South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-06-04
RELIEF SUPPLIES
TO RUSSIA WILL
HAVE CLEARER WAY
Announcement That Rivers of
Country Are Open Solves
Problem.

LONDON, May 17.-(By A. P)-
(By MaiD -Russian rivers are now
open 20 the transportation Of Ameri-
can Relief Administration supplies.
and the transportation problems
which faced the organization in Rus
STA las. winter are nearing solution.
according 10 cable advices received
at London headquarters.
Food shipments are being made on
both the upper and the lower Volsa
in larger quantities and with more
speed than in the past, and tributary
rivers. now open. make il possible 20
penetrate TO more remote districts.
Meantime the spring breakup Is
revealing in al its horror the after
math OF the terrible winter hunger.
At Aktubiusk 1000 bodies of fam
inc victims have been washed up by
the fioods on the Halrpin bend OF
the Elek river. New diseases are al
so appearing There is some small
pcx. and a great deal Of scabies,
trachoma and dysentery. bat the
medical department of the American
/ Relief Administration reports q de-
Z
and adults as a result Of American
rations
American corn is proving more
than satisfactory 1t yields Il per
cent more i'm the grinding than the
native variety. and when boiled
gains from five to six time in weight
Cholera is increasing in many sec
tons of Russia as the spring ad-
vances. but the medical officers Of
the American Relief Administration.
acting in concert with the Russian
Eealth department, hope TO check
the epidemic speedily in the regions
where the American Relief Admin
/ istration is working
Eight million doses Of anti-chOl-
era vaccine. from America Will be
used and American Relief Admins
tration directors at several points in
/ the famine regions. particularly al
the refugee camps. are educating the
population in cleanliness by grant
/ ing rations only TO those refugees
who will work 20 clean the camps.
Mesa ges describing the actual dis
4 tribution Of American relief set forth
that on the banks of the Ural river
\ on the borders Of Asia, refugees and
/ peasants on receiving the American
ration. lose no time in cooking it,
/ The river banks soon are black with
little groups sitting happily about an
improvised pot in which the first real
food they have had for months Is
! boiling merrily.
! The>corn is issued in the raw state
and is received in bags, aprons and
/ knOtted coatsleeves with all the OBJ
sequious graciousness and gratitude
which seems characteristic Of the
Russians"
"Mortars and pestles of every con
ceivable pre- historic style and shape
were imprOvised,' the message says
for the purpose of grinding the
grits and in one hour the meal was
/ boiling over numerous fires" Sc
ravenous were some of the oene-
! fciaries they could not even wait for
/ these Preparations TO be MADE, but
munched the grits whole"
Six hundred and fifty thousand
people are now receiving the Ameri
can ration in the Khlrgiz and tn
Bashkir republics of which Oren-
burg is the capital This has beer
one of the worst famine districts an
not long ago the people in some sec
tons had become so violent that Al
order was issued restricting tn,
townfolk 10 their homes after eigh
| o'clock Murder for the purpose o.
acquiring clothes and food had be
come common and reports OF can.
| nibalism were widespread.