before entering Russia but
freedom and protection of move
ment on American relief admins
tration business within Russia is
to be granted all. The relief ad-
ministration has complete free
dom in the selection of its local
personnel. 1t was agreed that To-
cal governing bodies should be
represented on distribution COM
mittees.
Storage and Transportation
The soviet government will
supply the necessary storage for
foodstuffs and transportation to
distributing points. They will pay
all expenses except the actual sal
aries ami expenses of the Ameri-
can relief personnel.
Adequate guarding of the food
shipments and reimbursement In
gold or kind, for food misused is
promised in the agreement by the
bolsheyiki. All food will remain
the property of the relief admin
istration until 1t is actually con-
sumed.
After long hesitation the bolshe-
wiki have also agreed to the prin- |
cipal that no individual receiving |
American rations shall be deprived
of such local supplies as shall be
given the rest of the population.
Where the soviet is able to ration
the people the Americans are to
grant only supplementary feed
ing.
Sanitary Control.
The Americans are empowered
to take sanitary control If epidem-
les should be found in the relief
area.
Examination Of American relief
by soviet officials is to be
permitted only upon notification
and in the presence of the local re-
lief administration chief, and then
only where the Russian officials
are so certain of their grounds for
examination that they must sub
nit to punishment IL the charges
are unfounded.
The relief administration re-
serves the right to suspend or to
all relief work in the
event of the nop-fulfillment by
Russia of its original demand for
The freedom Of American prisoners
i, i opportunity for American citi-
zens to leave Russia, or any other Il
terms of the contract. The soviet
reserves similar right to cancel
the contract II the relief admins
tration does not carry out It's