FRIENDS' EMERGENCY AND WAR VICTIMS' RELIEF COMMITTEE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Ste,—In order to supplement the information given in your article of September 17th, may I remind your readers that my Committee has been continuously at work for the past eighteen months in Russia, and that we have found the Soviet Government perfectly trustworthy and honest in their dealings? This entirely confirms the evidence of Dr. Hansen, who, whilst supplying the prisoners in Russia last year, lost no single wagon in Russia and only one outside. Our workers have com- plete freedom to make and to carry out such schemes for relief as they deem most necessary, the Russian Government pro- viding such facilities as warehouse and office accommodation and the help of chauffeurs, clerks, ito. Till recently the work was confined to Moscow, but it has now been extended to the Samara Government, where our representatives worked from 1916 to 1919. I feel sure that your readers will agree that these facts of experience—showing that relief is entirely practicable— are of great value at such a time. They alio show that there is no valid excuse whatever for withholding our most generous support. Money can be translated into goods as quickly as we receive it. We are working in close co-operation with the Russian Famine Relief Fund (Fishmongers' Hall), and dona- tions may be sent to them earmarked for us. I shall be glad to give further information to anyone desiring it.—I am, Sir, &c.,
A. RUTH FILE, General Secretary.
27 Chancery Lane, W.C. 2.
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