Feeding the Hungry, P. C. Hiebert, 1929

n Ukraine and will, as far as possible, provide the A.M.R. with telephone facilities. H. The necessary gasoline and oil to operate its motor transactions. Seventeenth: To accord the A.M.R. representatives and its couriers all the courtesies and privileges in crossing fron- tiers usually extended to relief workers and the representa- tives of the International Red Cross Association. Eighteenth: In localities where the A.M.R. may be op- erating and where epidemics are raging, the A.M.R. shall be enabled in cooperation with the Soviet Authorities to take such steps as may be necessary toward the improvement of sanitary conditions, protection of water supply, et cetera. Nineteenth: To permit the A.M.R. to import and re- éxport free of duty and requisition such commissary, trans- port and office supplies as are necessary for the personnel and administration, Twentieth: That they will bear all expense of the relief operations other than: A. Cost of relief supplies at port, B. Direct expense of American control, and super- vision of relief work in Ukraine. In general they will give the A.M.R. all assistance in their power toward carrying out of its humanitarian relief operations. Twenty-first: Both parties reserve to themselves the right of terminating the agreement at any time giving two months notice. Made in Kharkow on the 20th day of October, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-one. On behalf of the Central Commission of the famine 456 FEEDING THE HUNGRY Relief of the Pan-Ukrainian Central Executive Councils Committee. Stamp of the Ukrainian Socialist Signed: B. Jermoschtschenko. Soviet Republic. President. On behalf of the American Mennonite Relief. Stamp of the American Mennonite Relief. Signed: Alvin J. Miller. On behalf of the Ukrainian Soviet Government. Countersigned Ch. Racovski. APPENDIX In order to increase the effectiveness of the Ukrainian Relief work of the American Mennonite Relief and to ex- tend the assistance as widely as possible and to facilitate the raising of funds sufficient to save a much larger portion of the population from starvation, It is agreed between the A.M.R. and the U.S.S.R. that supplies in limited quantities purchased against draft by individuals outside of the Ukraine or Russia may be deliv- ered by the A.M.R. to individuals in the Ukraine according to the designation of the purchaser of the draft. These drafts are to be in denominations of Ten, Twen- ty-five and Fifty Dollars respectively. The quantity of supplies to be issued for each denomination is to be fixed and standardized on the basis of the total cost of such stocks delivered in hte Ukraine. Delivery to the assignee is to be made at the distributing point. Such supplies are for the exclusive use of the assignee and immediate family, and may not be sold by any one. On behalf of the Central Commission of the famine Relief of Pan-Ukrainian Central Relief Councils Committee. Sta