Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-06-11 | Page 34 | Spring Breakup Reveals in All Its Horror the Aftermath of Terrible Winter Hunger in Interior Russia

j 4 Spring Breakup Reveals in All Its Horror the Aftermath of Terrible Winter Hunger in Interior Russia T LONDON. June 10. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press) Russian rivers are now open to the transportation of American relief administration supplies, sup-plies, and the transportation problems which faced the organization in Russia Rus-sia last winter are nearlng solution, according to cable advlc?s received at London headnuartere. Food shipments are helnrr nij.de on both the upper and the lower Y olga in larger quantities nnd with more spted than In the pas, and tributary rivers, now open, ma'ce It possible to penetrate to more remote districts. Meantime the spring Oreakrlaw is revealing In all Its horror the aftermath after-math of the terrb e winter hunger. At Aktublnsk 10,000 liodle. of famine victims have been washed tip by 'ho floods on the Hairpin bend of the Elek river. New diseases also are appearing. There s some smallpox, and B great deal of scabies, trachoma and dysentery, but the medical department de-partment of the American relief administration ad-ministration reports a decided Improvement Im-provement In both children and rdults as a result of American ratloris CLEAN LINK SS FXJKCED American coin jh proving more than satisfactory, it yields it per cent more In the grinding than ihe native variety, and When boiled gains from 5 to 6 times in weight. Cholera Is Increasing In many SC-tlons SC-tlons of Russia as tho spring advances, ad-vances, but the medical officers ot tho American relief administration, acting In concert wl?h the Russian health department, hopo to check the epidemic speedily In ihe regions (there the -merlcan relief administration adminis-tration Is working. Bight million doses of antf-cholera aecine. from America will be used i and American relief administration directors at several points in the, famine regions, particularly at ihe refugee camps, are educating the pop- ulatlo nin Ueanliness b granting ra- tlons only to those refugees who will work to clean the '-amps. Messages describing the actual distribution dis-tribution oi American relief set. forth that on the banks of the Ural river on the borders of Asia, refugees and peasants on receiving the American ration. loe no time in rooking it. Tho i river banks soon are black with little groups sitting happily about an Improvised Im-provised pot in which the first re- food they hae had for months Is boiling merrllv. SLAIN FOR CLOTHING, Tho corn is issued In the raw state and Is received in bags, aprons and knotted roatsleeves 'with all the ohsequloue grar eousne99 and gratitude which seems characteristic of the Rud-slans Rud-slans " ' Mortars and pestles of every conceivable con-ceivable prehistoric style and shape were Improvised," the message sayi, for the purpose of grinding the grits and In one hour the meal was boiling boil-ing ocr numerous fires. So ravenous raven-ous were some of the beneficiaries they could not even wait for theeo j preparations to be made, but munched the grits whole." Six hundred fifty thousand people are now receiving the American ration ra-tion in the Khirglz and the Bashkir republics, of which Orenburg in the capital. This has been one of the worst famine districts and not long ago the people in some sections h id bocome so violent that an order was issued restricting the townsfolk to their homes after 8 o clock. Murder for the purpose of acquiring clothes and food had become common and reports of cannibalism were widespread. wide-spread. oo