RUSSIA FROM WITHIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18458, 23 July 1923, Page 8

RUSSIA FROM WITHIN.

DARK HCTURB MINTED. ; __ . AMERICAN; RELIEF WORKERS. ' f KO BRIEF FOR THE SOVIET. ■{■■' "''" By Telefftaph—Press Association— Copyright. \\i.: "- v ':';-••.;' (Received 4-8 p.m.) ■'■:■ ■ ■■'■"-^.^■'ind K.Z. ■: V .WARSAW. July 21. V. •: ■ A party of American University men ' who have been working in "Russia during < ■ '- the ; past year, for 'the American Relief ' Association, are now journeying homo. / ' '" On arriving here, they expressed relief that -they were no longer under the Soviet v! regime,. "Bomo had worked in Moscow ■ v and Petrograd, but the majority in the - lands of the peasant, where their task / r''was not only the distribution of food, but ■" ''■■.', 'guarding. it ■■ front raids of ; the Soviet '. : ' .-.. authorities. ■ , . ;;.■.' ■ . '■ "]'•• There is not one member of the party ! ■ \" who, ■believes that any civilised nation "'' should" ov«n consider relations .with the ' Soviet regime. They admit that they began to. doubt the wisdom of American v •. relief intervention/ but women and child-j ren hnd. been saved from starvation ; that *■'•/:■■: was the only thing which had given the j ; v party satisfaction. 1 ■•.■;'-- They 'aro full of wrath against Ameri--1 V:can congressmen who have been speak- "'.-; ing in favour of Russia after stage-man- / aged tours during which the visitors were surrounded by Soviet spies and made a , '■%■ sort of " Cook's Tour" along a route • where the shop "windows had been dressed ?'';..' .. for their special benefit. ;; 'SOVIET BANS CINDERELLA SUBVERSIVE INFLUENCE. A. and N.Z LONDON, • July 20. The Petrograd correspondent of the j I Morning Post states that :ho story of "Cinderella" has ■ been included in the '-,'. ', ■" Bolshevik index of prosorib-sd literature - ; as it is considered to be a counter-blast i* -to revolutionary works. ""■•This was a sequel to a performance of f I'-'-t the pantomime at the Children's Theatre, ." ?11 Petrograd. .', Newspaper critics indulged in an orgy of j sarcasm at s its so-called it; I • "good times" when the world was gov- : erned by Tsars, Kings, and "Prince ■y- ' '':;;;,.Charmiiigs.".: ' -