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Allied Council
Votes to Send
Russia Relief
Premiers, at the Suggestion
of Briand, I naiiiiiiously |
Favor Immediate Succor:
for the Famine-StrickenI
May Join With America;
Italy and Japan Pledge
Co-operation in Movement j
to Co-ordinate Agencies j
By Wilbur Forrest
Special Cable to The Tribun*
Copyright. 1921, New York Tribune Inc.
PARIS, Aug. 10. -The Supreme Allied
.... decided unanimously to-day to
rvene in tho Russian famine situa
, he formation of a joint inter?
national commission will be announced
Icmorrow to study the most efficacious
methods of taking relief to the 18,
000,000 to 2.r),000,000 Russian?, who,
Premier Lloyd George told the coun?
cil, were in desperate plight from
hunger and disease.
Premier Briand of France broached
the famine question at the close of a
busy day, in which the council voted
that the Allies should preserve their
neutrality in the Greco-Turkish war
? ? Asia Minor and called on Marshal
Koch to report tho status of Gorman
disarmament.
The important problem of the parti?
tion of Upper Silesia between Germany
and Poland, on which the technical ex?
perts had been working hard all day,
momentarily was forgotten by the
Premiers and others sitting at the
council table.
Premier Briand, in a brief speech,
said that the council could not neglect
to concern itself with the great suffer
jng of the Russian people and "we
Allies cannot forget the great help
riven us by Russia in tho first year of
the war."
Must Second United Slates Effort
"? suggest," ho said, "that we find
method to associate ourselves
the Red Cross and other big hu
rian societies such as the com
M Mr. Hoover heads. We must
the American effort and. if
: le, use to the utmost the excel?
lent organization in Czech o-Slovakia in
to ;et in touch with the Rus
?uffering in this tremendous
. . -.,;?
id calle 1 on his fellow coun
jestions and Premier!
Lloyd George pointed out that full
mm ; necessary on the essen-|
' the plan initiated by Premier j
; ugh he sketched the great i
ty of getting practical relief to
i vast nun,lier of sufferers. The
would be increased, the
' said, unless the Rus
provided all the
facilities til command.
aid could be aecom
interior of Russia, he
? i-ganization o? Russian
?I m- ca m e there remained
oi m lil ?? the Ukraine, where
id and whose food
transferred to the
; tricts if transports were
?
Harvey to Make Report
? mi of Italy and Baron
Ambassador to
Gr at Britain, pledged that their gov
would cooperate in any
Allies d icided upon.
ter Jasper of. Belgium
? thai there must hn an in
ittee to coordinate the
? : i re i ? lief plan.
nier Briand called on Ambassa
ixplain the Hoover re
stem and the Ambassador in a
br '" ? menl lid he would gather
desired and submit
it to the council, and that, of course,
. : ? ' ec the Allied
bon n rh;s work, which
be vi "v difl icult for one na
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- . : - me Council deciden to con
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Ru ian relief. The corn
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ci d when the council re
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Invitations to Arms Conference
Drafted and Ready To Be Sent
Envoys of Five Powers Addressed Consulted on Size
of Delegation Each Will Send ; Five or
Six Regarded as Proper
WASHINGTON. Aug. 10. Diplomatie ;
negotiations preliminary to the disarm
ament conference reached n formal
stag? for the first time to-day, when
the State Department drafted notes of
invitation to the fiv*e powers that are to
be asked to participate.
Although officials declined to divulge
details of the move, it is understood
that the communications were brief
and set forth in general terms the pur?
poses for which the powers are re?
quested to send delegates to meet in
Washington on November 11. The text
may be made public later.
While the notes were in process of
formulation the department is under?
stood to have consulted with diplomatic
representatives of the participating na?
tions relative to the number of prin?
cipa! delegates each is to send to the
conference. It was indicated that of
ficials here desired to make the num
ber suggested in the invitation con?
form as nearly as possible to the con?
sensus among the powers addressed,
although the opinion here was that in
the interest of ?"acuity the representa?
tivos of each participant ought not to
exceed five or six.
