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Show U. S. GRAIN MAY SAVE MILLIONS OF LIVES j MOSCOW, Jan. 6. (Bv The Associated Asso-ciated Proas l WMfyatn X. Haskell. I director of the American roller ad-I ad-I ministration work In Russia, returned to Russia from London Thursday, op-tlmistic op-tlmistic of helping to save, chiefly through America's $20,O0fi.U0O gruln appropriations, from five to ten million mil-lion persons otherwise probably doomed to die of starvation In tho Volga Vol-ga region. The relief administration, he said, hopes that the first of the grain provided pro-vided by appropriation will reach the starving people eurly in February. "We cannot hope to fill their stomachs, stom-achs, hut we can Icoep from five to ten millions of people from dying." he said, adding that by March the feeding feed-ing of adults would be in full swing The relief administration would furnish fur-nish a concentration, probably one pound a day, .to each adult absolutely absolute-ly lacking food, and a lesser quantity to eke out the rations of lho.se who have something. co |