RUSSIA'S TRAGEDY

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 33, 8 August 1921, Page 7

RUSSIA'S TRAGEDY

APPALLING SWEEP BY CHOLERA

POISON-GAS BARRAGE AT

MOSCOW

TO KEEP OUT THE REFUGEES.

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(PUBLISHED IN THE TIMES.) (Received August 8, 9 a.m.)

LONDON, 6th August.

Announcements in the Soviet press confirm tho appalling sweep mads by cholera. The papers admit 150,000 cases, affecting twenty-four areas. The failure of the crops in Central Russia threatens famins to forty-six millions.

A sensational report from Helsingfors affirms that strong military cordons surround Moscow, using a poisonous gas barrage to keep refugees out.

Tho Times correspondents on the bordsr report that R«d troops are savagely opposing the migration of the starving population, and there- had been fearful scenes in the Volga idistriets, where the majority of the inhabitants are subsisting on acorns and browsing: on grass. , ■ The Geneva Bed Cross"Committee proposes the- formation of a central international relief organisation for the direction of all relief efforts.

NEW.YORK, sth August. It is 'learned that Mr. H. Hoover is insisting on negotiations with the Hussian Soviet Government itself, instead of relief organisations, before extending American aid, as ho believes that/the Soviet is the only Agency' capable of guaranteeing safety and freedom foi» relief workers.

AMSTERDAM; 6th August. International delegates of trade unions have been ir^ited to confer at Berlin on 13th August in regard to the best means by which Labour can assist the Russian people. .