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Show RUSSIA HARVEST j BELIEVED SHORT Explorer's Report Belies! Roseate Data Given at I The Hague Meeting LONDON, July II. (By tho Asso-,1 elated Pn'w) Dr. Frldtjof Nansen Thursday presented to the council of! the leagiie of nations on behalf of the, Norwegian government an Impressive I report on epidemic crop and famln" 1 conditions in Kussln The report declared de-clared that Russia's harvest this year I would amount to only 32,000,000 tons "i SO per cent below that of 1916.. Dr. Vnnsen said his government be- I lleved Europe was on the edgo of an abyss and that the economic reconstruction recon-struction of Russia now was the dominant dom-inant lsue in world affairs. Ho begged the counell to appoint a commission of experts to establish by unquestionable unquestion-able authority what Is tho actual situation situ-ation thro. The Norw.-Klan government, the report re-port said, did not wholly agree with the roseate r-ports of Russian crops which had been presented to T Hague conference and eisowhero b "interested parties' A telegram had I Just been received saying the- crops! would not be as satisfactory as had I been anticipated. Dr. Nansen presented a gloomy picture pic-ture of the situation He praised the work of the American Amer-ican relief administration, ; Tin- . ouncll of the league of nation instructed the secretariat to collect all available Information on the subje. t und present their findings and recom-j menttatipnS to the ni-xt meeting of the Icouncil. which will decide whether it will send a oommlssion to Russia. H H KI TFKLLKK HELPS it anounced bj the council that tin- Rockefeller foundation had placed I at the dlspoaal of the league of na-iions na-iions for flvi years $30,000 per annun. fOi ... gathering and publication of epldemological on dstatlstlcal information infor-mation on public health, and $60,000 I yearly for three- years for an exchange j Of public health expert between the dlffi rrn' oun tries. The mmbvers' of ithe council expressed deep appreciation apprecia-tion for these gifts and also to the lAjneiioan relief administration, the American relief committee and the I Young Men's Christian association for their care of Ruslun re fu goes in i Constantinople. R( solutions and recommendations of the recent sataion in Paris of the i. mporary mixed commission on arm.-ni. arm.-ni. rir w re approved hy tho council 1 f . hlef American Inter t I-- tho proposal pro-posal in tho resolutions to extend to the non-signatory powers of ih- nnvnl c: tli- Washington .(inference 1 the principles of reduction of naval ....... ,, ftl adopted in the Washington treaty. LANS VRMAMKNTS LIMITS j The council referred Lora Esher 's Iplan for limitation of land armament jto the permanent advisory commission of tho league of nations for technical . study. Lord Rolert Cecil's proposal for a Igeneral world offensive alliance with Imllitry responsibility limited to nations Jon the same continent was discussed toda Rene viviani of France said it nas no' possible in the present agl-tated agl-tated state of the world to disarm un-lesa un-lesa '.11 countries disarmed simultaneously simultane-ously Paul Hymana Belgium, en- lor.s.-d M Vlvianl's statement. The council then discussed a num-i. num-i. r of health problems in eoutrles in which cholera, tphu9 and other di9-. di9-. cases are prevalent |