Late to-day Secretary Hughes con?
ferred at. length with President ?lar
?'ing, and it was indicated afterward
that the draft of the invitations wai
virtually complete. They may go for?
ward within a few hours.
Commission to Pick Chinese
Envoys to Arms Conference
PEKING, Aug. 10.?The Foreign Of?
fice will appoint n special commission
to select the Chin?se delegation and
prepare China's program for the Wasn
ington disarmament and Far Eastern
conference. This action will remove
questions concerning the conference
from Cabinet politic?. It is to be un?
dertaken with the consent of the Cab
1 ?net.
eign Minister, who has just returned
after two months in Smyrna, told the
Tribune correspondent to-day that the
fruits of Constantine's recent, victories
would be secure for at least six
months, but that Greece would not he
able to prosecute the war successfully
after that, unless the Allies recognized
her cause and extended credits. The
action of the council in decreeing a
war to exhaustion, he believes, how?
ever, is mor." favorable to the Greeks
because the Kemalist forces are so
weakened that they are not able to
threaten a serious counter-offensive
and the danger of aid from the Bolshe
viki or the Islamite countries to the
north and east is now negligible.
Briand Defends Stand
Lord Curzon, the British Foreign
Secretary, this afternoon seconded the
demand of Marquis Delia Torretta, the
Italian Foreign Minister, for the sup?
pression of the Allied control commis?
sion now in Germany directing Ger?
man disarmament. The commission is
composed of at least five hundred offi?
cers of the various allies, and was de?
scribed by Lord Curzon as a continued
menace to peaceful relations between
Germany and the Allies. Lord Curzon
suggested that the matter of disarma?
ment should be placed under the con?
trol of the League of Nations, in con?
formity to the Versailles Treaty.
The proposal drew pointed criticism
of the capabilities "of the League of
Nations from Premier Briand and led
to a statement of the French position ;
on the German disarmament problem.
"I would like to be as generous to?
ward Germany as you British and Ital?
ians are," Briand retorted, "but France
is in ? special position. Only three
months ago Germany was refusing to
disarm.
"We recently have found large quan?
tities of munitions hidden in Upper
Silesia and the manufacture of Ger?
man aircraft continues. The League
of Nations is powerless and we cannot
rely on it. The league is not yet suf?
ficiently organized for this work."
The Belgian Foreign Minister' agreed
with Briand. Lord Curzon resumed
the argument, whereupon Lloyd George
intervened as mediator.
The British Premier asked Briand
whether he was willing to take milk
or beefsteak from a cow and suggested
| that the Allies must come to an agree
| ment on the' disarmament matter.
There are two policies, Lloyd George
added, the milk policy and the beef.steal:
? policy.
Briand retorted. "We will only take
j rnilk if the cow does not attack us."
The Supreme Council decided to re
I fer the whole question to Marshal
; Foch's commission at Versailles, with
i instructions to present a complete re?
port to the council on how far Ger?
many's disarmament has progressed,
what yet is to be done and also to form?
ulate suggestions as to who the Allies'
course should be in the future in refer?
ence to this problem.
? British Asked to Free
Irish Soldiers in Prison
I Dublin Paper Pleads for Gen?
eral Amnesty; Viceroy At?
tends Horse Fair in Stale
DUBLIN, Aug. 10 ? By The Associated
Press).- The Irish Rullrtin pleads
: strongly for justice in the case of hun
I dreds of Irish soldiers serving prison
? sentences for "bearing arms in defense
, of their country.'' and t);?'usands of
I others interned without charge or im
I prisoned awaiting trial and deprived of
hi.mane treatment.
The Bullf tin asks how justice or con?
sistency can deny * o these the status
now admittedly possessed by John J,
M'Keown and other members of the
: Irish republican Parliament.
"If a settlement is possible," says
: The Bulletin, "it. can only be reached
through mutual respect between the
[ British and Iri.ih peoples."
Viceroy Fitzalan, accompanied by
f.aiiy Fitzalan, to-day [jai?l a state visit
to the horse show.
