The Dolores star., 1922-04-28

In this time OF terrible neeu. Until the latllHe
gave the Soviet government this opportunity 1t
had made no open attempt at appropriation,
though it had done all In its power to discredit
the church. whose influence Notwithstanding, on
the Russians-the most religious people in the
world-has steadily grown. Mystery surrounds
the action of the archbishop in yielding up the
church's treasures to its bitterest foe But the
Soviet government has ways of its for getting
results.
Now. all the world knows there is famine in a
part of Russia. And all the world knows that there
Rre--or have been-vast treasures In the hands of
the Russian church. But Is not so sure that
these treasures still in the hands of the church
Nor is entirely confident that the starving
will get the benefit of these treasures If they
prove intact and the Soviet government gets pos
session of them. 1t is hard to believe anything
to the credit Of the Russian Soviet government
these days.
America knows full well that there Is famine In
Russia. We are trying to save as many as DOS
sibe of the starving Russians. Up to the middle
OF March the A. X. A activities, 1t is known. had
resulted in the landing of 80 ships at Black sea
and Baltic ports. These ships carried lab tons
of which 1856 tons corn wheat and sun
dries. OF this amount 129,723 tons of corn and
wheat were discharged and l,SGO shipped into
the interior OF sundries 5342 tons were Skinned
leaving 57S63 tons of corn and $500 tons of sun
dries in stock waiting for transport to the Volga
Goods were shipped on 124 trains as follows:
From Reval 90; from Lbau, II from Novoros-
sssk, %; from Theodosia, 10; from Odessa 10;
from Windau, 81 from Danzig u. The wheat
and corn trains were reported on March 10 to
have arrived at Ufa, Orenburg Tzaritzan, Samar
and Saratov. Fifteen trains nearing Kazan
and Smbirsk on the same date. Distribution of
the corn to adults began in the first week in March.
In addition to these arrivals 10000 tons
moving on ports and another 100000 tons were
being loaded in United States ports
These stocks are enough to feed 100000 people
The main problem is transportation, for in addition
fba. .liSprf giys
districts there are no railroads at all.
Nobody here seems to know Just how awful the
famine situation is. Exact figures lacking. In
March DR.. Fridtjof Nansen, who headed an inter-
national commission of investigation said:
"The famine of 1921-1922 was caused by lack of
grain. caused in turn by lack of seeds and farm
labor. Not a thing has been done to prevent
similar shortage for next year and If the world
with the exception of America, which has been
marvellous In Its succor, still remains aloof the
suffering of next winter will surpass anything ever
before known in the history of the world.
Not one-tenth of the acreage available for
harvest purposes has been sown this year in prep
arnton for the fall. The peasants have neither
the seeds, the animals for the plowing the
energy which is generated by food.
"Their wives and children are starving and
despite the admirable relief already brought TO
them by the American Relief commission and
the International Commission for the Relief of
Russia. millions doomed to DEATH failing a
concerted action of the powers before June
"FOr 100000 square miles there is nothing but
starvation in Russia No crops No food No
smiling children. Nothing but desolation and
DEATH 1t is a crime against the world"
In March 1t was stated that the Russian Soviet
authorities had failed to provide even half the
number of cars promised for the transportation
Of American relief administration food supplies
from the Black ports of Novorossssk and from
Windnu on the Baltic sea to the famine afflicted
eenters of the Interior according to reports by
Walter Lyman Brown, European director of the
American organization.
"rhe Soviet officials promised US sufficient cars