RUSSIAN FAMINE.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXI, 11 August 1921, Page 4

RUSSIAN FAMINE.

0 AMERICAN PRISONERS RELEASED By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, August 9. Advices from Warsaw state that it is understood that the Soviet Government despatched to Riga all American citizens hitherto detained in Russia. In other respects they are hastening to fulfil Mr Hoover’s conditions for relief in Russia. NEW MOSCOW AGITATION. LONDON, August 9. Moscow reports that many agitators are working up the masses, declaring that Britain and Germany demand the restoration of a monarch in Russia, the candidate fpr Czar being the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovitch, who” by order of Rasputin gave tho first impulse towards revolution. APPEAL BY THE POPE. ROME, August 9. A correspondent states that the Pope has invited the Papal Secretary of State to call the attention of all Governments to the necessity for common action to help Russia. SPREAD TO POLAND. LONDON, August 10. The “Daily Telegraph” correspondent at Vilna reports that, despite the strongest measures against the introduction of infection from Russia, Asiatic cholera is travelling westward. Eight cases are already confirmed in one Polish frontier district. At the end of July there were 130,000 cholera victims in Russia.

RED CROSS RELIEF. London, yesterday. The Imperial War Relief Fund has issued an appeal signed by the Lord Mayor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and many notables, for help to Russia. The funds collected will be administered by the Red Cross. The Daily Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent says that Lenin in a disingenuous appeal for help, seeks to make it appear to the proletariat that whatever help comes will be by the efforts of the international proletariat, not the capitalist Warsaw, yesterday. A great fire is raging at Pinsk. Over 300 houses and churches are aldeady destroyed. Forests outside the town are also afire. TERRIBLE STORIES. Terrible stories come from Saratoff where parents are drowning their children to save them from starvation.