Feeding the Hungry, P. C. Hiebert, 1929

nal Red Cross and League of Red Cross Societies. Twenty-eighth. Alvin J. Miller arrived in Moscow. SEPTEMBER First. The Sixty-two young men arrived in New York. Thirteenth. The Girl’s Home was moved from Con- stantinople to Yeni Keuy. OcTOBER Fifteenth. Alvin J. Miller signed the Agreement with the Soviet Government at Moscow. Fifteenth. The Sixty-two young men were released from Ellis Island and permitted to enter the country under bond. Twentieth. Agreement with the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic signed at Kharkow. Alvin J. Miller goes to Berlin to communicate with Mennonite Central Committee. Is instructed to wait there for letter of instructions. NOVEMBER Twelfth. J.E. Brunk left Constantinople for America. Reports of a terrible famine raging in the Volga region, reach Constantinople. APPENDIX 433 DECEMBER Third. Alvin J. Miller arrived in Moscow.—Con- ference with Col. Haskell, Director American Relief Ad- ministration, fixing terms of affiliation with A.R.A. Twelfth. A. J. Miller wired from Moscow to Slagel in Constantinople to bring supplies to the Ukraine. Seventeenth. First food supplies ordered delivered to Mennonite Settlements in Volga districts. Koeppental Trakt, $500.00 Nineteenth. New Samara, $1,000.00. Dawlekanovo, Ufa, $300.00. Twenty-seventh. Orenburg, $1,000.00. Old Samara, $500.00. Ford distribution in ‘“Trakt’” settlement, Koeppen- thal, Savatov District, near Saratov, and New Samara Settlement, Samara District. Twenty-eighth. Meeting of Mennonite Central Com- mittee in Chicago accepting responsibility of feeding to the extent of $15,000.00 monthly. 1922 JANUARY Thirteenth. Slagel left Constantinople with supplies bound for Odessa. Twentieth. First orders food delivery for Ukraine. Ault Kolonie: Chortitza $11,000.00 Molotschna, Orlova 5,000.00 Molotschna, Halbstadt 5,000.00 FEBRUARY Sixth. Slagel left Odessa with seven cars of supplies for a 500 mile trip by rail to Alexandrowsk. Eleventh. Food supplies ordered to Ambulatorium, Djejevka, Orenburg Settlements $300.00. 434 FEEDING THE HUNGRY Dr. Rudolph Classen sent to Orenburg Settlement, to open Ambulatorium—free medical center. Nineteenth. Alvin J. Miller appointed Director of American Mennonite Relief in Russia. Philadelphia meet- ing. Twenty-first. P. C. Hiebert and C. E. Krehbiel sailed from New York for Russia. Twenty-fourth. Miller from Moscow and Slagel from Constantinople met at Alexandrowsk and began feeding. Meetings with representative groups at Alexandrowsk and Chortitza. MArcH Second. Miller met Molotschna group at Halbstadt. Seventh. Alexandrowsk office was opened. Eighth. Hiebert and Krehbiel had official meeting with Dutch Relief Committee at Haarlem. Tenth. Miller left Alexandrowsk for Moscow. Eleventh. The first six cars of American food sup- plies reached Alexandrowsk from Charkow. Twelfth. Conference with German Mennoni