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Show QUAKERS BEGIN I RUSSiAEUEF Friends' Committee Sends Woman and Supplies to Soviet Nation PHlLAPBftjPHl A. Nov. 2 The imeiican l-Tlends service rommitt-. has .announced that it Is beginning H -llcf work In Russia. U has Just been, notified that Mis Anna J. Haines, of, Moorestown. N. J . an experienced worker ehO ipsnt several years in Itusaia In relief work under the government) gov-ernment) of the emperor and Kerrn-1. Kerrn-1. Will soon arrive ln Reval. She plans to go to Moscow where she will .o-operate wifh Arthur .1 Watts, an, Kngltsh Flend. who has heen working ID Russia for the p:it olx months. WXLL 1 M i PPIJB& MUM Hinee will take $100,000 WOrth of supplies, niosily medical. Into Rus- J sia and she and her assistants Will dl-1 ret I their distribution. The committee savs the Friends will hae complete j control of alt supplies sent to Russia and will allot them to Institutions and ih, most need of the t lv ilie.n population popula-tion They will begin hy distributing condensed milk, eori liver oil, choco-; Iste, oar'. shoes, stockings and wool j en coots. In addition to mcdlral sup-I piles, Kus'U greatest need today i re-, ported to be for medical and Sanitary I uppliee and clothing. Th- people ofj the agricultural district! are in vv.u.ti only of the medicines. Hospital In Russia are said to have had neither; for live years and when operations ai' performed the patients xrc strapped Jo! the operation tables. bien rjsss is u i 1 1 Owing to the complete breakdown of tin naiiMM.it sv-Mem in Russia. sh-greatest sh-greatest Buffering was reported to thej I'rlends to exist In large cities like i UoscOw and Petrograd, where a hugi Industrial potilatlon cannot obtain supplies. sup-plies. In I hose cities the distress Isl reported be acute. I'etroprad has1 lost 50 p r ct tit of its population within with-in th past four years. Arthur .i Watts, the English Frieud moved about In Russia without any re-trlcUon re-trlcUon by the soviet government and it It announced that the American FYteii'ls will have the same privilege In October Mr. Watte cabled ' thei American Frcrtdi' service committee i" send a representative to establish a permanent Anglo-American relief; work. !ls. Hume; was sent .n response re-sponse to this call. Sne is a graduate of Bryn Mawr col-j lege and for a time was engaged In social work In ths city. In IMT she volunteered for relief work In Russia and wns stationed in Moscow. After the overthrow of Kerensky. Mies Halnee flSd With other refugees to Siberia Si-beria where nhe worked at Omsk Iii-r she returned to Anierlcan via ladlvoatoki oo |