New Britain herald., 1922-06-23
l50 AMERICANS
 FEEDING RUSSIANS
Relief Administration Provides
 Food for iO,OOO,O0O People

New York, June eS-How a band of l5o Americans is able to direct ths feeding of nearly 100000 starving Russians is depicted in advices re, oeived from Moscow by the American Relief Administration
 The organization IS similar to the army supply system Headquarters are in Moscow, which corresponds geographically to Chicago. Ten diW- sions, executive. administrative, sup. ply. traffic liason, communications, medical finance motor transport and special investigation, operate from this point, 4T Americans comprising the staffs,
 The entire American personnel is distributed into 24 districts, each dis- triet, save four railroad centers, heins in charge of a supervisor responsible 10 Headquarters at Moscow These groups serve an area Of nearly { onn. e ono square miles. larger than the United States,
 Districts adjacent to the volrs Val ley, the heart Of the famine region, receive the greatest attention From kazan. the seat of the government Of the Tartar Republic. south to As trakhan at the mouth of the river on the Caspian Sea, every rail head on the Volga IS manned by American units. Here so men supervise the feeding of more than 5000, GOO people
 Five Strategic Points.
 Tn the Ukraine and the Crimea the five strategic points of kiev, Khartov. Odessa. Ekaterinoslav and The eodosia are the bases of supplies from which 27 Americans direct child feeding and food remittance deliveries.
 Refugee kitchens and stations for food remittance are operating at Vlte- bsk. Minsk and Gomel. providing for the district west. of Moscow to the Polish border Beyond the famine gene on the upper Volga. Americans are in charge of transfer warehouses at two points. and also at two inter mediate points between Moscow and the Volga. Corn is shipped directly through these centers for tranship- ment to famine centers.
 Thus every thickly- populated cen- ter of Russia is covered. Moscow and Petrograd have ndpendent super vision of chld-feeding and food re- mittance. Tn each about 35,000 chill dren are fed.
 This gigantic task is being accom- plished In land
 where telegrams take two or three days in transmission.
 where messages must be trans lated, transmitted, then re-transated to English.
 where, through misunderstood ings in punctuation, messages like this are received, "cars numbered 'eo1s2s7os1S4SS9 NPX have left today for Samara.'
 where one is advised to take train on Tuesday and therefore pre- pares to go to the station along about the following Thursday.
 where journeys of ordinary length. thousand miles or so, are spoken of as five or six days away. (The Twentieth Century Limited does it in A hours).
 where the traveller covering D. 900 miles must cook his own flood and wash his own clothes while he rides.
 Yet, with such handicaps, the ad- ministration has succeeded in moving nearly 2o0,oo0 tons of corn from sea ports to interior districts, in shipping daily 5000 tons of food from Mos COW; in sending out 2,500 food pack ages daily to the districts; and in euuipping 1,40o hospitals with all the necessities of such institutions, in- cluding 500,ooo sheets and an equal number of blankets.