This was the first time in many years
i that the Viceroy and the Vicereine
have attended the function. Their visit
to-day was carried oui amid the <?!<i
time pageantry and gave an impression
o? peace and good-will which had been
? r ?i, recent years at this national
: inction.
Several of the members of the Hail
Bireann recently released from prison,
in eluding John J. McKeown, were pres
< ii'.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. Harry Bo
land, head of the Iris!) diplomats m -
?ion to the United Slates, will return
to Ireland to attend the meeting of Dail
Eireann. A safe conduct for him i
being arranged.
Premier ilara Sees Step
Toward Peace in Parley
insists Maintenance of Order
in Far Fast Hus Been
Japan's Constant Aim
".PPORO, Jap:??. Aug. 10 i By The
ociated Pre?i L Addressing a meet?
ing of three thousand members of the.
. kai, or government party, in ??
?ion her?: to day, Premier JI .-? j .-1 said he
wanted to emphasize the fact that the
Japanese authorities were determined
to attend the forthcoming Washington
dl armament conference "with all sin
<:<?/?.i.v. because th<'y bow to the con
'.'/-. that the realization of limita
tion of armaments is a real!', broad
step toward the promotion of world
The maintenance of peace In the Fai
\... t, he '('?Hl, lia* been t???' constant
aim of the Japanese nation. Ho said
it was true that Japan l>ai omi
times laid herself open to mlsunder
h tan dings In the ? tl nation of foreign
powers m regard to her policio?! in the
Far East, hut that since ihe establish?
ment of the pre-,?'o?. ministry the ntti*
tude '>f those countries ),nd bean con
/'.o'B?y peaceful,
Six Americans,
Freed by Reds,
Arrive at Reval
(Contlnuod trom page our)
stopped at the bor,1er, but were
brought to Reval for cleansing by the
American Red Cross, which will care
for them until they are rested and
ready tn travel.
The Americans are unanimous in
their belief that no group is develop?
ing strength likely to upset the Bol?
shevik government, but think that
famine may achieve its overthrow be?
cause the masses belittle the govern?
ment for the reason that it has aban?
doned the first principles of Com?
munism and has faiie?! to execute its
decrees.
In the opinion of the former
prisoners, famine conditions are exag?
gerated. They say it is impossible to
differentiate between famine and the
misery which is rampant throughout
the whole of Russia. They were en?
thusiastic over American relief and
advocate the sending of all foreigners
possible into Russia so as to advertise
to the world the country's actual con?
ditions. ?
Xenophon B. Kalmntinno, who was
in prison for about three years, wan
the-most composed and best dressed in
the group, resembling the conventional
American tourist. In his new raiment
he showed little effects of his imprison?
ment, although he had been under sen?
tence of death for more than a year.
Owing to his knowledge of the Rus?
sian language he was able to ingratiate
himself with the prison officials and
render great assistance to the other
prisoners, who are loud in his praise
as their chief comforter.
Captain Kilpatrick and Mr. Pastes ap?
peared to he the worst sufferers from
iheir hardships and are in a highly
nervous state. Kilpatrick said he had
had only two baths in a year. He. in?
tends to proceed to .sonn; European
cure for a long rest.
No Money to Transfer
Emperor Charles to Spain
Former Austrian Monarch Mar
Be Perrnitied to Remain
in Berne
BERNE, Aug. 10 (By The Associated
Press). The transfer of former Em?
peror Chai'es of Austria to Spain in?
volves a question of ways and means,
according to a statement made in reli?
able quarters here to-day. The present
establishment of Charles, aggregating
fifty persons, is costing from 80,000
to 100*000 francs a month. Up to this
time the money has been furnished by
his friends and adherents, but the
source, it is said, is becoming exhausted.
The Spanish government, it is de?
clared, has announced that a drastic
reduction in Charles establishment will
be a condition to his admission to Spain.
It is reported that the negotiations pro?
ceeding in Hungary to induce the gov?
ernment then to pay an allowance
to Charles in the event of his removal
to Spain, ywhich was considered the
most likely solution of the situation,
are fa llint?through.
