Show ID gj Sa MUST fEED r RUSSIA SAYS REPORT NS Allied food Committee Acute Shortage Short Short- age ge of ofrain Grain rain r By Associated Press S ARCHANGEL March H tI tion n secured by the allied food committee com com- ommittee om- om in north Hussla and from persons persons per per- sons reaching Archangel l from the Interior In- In tenor indIcates that the American people people peo- peo must deprIve themselves of breadstuffs bread bread- stuffs until the RussIan question is i I settled and the country is again placed on on a sound agricultural basIs I Pea ants are hesitating hesitating- to sow anymore any moro more grain than they themselves es need as they fear Its seizure by the viki Owing to the shortage of seed grain whIch has been used for food Russia wIll be without crops in 1919 and this condition will willI extend into 1920 even if the country is restored to peace I The outsIde world particularlY America must e prepared to feed the I most of the Rus Russian lan people for at least sIx months after peace Is restored a member of the food committee said long longas Russia remaIns remains re- re today And so long as maIns without crops the Test rest of Europe Europe Eu- Eu rope must also look t toward toward-t ward erica for the grain which former pou poured d out of Russia's Baltic and Bla Black k sea ports ALLIES ALLIES' LOSSES LIGHT Compared to losses inflicted inflicted upon the I pared to the losses inflIcted upon the enemy the allied casualties in the I fighting along the Vaga river since February 28 have been extremely I light It Is estimated that the Bol- Bol have lost at least killed The AmerIcan casualties from February 28 to March 9 inclusive were five killed on the Vaga front and ten on the front No officers officers of- of were killed One American soldIer soldier sol sol- dIer Is missIng and two officers and thIrty men were wounded The total American casualties to date in north Russia follow 1 Killed in Officers action 4 men I 71 DIed of wounds Officers 1 men 18 l Missing Men Ien 36 DIed of Officers dIsease 2 men 67 Wounded Officers 11 men HEALTH OF FORCES The health of the expedItIonary forces sInce the Spanish influenza epidemIc in September and October has been excellent Of the sixty nine deaths from dIsease three sixty occurred occurred oc- oc before January 4 Throughout the fighting the American troops have generally been greatly outnumbered but the losses inflicted upon up-on the enemy enemy en- en emy have been at least five times those suffered by the AmerIcans As then mobilized RussIan troops are becomIng trained they are gradually grad grad- relievIng the straIn to whIch the AmerIcan British and French forces were put in the early days of the campaIgn All American troops are arenow arenow now enjoYing enjoYing- regular rest perIods eIther at Archangel or at convenient villages behind the lines As a result of the recent allied advance advance ad- ad vance southward along the raIlroad part of another Russian provInce was added to the territory of the government of the north M. M assIstant governor governor ov gov- general of has been appoInted provIncIal commIssIoner of OFFICERS OFFICERS' KIN SLAIN By Associated Press i STOCKHOLM March 1 All the I relatives of offIcers of the Eighty Eighty- sIxth RussIan regIment which went over to the White guards as agaInst the sovIet government have been executed to a dIspatch from Petrograd The executions were ordered by the mIlItary revolutionary committee of Petrograd SIBERIA IN DANGER By Associated Press HONOLULU T. T II H. March Gen H.-Gen- I eral Robert ParIs of the French army I returning from SIberIa where he was wasI associated with the Slovak Czecho I command said today through his aIde 1 that unless the tho allies intervened imI immediately im- im mediately with suffIcIent forces the I would overwhelm Siberia I and the Germans would gain an unI unshakable un- un I shakable grip on Russia He said the Czechs having lost half i their strength and being worn out and without support were ero withdrawIng leaving SiberIa helpless Conditions were growIng worse steadily Ten dIvisions divisions dI- dI visions he sam said could reach Moscow through Siberia and reestablish order In Russia CLAIMS OF By Associated Press LO LONDON DON March l The H.-The Bolshevik general staff at Moscow claims that during curing January and February the Bolshevik Bol- Bol army occupIed territory the size of France having 1055 miles of I raIlroad under Its control and declares I that the soviet troops will reach Archangel Archangel Arch Arch- angel by May I 1 according to a liel- liel dispatch to the Mail 1 I After tho entered Kiev i they are saId to have executed Professor I I sor Baranovsky r an economist who was recently appointed to represent UkraIne In ParIs Professor Profesor Zabo- Zabo I Professor Efimenko General Bel Bel- bachan eleven newspaper men and andI of the municipality are the tho president I I also reported to have been executed |