Feeding the Hungry, P. C. Hiebert, 1929

430 FEEDING THE HUNGRY Twenty-fifth. O. O. Miller returned to Constanti- nople from preliminary trip to Russia. Clayton Kratz had remained at Halbstadt. NOVEMBER Ninth. Slagel left for Sebastopol with relief supplies. Kratz was carried away from Halbstadt a prisoner of the red army. WRANGLE’S ROUT IN THE CRIMEA Thirteenth. O. O. Miller arriving at Sebastopol on the American destroyer saw the helplessness of the situa- tion there and planned for work in Constantinople. Fourteenth. Slagel reached Sebastopol only to see Wrangel’s army and the civilian population fleeing in wild haste to escape the approaching reds. The captain of his ship at once left for the nearest safe port, Constanza, Roumania. Twenty-first. Sixty-two ships with more than 100,000 refugees arrived at Constantinople. First group of twenty-one young men taken from Refugee ships. Mennonite Home established. Children’s Shelter organized to provide for the chil- dren among the refugees. General Relief work in outlying Refugee Camps. DECEMBER Twelfth. Slagel arrived from Constanza at Constan- tinople with relief-supplies. Fourteenth. B. F. Stoltzfus and J. E. Brunk arrived at Constantinople. Twenty-third. The relief supplies brought back from Russia were released by the Turkish customs and put into | the American Mennonite Relief warehouse. APPENDIX 431 1921 JANUARY First. Fourteen more Mennonite refugees arrived from Gallipoli. Twenty-fourth. Alvin J. Miller arrived from Vienna and joined the Unit. Twenty-ninth. The Men’s Home was moved to Yeni Keuy. FEBRUARY Seventh. O. O. Miller left Constantinople for Amer- ica. Marcu Sixth. Alvin J. Miller and A. W. Slagel left for Novorossisk to arrange for relief work in Russia. APRIL Seventeenth. Vesta Zook and Vinora Weaver ar- rived at Constantinople. May First. Girl’s Home was opened in Constantinople. JUNE First. Alvin J. Miller and Slagel returned to Con- stantinople from Novorossisk. Highest Government off- cials of Southeast very favorable to project. Formed important connections with Mennonite Committee of Mil- lerowa: Peter Karneojew of all Russia Council of Sects; A. J. Fast, J. J. Dirksen, a committee from the ‘“Bun- desrath der Mennonitschen Gemeinden und Gruppen des Nordlichen Kansasus inklusive Stavropol Gouvernment und Don Gebiet’” authorized them continue negotiations on our behalf, and gave outline of our plan of work in English, German, and Russian. Sixth. The first two Mennonite refugees sent to America. 432 FEEDING THE HUNGRY Twenty-fourth. Another clothing shipment arrived from America. JuLy Twenty-fourth. Alvin J. Miller left Constantinople for London planning to enter Russia via Riga. AUGUST Third. Sixty-two young men left Constantinople for New York on board the steamship Acropolis. Fifteenth. Conference of all relief organizations in- terested in assisting Russia called at Geneva by Interna- tio