2. As the United States government
maintains no representatives in, and
has no relations with this territory, it
will be In no position to extend pro
tection to the Commission and it must
go on its own risk.
S. In a general way it is the desire
of the State Department to facilitate
the dAstfl-ifbution of relief to innocent
sufferers in Russia, tout every precau
tion must be taife-n against the misuse
of suppiOes furnished.
The Joint Distribution Committee,
which is the relief disbursing agency
for the American Jewish Relief Com
mittee and its afned organizations ac
cepted these conditions and arrange
ments are now under way in Poland
to send the Ukranian commission into
Ukraine and Russia
There are over 3,300,000 Jews in
the ITkrane alone whose condition.
owing to the impossibility of reaching
the country, is the worst in Europe,
according to reports received by the
American Relief Committee. Typhus,
cholera and starvation are sweeping
away thousands of the population
while the lack of clothing reaped a
terrible death toll during the winter,
reports stated.
The Russian government has an
nounced that it will afford the Com
mission full protection while admin
istering relief ha its territories, ac
cording to newspaper dispatches from
Copenhagen.
When the Commission enters the
Ukrane and Russia, it will have been
the first "American relief agency to
function there.
POPCTiATTCHT STATISTICS.
Washington, April 22 Racine,
Wis, 68,593, increase 20,591 or 54.2
per cent.
Hagerstown, Mi, 28,029. increase
11,522 or 69.8 per cent.
Ennis. Texas.- 7.224. increase 1,555 or
27.4 per cent.
Piqua, Ohio, 15,044, increase 1,656
or 12.4 per cent. '
Venice, CaL, 10,385. increase 7,266
or 233.0 per cent.
