SOVIET RUSSIA

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 23 July 1923, Page 2

SOVIET RUSSIA

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT WARSAW, July 21. A party of American University men which has been working in Russia for a year for tiie American Relief Association, and is now journeying home, expressed relief that they were no longer under the Soviet regime. Some had worked in Moscow and Petrograd but the majority in the lands of tiie peasant, where their task was not only the distribution of food but the guarding of it from the raids of Soviet authorities. There is not one in the party who believes that any civilised nation should even consider relations with the Soviet regime. They admit they began with doubt of the wisdom of the American relief intervention but women and children have been saved. That was the only thing which had given the party satisfaction. They are full of wrath against the American Congressmen who have been speechmaking in favour of Russia, after stage managed tours during which the visitors were surrounded by Soviet spies and made - sort of Cook’s tour along the route where shop windows were dressed for their special benefit.