Show ICE IGE HAMPERS C RUSS RELIEf Only One Port for DeepWater Deep DeepWater DeepWater Water Ships Open REV REVAL AL Esthonia March 11 The The provisioning of starving Russia has hag become a task of ot battling with ice in ira the Baltic Reval is now the tho only port accommodating deep draft steamers which is comparatively free from ice and It is expected that many of tho the big freighters bearing grain from the United States will bring their cargOES cargoes car car- goes gOE'S here to be distributed in soviet Russia by th the American relief adminIstration admin admin- The American relief ad administration administration administration ad- ad ministration increased its personnel here to handle this traffic Other ships of lighter draft are discharging discharging dis dig charging at Windau Latvia iv whence hence a wide gauge Russian railway makes l direct connections with Avith Moscow S Petrograd has been Ice hound for several weeks and a number of ships ship mostly German freighters have been caught by the ice in the Finnish h gulf In the e waters about Reval itself frequently frequently fre fre- fre- fre light ships are surrounded b by the ice and extricated only wit with difficulty difficulty dif dif- dif dif- by tho the big ico br breaker akern Efforts to keep leep Petrograd open failed even with the tho aid of I ice lae e break break- ng reinforcements Sometimes the tho ice Ie themselves are caught in the Ice and have to call for others to push or pull them out At Royal Reval however American rollf offIcials belIeve they will be able to handle the famine re relief re- re lief lIet shipments efficiently all nIl winter iSa Riga and the other Baltic por ports s now nov closed by lee Ice are Ure spring spring open pen early carly In ln the |