Switzerland, it. is said, is prepared
to extend its permission to Charles to
reside in this country. The terms under
which he is /now staying here expires
August 31.
Harrison Stirs
Up Debate on
German Treaty
Lodge Tells Mississippian!
Senate Will Get Report
in Due Time Regarding
Result of Negotiations
-
Johnson. Answers Taunts
Will Continue His Queries;
Congratulates Harding
on Call to Arms Parley
From The Tribune's Washington Bxirr.au
WASHINGTON', Aug. 10.--Senator
Pat Harrison, of Mississippi, railing at
the Republicans, stirred up a debate
on the treats negotiations with Ger?
many in the Senate to-day by reading
1rom newspaper articles to show that
Republican members of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee and Re?
publican Senators generally are being
kepi in the dark and not taken into the
confidence of the Administration with
respect to 'the peace treaty negoti?
ations. He recalled in this connection
the Republican criticisms of President
Wilson for secret diplomacy.
Senators Lodge and Hiram Johnson
were drawn into the debate. Both de?
clined to have Senator Harrison por?
tray their attitude as hostile to the
Administration.
Harrison Twits Republicans
After reading from newspapers :o
show Republican Senators do not, know
what negotiations are going on with
Germany, Senator Harrison suid:
"I am not surprised at your being
in a state of chagrin and ignorance
and discontent over this proposition,
and having a growing feeling against
the State Department, for not taking
you into it? confidence. 1 am a little
surprised, however, that the present
Administration is not keeping up with
the policy which it laid down in the
beginning, that there would be sweet
cooperation, always the happiest kind,
between the Senate and the Adminis?
tration, tliHt you would be kept ad?
vised touching each step in these deli?
cate diplomatic negotiations, especi?
ally on a proposition of so much im?
portance as that of making peace be?
tween this government, and Germany.
"It has been supposed right, along
that President Harding and Secretary
Hughes had been consulting the Senate
Senator Lodge, himself, heretofore has
insisted that the Senate had a. right
to have, its say in advance of an actual
signing of a peace treaty. Why, I
have heard him grow eloquent in stand?
ing for the Senate's rights from th?
beginning of negotiations of treaty re?
lationships between this and foreign
governments."
"That was not the case," said Sena?
tor Lodge. "I have said and with snnif
energy that we were entitled to have
all the information about the negotia?
tions after the treaty was presented."
"Has the Senator changed his min<
recently?" asked Senator Harrison.
No Information on Peace Treaty
"No," replied Mr. Lodge. "After tin
treaty was presented we were entitle?
to it. We never yet. have had informa
tion on the Versailles treaty."
"The Senator has nothing on th?
German treaty at all? He professes ab
solute ignorance," Senator Harrisoi
continued.
"That is not yet before us," re
sponded Mr. Lodge.
"Can vou tell when it will be befon
us?" persisted Senator Harrison.
"1 am not negotiating the tr?aty,'
retorted Senator Lodge.
"I am sorry," continued Mr. Harri
son, "ihe Senator is not on friendl;
terms with the Secretary of State am
the President as it wa.-? thought h?
would be."
"'I hose terms." replied Senato
Lodge, "I think trie President and Sec
rotary of State and myself can discus:
perfectly well."
Senator King said that before th
I eague of Nations draft had been com
pleted President Wilson disclosed i
tentative plan to the Senate and invitei
constructive criticism, which was sup
plied by Mr. Root, Mr. Taft, Senator
and others.
"I did not criticize President Wilsoi
at all for submitting his draft of th?
League of Nations," said Senator Lodge
"All I said was that he wanted criti
cism of it and he go' it."
"I understand now," Sena'or Harri
snti -vent on, "that the Senator fro;:
Massachusetts is really praising Presi
dent. Wilson for taking the Senate int
his confidence and indirectly criticizin
the present President for not. takin
the Senate into his confidence."
"No," replied Senator Lodge, "whe
! speak my views of the two President
I shall do it myself, and not ask th
Senator from Mississippi to interprc
them for me."
