Hallo List:     The following article is translated to the best of my ability.                                                         ------------------ Page 3, Die Welt-Post, Thursday, March 6, 1924   Letters from Russia   Saratof, in little Siberia, Dec. 27, 1923 My dear uncle Georg H. Mueller in Portland, Oregon:   I hope that my letters have been in your hands for some time and that you have chosen to help by the most expeditious means. With that in mind, I take up the pen and do so in the knowledge that the emergency continues to increase and soon it will be extreme. If help does not come most expeditiously the result will be bad, very bad. In my opinion assistance should first be made with money through the banks where it would possibly arrive faster. We must have money so that we can at least buy some seed and working livestock for spring sowing. If one cannot produce anything and cannot provide for the future then, obviously, the famine will continue.   This (assistance) would have to happen in the fastest possible way so that I get the money a little before sowing time. Our sowing season begins now and goes on for approximately 3 months. My situation up to now is very, very bad. It is exactly as I described to you in my previous letters and it is not necessary for me to describe it further. I urgently ask again, send as much as it is within your power to do, may the hearts of each friend and acquaintance be moved to contribute something to alleviate my great, very great emergency and save me and my loved ones from starving to death. As I have already said, the first aid would have to happen in the fastest possible manner.   Perhaps you think I am exaggerating, but I swear to God (I am not). I wist that you could see here but a moment. You would be greatly astonished because you would see how the children are completely naked and it is not much better with their elders. We go about (dressed) only in rags. It is also the same with the relatives.   Live well and in peace.   Affectionate greetings from your well-meaning nephew,                                                         Peter Mueller                                                              ---------------------   Hugh Lichtenwald, from the farm in Monetta, SC VIC, Wiesenmueller