TO HELP EXILED RUSSIANS

Evening Star, Issue 21823, 12 September 1934, Page 8

TO HELP EXILED RUSSIANS

A MISSIONARY ARRIVES PEASANTS DISSATISFIED WITH COMMUNAL FARMING [Put United Funs Association.] AUCKLAND, September 12. Miss Natalie, Grushenkova, a member of the Russian Missionary Society, who arrived to-day from Sydney, was assist, ant professor at Leningrad University until she went to the London University. While in London she became A Christian. She is now touring . th« world, helping other exiled Russians. She said that on her tour she wa» watched by Soviet agents, who insuiu. ated that the society was more than religious in its aims. ! When in Aus. tralia the Communistic element tried to interrupt her addresses. The visitor said that there was a great religious revival welling up m Russia. lha people could _ not, and would not, da without religibn, she said. . ■ Tho peasants were far from satisfied with the communal farmmg system. There was actual famine in Russia now, and at present a conference in Geneva \vns trying to devise 8- way of nclping the Russians, who were starving. These facts the Soviet would like to suppress. The Soviet did not wurit war now, as it was not ready, and ifc feared a revolution in the case of war,