Johnson Denies Hostility to Harding
Senator Hiram Johnson denied ho:
tility to the President and said som
I of the newspaper articles did injustit
to Senator Lodge, II?* asserted that r.
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was opposed to the railroad funding
bill, but did not intend to be put in an j
attitude of hostility to the Administra- j
?ion because of this.
He held the troops should be brought
home from Germany, but denied this
meant "hostility to the Administra?
tion."
Saying he was curious to know about
the treaty and about numerous other
things and intended to ask questions
about them as he saw tit, he added:
"I am curious about the debts out?
standing between this country and for?
eign countries. 1 am curious to know '
why we paid $32,000,000 to England,
said to be for transporting American
troops to the other side during the\
World War, when we had claims against ?
her aggregating $12,000.000 or $14,000,
000. I am informed that not only have :
we paid England 332,000,000. but that
we have paid?and I am stating this
only as information given to me?$100,- \
000,000 for the same item. I am in- !
formed that we also paid $0,000,000 on I
the debt we owe for transporting our ?
troops to help in winning the war;
when we had a large offset.
"[ have seen reports to the effect !
that, international bankers had stated ?
that if we collected the interest due !
us, it would destroy stabilities et\
the countries abroad and tnreaten ruin
to our own country. ! have heard
economists on this floor make state-!
ments to the same effect. I decline to I
concede the correctness of their state
ments.
Johnson Asks Information
"I am curious to know all about ?
these things and 1 nave asked and !
shall ask questions about them just
as i asked Senator Lodge if he knew |
anything about the treaty negotia?
tions, He responded that he did not.
1 have asked several other members of j
the Foreign Relations Committee the j
same question. 1 should like to have j
the information. I am not content, j
however, to let pass unnoticed the dis?
tortion applied to this by the .Senator?
from Mississippi.
"I am curious about another thing. '
I believe in reduction of armaments
and 1 congratulate the Senator from
Idaho for having won the greatest
personal victory [ have ever seen any
Senator win during my service in this
body. 1 congratulate President Har?
ding and Secretary Hughes for hav?
ing arranged for the holding of an
international conference on the limita?
tion of armaments. 1 hope and pray
that it may he a success in every re?
spect.
"I believe that the first test in that
conference will be whether it is held in
the open or ?j* secrecy. 1 hope that
disarmament will be considered in the
open, so that the peoples of the earth
may he constructively present, and
that the public opinion of the various
countries will be able to affect that
conference anil direct its will in behalf
of nil the people."
Native Revolt Spreads
To Western Morocco
MADRID, Aug. L0.?Hostilities be?
tween the Spanish and the Moroccan
tribesmen, which have been going on
in l'astern .Morocco for the last three
weeks and which have resulted in a
virtual collapse of the Spanish cam?
paign there, appear to have spread into
Western Morocco. The Spanish Com?
mandant at Tetuan reports that H if
tribesmen on Sunday attack"?! the
blockhouse at Meijas, in the Tetuan
district, and that the garrison, after
losing several men, was obliged to fall
back upon Gouk-el-Arba. The Com?
mandant has declared that the incident
was not important.
LONDON, Aug.. 10. The Spanish
Ambassador here, Alfonso Merry del
Val, announced to-day that he was au?
thorized to deny rumors describing the
situation at MeliJIa as desperate. The
Ambassador said a telegram from Mad?
rid, timed at 10:30 o'clock Tuesday
night, said reinforcements were con?
tinuing to arrive In Mel ilia from
Spain, that the defenses of the city
were being extended toward the in?
terior and that preparations were be?
ing made for a Spnnish advance.
Order continued to prevail in Spain.
the message added, and the departure
of additional troops for Morocco was
occurring amid scenes of enthusiasm
on the part of the public and the men
t hoiuselves.
( iost of Living in Germany
Advances 67 Points in July
BERLIN, Aug. 10. Th.- cost of liv?
ing in Germany, as computed by the
National liureau of Statistics, show-;
tiiat July was the costliest month of
the year thus far. The index figure in
the computations was fixed at 963 for
July as against 924 for January and
896 for June.
