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Show LONG-SOUGHT-FOR PERMISSION GIVEN Wives and Children of Men Who Left Russia Before War May Join Them Here. NEW YORK, Feb. 25. The Russian government has granted permission to the wives and children of men who -came to America before the war to leave Russia Rus-sia and join their relatives in America, says Leon Sanders, president of the Hebrew He-brew Sheltering and Immigrant Society of America. The news came in a message mes-sage from Isidore Hershfeld. a lawyer, who was sent by the society to give relief re-lief to the Jewish war sufferers in Poland and Gallcia. The message was forwarded forward-ed by Embassador Gerard at Berlin to Secretary of State Lansing in Washington, Washing-ton, who transmitted it to Mr. Sanders. The society had been trying for a long time to obtain this permission. Mr. Sanders said in ere were many- Russian .lews who came to America before the war and who now have the means to support their families here, but who had been unable to bring them over because heretofore the Russian government would not permit them to leave. |