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Show DISPATCHES COMFORT PACKER'S RELATIVES Ogden Young Man Is in United States Service in Midst of Revolution at Petrograd. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. Nov. 8.The belated dispatches dis-patches from Ambassador Francis to the state department at Washington, T. C., yesterday, stating that no Americans had neen killed or tnlured during the trouble In Petrograd. allayed to some extent the anxiety of relatives of Karl T.. r'acke.r. son of Mrs. Kllen FJ. Packer, residing a 2933 Grant avenue. The Ogden man is a clerk in the American cmba-eay In Petro-grad. Petro-grad. Sir. Packer, who left Ogden about two years ago. was a clerk in one of the state department branches at AVashingl.on, D. C, before accepting the post in Ttussia. It requires about thirty days for a letter to make the long journey to this city, jtnd the relatives of the Ogden man have not hea rd f rorn hi i n i n svera 1 week s. Accord Ac-cord Ing to the press dispatches telling of Ambassador Francis's report, outgoing messages are evidently being held up by the authorities in the Russian capital. His message of Saturday was dated November 13, and there had been no report re-port previous s'uve November .1. In a letter to his relatives more t ban a month ago. Mr. Packer told of the freemen fre-emen t uprisings under the Kerensky regime, and that there was widespread suffering on account of the high cost of food. The Ogden man was among a large number of American government employees em-ployees in Russia who were granted In-clenses In-clenses In salary several months ago because be-cause of the greatly increased cost of food. |