Municipal employees of the admin?
istration of Creator Berlin are formu?
lating a joint demand for wage in?
creases in anticipation of new ta:
le\ -, increased prices of bread an
higher rents.
U. S. Supplies !
To Be Hurried
Into Russia
'Continuel! (rom paoo an?)
International Red Gross Society, which j
begins next Monday.
The conference will study ways and ,
means for organizing relief v,-ork in
famine-stricken Russia. The American j
Red Cross will cooperate in the work ;
to be undertaken as a result of the
Geneva conference, but its part will be
in complete harmony with the Ameri- ,
can Relief Association, headed by Her- j
bert Hoover, and in accordance with the !
wishes and instructions of the State
Department at Washington,
It is the present intention of the
American Red Cross to devote special
attention to surgical supplies, nursing
the sick and feeding children, the aged j
and invalids.
Reports tend to show that the situa?
tion in Russia is rapidly growing worse. \
Pattinger, of San Francisco, was cap
tured near Vladivostok while serving1
as a private in the American armv.
He was shuffled gradually westward !
until he reached the Moscow prison i
camp, where the Bolsheviki forced him j
to sign papers, he says, admitting that ]
he whs a Communist. He signed vari
Otts statements in assumed names, one !
being Hasenbladt, which appeared in
the Bolshevik list submitted when the
releases were announced.
The Americans, discussing the fail- ;
ure to release Royal C. Keely, an Amer?
ican engineer, declare that unquestior,
ably he should have fallen in the list !
of United States prisoners, as he left
prison on condition that he would as?
sume the direction of a Bolshevik fac?
tory, and consequently i'3 legally a
prisoner doing enforced work outside
of prison.
ON THE LETVIAN FRONTIER.
NEAR ZILUTE, Letvia, Aug. 10 ? By
The Associated Press). - Even their
own children are being left behind to
starve by the hunger-maddened peas?
ants fleeing to Siberia or the Ukraine
from hunger and death in the German
Volga colony, which is the worst af?
fected of all the places In the Russian
famine zone, according to German
colonists arriving at the frontier here
to-day.
"The roads along which swarms of
people are migrating are literally
sprinkled with the bodies of children,"
the colonists said. "Cholera is not
much in evidence, but death from
hunger is threatening everybody."
Reds Offer (Guaranty
To Let Americans Leave
Litvinoff Mahrs Proposal at*
Conference Over Question of
I . S. Aid to Famine Stricken
RIGA, Latvia, Aug 10 (By The As?
sociated Press).- A guaranty that all
Americans remaining in Russia will be
given an opportunity to leave that
country if they desire was offered to?
day by Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet repre?
sentative, at a conference with "' iter
L. Brown, European director of the
American Relief Administration, over
the question of American relief for
famine-stricken Russia.
This offer was made after the Amer?
ican representative bad inquired what
the Soviet government's intentions
were regarding the freeing of the
I Americans in Russia, other than six
I men of American nationality who have
just been released from Soviet confine
| ment and reached Reval, Esthonia, to
?lay.
It was understood that Director
Brown had made it a condition of open?
ing the negotiations for relief tha? all
Americans in Russia be given a chance
to leave that country.
The question of the acceptance of the
| guaranty rests with Herbert Hoover,
Secretary of Commerce and head of the
American relief administration.
Food for Million Children
Mr. Brown, in informing Litvinoff
that th? United States was ready to
go ahead with relief measures it' all
Americans in Russia were released,
added :
' of course, we would not tie up the
rjonference for several months while
some lone American in Siberia was de
ciding whethei he wanted to go home."
Mr, Brown said there was sufficient
food, probably enough to feed a million
children for one month, now in the
American Relief Association headquar?
ters in Danzig and Hamburg and ships
ready to load it, and that it. could b"
laid dowMi in Petrograd. Riga or Rcval
within a fortnight. He added that the
interior transport situation w-as so
complicated, however, that, lie was un?
able to say when the food could reach
the actual starving people.
