REPORTS OF RUSSIA.

Grey River Argus, 19 January 1922, Page 5

REPORTS OF RUSSIA.

TRIBUTE TO SOVIET. CHILDREN WELL TREATED. [A. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received January 18, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 18. The Health Committee of the League of Nations has visited Russia. It reports that a bright spot in the Soviet regime is its care of the children. The custom has grown up in Russia of voluntarily abandoning the children to the care of the State. The children are being cared for in a most comprehensive way. Though the nurses receive 5000 roubles monthly, and are given food supplies every second day, their pay is stated to be negligible, as it costs 8500 roubles to buy a cake of soap in Moscow. DISEASE IN RUSSIA. LONDON, January 17. The League of Nations Health Committee, after visiting Russia, reports that there were 2,000,000 cases of typhus reported in 1921, and the cholera is still increasing. As the Russian trains are no longer heated, it often happens that at the end of a journey passengers are found frozen to death in the carriages. THE CZARIST DEBTS. & SOVIET ’S TERMS OF PAYMENTS COPENHAGEN, Jan 17. According to Soviet newspapers, Bolshevik authorities estimate the Russian debt at about eighteen milliard gold roubles. The Soviet will not recognise this debt at the international conference, unless permitted to submit a counter-claim for about 12 milliard roubles. The Soviet desires to discuss at Genoa, firstly, the payment of the Russian debt; secondly, compensation. for losses occasioned by the intervention of foreign Powers; thirdly, the return of the merchantmen seized by Generals Deniken, Yudcnitch and Wrangel; fourthly, a settlement of eastern Siberia; fifthly, the economic relationship with foreign countries.