RUSSIAN FAMINE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18321, 11 August 1921, Page 5

RUSSIAN FAMINE

HELP FROM AMERICA. CONDITIONS COMPLIED WITH. THE MONARCHY BOGEY. Pssm Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August '4. Advices from Warsaw state that it Is understood that the Soviet Government has despatched to Riga all American citizens hitherto detained in Russia. In other respects the Soviet is hastening to fulfil Mr Hoover’s conditions for relief in Russia.—Times. Moscow reports that agitators .are misleading the masses by declaring that Great Britain and Germany are demanding the restoration of the Monarchy in Russia, their candidate for Czar being the Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovitch, who by the order of Rasputin gave the first impulse towards a revolution.—Times. THE POPE’S SYMPATHY. ROME, August 9. A press correspondent states that the Pope has invited the Papal Secretary of State to call the attention of all the Governments to the necessity for common action to help Russia.—Times. * THE CHOLERA SCOURGE. STEADY SPREAD WESTWARD. LONDON, August 9. (Received Aug. 10, at 8.30 p.m.) The Daily Telegraph’s correspondent at Vilna reports that, despite the strictest measures against the introduction of infection from Russia, Asiatic cholera is travelling westward. Eight cases have already been confirmed in one Polish frontier district. At the end of July there were 130,000 cholera victims in Russia.—A. and N.Z. Cable.