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"Litvinoflf did not attempt to negotiate
anything except relief," said Mr. Brown
after the conference. Soon after his '
arrival in Riga, Litvinoflf sent Mr. '
Brown a note by M. Florinsky, his sec- ;
retary, saying that inasmuch as the
Americans who had been imprisoned
or were in detention camps had been I
sent out through Narva the Russian ;
Relief Committee considered that the !
American conditions had been ful?
filled and asked that Mr. Brown meet
Litvinoff at the Bolshevik Legation '
hero.
Mr. Brown verbally sent his compli?
ments to Litvinoff, with the intimation
that Litvinoff later would be notified
of the place whore the conference
would be held. This was arranged
through the Letvian Premier, who in-1
formed Litvinoff that Mr. Brown was
ready to meet him in the special con
ference chamber of the Letvian Foreign
Office. When Litvinoff arrived he found
motion picture photographers waiting ?
to film the unusual group of Americans
and Bolsheviki.
The conference was marked by good :
feeling, though .Vrr. Brown made it ex?
tremely plain to Litvinoff that Mr.
Hoover's note concerning the release of
Americans in Russia meant those out?
side as well as those inside prison.
After the conference, Florinsky, who
was Russian Vice Consul in New York ?
in the days of the empire, but who ?s
now Litvinoff's secretary, expressed
the opinion that the entire matter of
relief would be successfully settled on
Friday, the date of the next conference.
The American participants and the
official government representatives
were less outspoken. They said the
decision rested with Washington.
Soviet Makes Political
Capital of Famine Aid
Organ Quotes Senator France
That i'. S. Must Recognize
It Before Extending Relief
Snecial Cable to The Tribune
Copyright, 1921. New York Tribune Inc.
RIGA. Latvia. Aug. 10.?A large sec?
tion of public opinion in Russia can?
not divorce itself from the idea that
somehow the Russian Soviet govern?
ment will be able to make political cap?
ital out, of the famine relief negotia?
tions now in progress. In fact, in some
circles, the negotiations between M.
Litvinoff and Walter L. Brown, the
European director of relief, are re?
garded as the opening wedge for begin
ning relations between America an.!
.Soviet Russia.
The Novi Put, the Soviet organ here,
is frank on this point and says: "Sena?
tor Fiance was quite right when he as?
serted that the assistance Americans
would be able to give Russia must
: first be in the direction of recognition
??:' the Soviet."
"Only na?ve individuals." this news?
paper continues, "can think that this
deal toward Russia can be purely a
humanitarian and not also a political
; matter."
Because of this attitude the npgotin
' tions arc being watched with great in
j terest, not only here, but throughout
? Europe.
The Soviet press takes the attitiiile
t;,::1 the presenl crisis ultimately will
really work out to the advantage of the
Soviet and will result in strengthening
it. While on one hand the press pic
: tures the economic crisis in Russia in
! the blackest colors, the same papers .on
, the other hand, seem to think that, tho
! nations of the world will utilize famine
i relief as the entering wedge into Rus
! sia and be compelled to recognize the
! Soviet government.
Evidence is accumulating daily that
there is more politics in the Soviet
I plea for foreign aid in the famine
? crisis than honest intention to obtain
i such relief for the Russian people,
British JSotahles Irge
(?onerous Aid for Russia
LONDON, Aug. 10.--Ar. urgent appeal
?. me British people for "a generous
j national effort" in behalf of the starv
ing Russians has been issued by the im?
perial war relief fund, of which the
King is patron.
The signatories, among whom are the
Archbishop of Canterbury. Lord Bir
kenhead, Lord High Chancellor, and
many prominent politicians, writers
and clergymen, after emphasizing the
desperate conditions in Russia, say: "Of
all the countries scourged by the war
none has suffered so terribly as Russia
and none has received so little of the
healing gift of sympathy."'
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WASHINGTON. Aug. 10.'-The bat?
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the battle efficiency pennant for the
highest combined merit in gunnery and
engineering, according to an announce?
ment by the Navy Department to?
night. She has won the engineering
trophy two years in succession. The
battleships Idaho and Utah stood sec?
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