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Show MOTOR CARS TO BE SENT HOME i American-owned Machines, 1 American-bred Horses and Polo Ponies to Be Shipped From England. BOY SCOUTS USEFUL I Russian Woman Tells Troubles Trou-bles to Young Interpreter Who Obtains Prompt Relief. London, Aug 19, 0:06 p. m. Robert P. Skinner the American consul general gen-eral at London, today received a communication com-munication from Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign secretary saying the British government would permit the exportation of American-owned motor cars on proper representations being made to the customs authorities. authori-ties. The government also is willing, the foreign secretary said, to allow the return to the 1'nlted States ot American Ameri-can bred horses and polo ponies which are not needed by the militarv, though thp question of the military fitness of the animals must first be decided The Hny Scouts have been indis penaable to the merican relief committee com-mittee an messengers and guides, but the broad scope of their usefulness was proved today when a scout acted as an interpreter for a Russian woman wom-an who was unable to speak English The scout a as Alexander Volkoff. son of the Russian naval attache in London He learned that the worn an. whose husband is a naturalized American lived 'n Pennsylvania, that she had started with her baby to visit her home In Russia, but had been caught by the war in Germany and had been forced to return. The woman wom-an is without funds and the Amen can relief committee will pay her passage pas-sage back to Penns:-h ania nn |