Russian Famine.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 200, 17 August 1921, Page 5

Russian Famine.

BULLETS FOR HUNGRY ONES. SOVIET’S STERN MEASURES. RESTRICTIONS ON AMERICANS. [By Cable.—Prew Association.—Copyright.] London, Aug. 16. It is reported from Paris that Communist regiments are being despatched to the interior of Russia with orders to shoot the starving peasantry who are trying to cross from one Government to another A message from Riga states that Litvinoff has advised the American Commissioners that the Soviet will not allow any American who was in Russia during the revolution to accompany the relief organisations. It is contended that this decision is due to the fact that the Americans have seen and know too much and could not be deceived by the Bolsheviks. A PRINCESS’S ESCAPE. Princess Titiana Kourakin has arrived in Paris. She was imprisoned for three months in Russia and escaped by pretending marriage with a Bolshevik, paying him 12,000,000 roubles to play his part.—(Reuter). NANSEN COMMANDS U.S. RELIEF. COMMITTEE. (Received 17, 11.15 a.m.) London. August 16. A telegram from Reval states that Fridtjog Nansen, the famous Norwegian explorer, has been appointed head of the American relief committee in Russia.—(A. and N.Z.) BRITISH ACQUIRE CONCESSIONS. LN LARGE BLACK SEA DOCKYARD SOVIET GETS 25 PER CENT. COMMISSION. (Received 17, 11.15 a.m.) Copenhagen, August 16. The “Politiken’s’’ Reval correspondent says that a British financial group interested in Vickers and Armstrong has practically completed arrangements to acquire a- concession in Russia’s largest dockyard at Nicolaeff. in the Biack Sea. The Soviet receives a commission of 25 per cent on the output.— (A. and N.Z.)