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Show AMERICANS PLAN TO RELIEVE THE RUSSIANS NEW YORK. Feb. 21. The terrible conditions in Russia and China, due to famine and consequent starvation and pestilence, have Induced prominent men In this country to make greater efforts to obtain funds for the purpose of collecting a large sum for the relief of the Russian peasants. Several well-known New Yorkers will meet in the rooms of the New York School of Phllanthrophy In-the United Charities building. They will be addressed by Nicholas Nich-olas Shishkoff, of Samara, Russia, who was a member of the Council of the Empire during the existence of the recent Douma. Shlshkoffs mission In this country is to raise funds for his starving countrymen. country-men. He bears credentials . from the United Zemstvo famine relief committee. For five months he- worked la the stricken provinces, . ' -. . ' |