RUSSIA'S PLIGHT.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17221, 11 August 1921, Page 7

RUSSIA'S PLIGHT.

AMERICAN RELIEF CONDITIONS. ACTION BY THE POPE. (Bt Assooiation-CapyiagW.) £"Th« Tim<*. > LONDON, August 9. Advices from Warsaw state, that it is understood the Soviet Government Las despatched to Riga «" the Ara f}can citizens who had been detained in Russia, and, in other respects, they are hastening to fulfil Mr H. C. Hoover's conditions for relief for Russia. The Rome .correspondent of The Times" states that the Pope has asked the Papal Secretary of State to call the attention of all Governments to the necessity for common action to help Russia. Moscow reports state that many agitators are influencing the masses by declaring that Great Britain and Germany demand the restoration of the monarchy in Russia, the candidate for Tsar being the Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovitch, who, by order of Rasputin, gave the first impulse to the revolution. THE MENACE OP CHOTJSBA. (Received August 10th, 8.30 p.m.> LONDON, August 9. The Vilna correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that despite the strongest measures against the introduction of infection from Russia, Asiatio cholera is travelling westwards. Eight cases 'have already been confirmed in one Polish frontier district. At the end of July there were 130,000 cholera victims in Russia.