RELIEF FOR RUSSIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1943, Page 4

RELIEF FOR RUSSIA

WORK OF UNITED STATES ORGANISATION. The Russian War Relief (an American organisation with its headquarters in New York) in its first year of operations shipped materials to Russia and purchased goods worth a total of 4,067,703.91 dollars, Mr Edward C. Carter, president of the group, announced recently. Supplies are regularly despatched to Russia in Soviet vessels at no cost to the relief organisation, Mr Carter said, adding that its funds were all spent for American products, no money going to Russia. “We make this report |o the public with a great deal of satisfaction,” Mr Carter said, “although with no sense of complacency. “We think that the people of America who have contributed the money that makes our' work possible have a right to feel satisfaction that they are sending a substantial flow of vital relief supplies to the millions of wounded Russian soldiers and many more millions of orphans and refugees families in the Soviet Union. We wish that the total were greater, because the need over there is so much greater than we ever will be able to satisfy, but the total of contributions to Russian Wai- Relief is increasing each month and from that fact we take encouragement “We are not free to report the details of the schedules and routes of transportation, but we know that our supplies are reaching their destination.” An analysis of types of supplies sent to Russia showed that 90.4 per cent were medical supplies; 6 per cent were clothing, knitgoods and blankets; 3.5 per cent, foodstuffs and seeds, and one tenth of one per cent, miscellaneous other items. The organisation, with headquarters at 11 East Thirty-fifth Street, New York, was incorporated in September, 1941. I