Show ASKED TO SAVE RUSS PRISONERS People eople in Famine D Well WeI Cared For Compared Compard to Jail Jai Inmates MOSCOW March 20 0 By the Asso- Asso Aso- Aso elated Press Press To To prevent the death by y starvation and disease of or r so men and women In the th various prIsons and concentration camps emps cps of or Russia collections are being taken In the 10 8 by the priests and about abut the le streets by ex prisoners or by friends trends and and relatives of ot prisoners Despite the amnesty proclamation ot of if the soviet government In November Novem- Novem her ber er last the prisons and ad camps continue continue con- con crowded with men and ad women political prisoners whose only crime appears to have been that they once were vere rich or that they fell feU afoul of ot old Id enemies who wo used their tIc ances Ic Influence to avenge private te grier- grier ie- ie Conditions have been Jeen ee going oln from bad ad to worse since the famine until now prison means to be practically wIthout food clothes heat or medi- medi mel me The Te organization known knon as the Russian political Red Cross has han had ha Its Is ts meager supplies and funds cut off along with wit schools hospitals and other ther Institutions s' s The people In the famine ration eion Ion are aren In n a paradise compared to those who vrho are denied denie their liberty and ad all al means pf pI f obtaining food too SUBSIST ON REFUSE In the camps of ot and ad near Moscow to the certain tam aln tain knowledge of the Associated Press ress correspondent the prisoners prIsoner Associate are reduced to e etting bits bis of ot refuse like hungry animals The b pst bose st that that is served sered them is greasy hot ilot water called caned soup and pieces of ot bla black k bread bred The prison guards haven't much more to o eat t Some Somo women political prisoners have e ave been released but tho dent has haa ha Information that aged and middle aged ae princesses es mothers and daughters and wives are ae still sn detained d In n overcrowded lice Int infected ted cells cels or rooms with but wih one peco of ot to o cover them and without soap to wah ash vash themselves Once such people as these hese get Into prison they stay there almost automatically automatically auto auto- because they ore are ot or Ito spec ape ape- c lal 11 political Importance In present day soviet Russia Russin The cheka secret police polee authorities authorities ties has Just offered to send real i poli prisoners prisoners- locial social revolution or to some small I town they he ma may soled select at least smal liO liOI I miles from a railway Y if they will vill promise to remain there there They are arenow arenow now locked up In the prison at Moscow and thus far have h-e refused the he offer oter Nevertheless Nc a dozen 0 or orso orso so of ot these prisoners have been baen re- re leased eased wee we-e arrested by ly the hundreds In every ever political 1 cen center er of Russia RussIa and are still lu in various pris- pris ons ins Other Other political prisoners are an ln the She ca cadete ets of Professor Ml- Ml I- I lukof lukoff former Russian R foreign t min mm- ister officers and relatives J Jarious from the tile various arious white and volunteer noe ments of ot the old Imperialist sets In Including In- In eluding men from the thc and I In addition there hav have been Leen teen scattered scattered scat scat- t gh Jorth and centra l Russan Rus- Rus san prisons and cams camps me men connected connected connected con- con with the oft eff rs s to In Independent republics in ill Georgia Azerbaijan the tu Kuhi luha and other sections see sec ec- ec of ot south Russia and the Caucasus Cau Cau- casus Including au M. M 1 th the the- th new mw chief of ot the thE cheka rheka has as refused to give se American merIcan correspondents information or 01 0 the prisons and the s of Jf the arrests r A ear vear ago the cheki Issued a n report v was s suppressed 0 on Issue r |