RUSSIA'S WORST TRAGEDY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17843, 26 July 1921, Page 5

RUSSIA'S WORST TRAGEDY.

r APPEAL FOR FOREIGN AID.

30,000,000 STARVING PEASANTS.

ARMY THREATENS REVOLT. Ey T«lesrar>h—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 10.30 p.m.) A. and HZ. IX3NDON. July 25. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Express states that the Russian Soviet Government is panic-stricken, and despairs of relieving without foreign aid the 30.000,000 starving peasantry of South Russia. The Bolshevik leaders are now conferring with old Tory leaders, with a view to coping with the most dreadful tragedy that ha a ever afflicted Russia. The Soviet Government is faced with a jrrave peril in the starving military, which already threaten to revolt. There is also & possibility of Trotzky proclaiming himself military dictator. Germany and the Central European States are bending relief on condition that they are permitted to supervise its distribution. The Soviet Government, through Maxim Gorky, }ia s appealed to German doctors to give services. All Soviet representatives abroad have b-en ordered to appeal to the Powers for food supplies. 'AMERICA READY TO HELP. SEVEN CONDITIONS STATED. JTLL FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. n>d. 11.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON. July 25. Mr. IT. C. Hoover. United States Secretary for Commerce, in reply to Maxim Gorky's appeal for relief, points out that the United States Relief Administration would accord snch aid to the women, children, and sick of Russia unofficially. He. adds that the United States conld furnish the necessary supplement of food, cothing. and medical supplies for a million children in Russia as soon as organisation could be effected. The reply concludes; The conditions of Mich relief are identically the same as those established in every one of tie 23 countries where American relief operations have been conducted. These are :— 1. The Moscow Soviet shall authorise and inform the United States Relief Administration at Riga that such assistance is necessary. 2. The American representatives of the Relief Administration shall be given full liberty to come, go, and move about Russia. 3. These representatives shall be allowed to organise necessary local committees and local assistance free from Governmental interference. 4. They shall be given free transportation for imported supplier with priority over other traffic. 5. The Soviet authorities shall assign necessary buildings, equipment and fuel gratuitously. 6. In addition to imported food, clothing and medicines, children and sick must be given the same rations of such loi-al supplies as are given to the rest of tiie population. 7. The relief organisation promises to distribute its supplies without consideration of race, creed or colour, and not to engage in political activities.