RUSSIAN FAMINE.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1921, Page 5

RUSSIAN FAMINE.

CHANGES AGAINST RED CROSS. MISERY OF PRISONERS. SEIZURE OF RELIEF FOOD. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright* Received September 7, 7.30 p.m. Paris, Sept. 6. According to Moscow advices, the Bolshevik newspapers assert that the American agents who participated in the revolutionary plot recently discovered in Petrograd belonged to the American Red Cross. Captain Kilpatrick has arrived in Paris after nine months’ detention in Soviet prisons. He says that between 150,000 and 200,000 prisoners of thirty nationalities are suffering untold misery in Moscow alone. He reported that the Red soldiery recently concentrated at Yamburg seized the first food shipment of American famine relief food en route from Riga to Moscow. —Reuter Service. WAVE OF TERROR. CONSPIRATORS SHOT WHOLESALE. SOVIET WANTS TEN MILLIONS. Helsingfors, Sept. G. Another wave of terror is sweeping Petrograd. The Pravda publishes a list of 61 shot following the recent conspiracy against the Communist regime, including a number of eminent artists and scientists, also officers, students, sailors and several women. Of 800 alleged conspirators 80 per cent, were Soviet officers. London, Sept. 6. Under the agreement between the Soviet Government and Dr. Nansen the Soviet Government has requested Dr. Nansen to ask the European Governments for a credit of £10,000,000. The Soviet declares that it is ready to assume the obligation of demanding from its Governments that they shall provide credits for the distribution of help, which will be carried out through the International Executive for Russian Help at Moscow, assisted by a limited number of representatives of the lending Governments.