New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-25
kilograms from Washing
ION Ask Aid of Mayors
of Larger Cities.
CASH EASIER TO
GET IN LONDON
How Money Sent on Tennessee
Has Been Disposed or by
the Committee.

meuf with the cuamutln ~ 49,.
boards of trade and local ked IoSS
organizations. whereby the soil0' NJ
of contributions for the American Ne"
Cross European relief eNpedl'ion me-
be- systematizcd and made more '"o'
ough. .,,...., ot,to.
we're asked by telegraph To Io'" W
carnations iu their cities: NJ
New York. Baltimore. Boston bu'
r.Io Chicago. Cincinnati. tievelahu'
Denver. Detroit. Indianapolis, jersey
Citv Kansas City. Los Angeles. LOUIS
,lfc Milwaukee. Minneapolis, New VT
leans Newark. Pittsburgh, Portland
Orc. Providence. Rochester, ~ LOUIS
81 Paul. San Francisco and SeaiIle'
The kilograms said: .....;.i
"Rcd Cross in great need OF hnah''al
assistance TO send surgeons, NURSES
bospital and surgical supplies 70 Euro,
moan countries az war. Personnel ana
CONTINENT ready. but funds desperate
h. needed 10 secure ship and purchase
additional supplies appealed Tor 10
American Red Cross. viii YOU, IN CO.
operation with chamber OF commerce.
board of trade and local Red cross or
osnization. appoint committee to Cd
/ tain contributions? VIII send from
! this Office upon request supply o. Suo
scriptiou blanks for use, same as useI
in Washington and some other clties'
France Is doing its utmost to DrIhg
I Americans out from Switzerland. A
line is open 20 Genoa. although ie" are
+ leaving by the Italian port
Three more ships will leave ltaIlah
,,..ts between tomorrow and early IN
Sapton1ber. with a total capacity OF
IA n is reported that many Amer
cans are leaving Italy for France, ana
,Loro are mo- cases Of distress in the
former country. The American charge
IN So. Petersburg reports nearly all
Americans have lett Russia.
Cash for Stranded Americans.
Cash Cor Americans IN London, even
though they are urDrovided WIN crsol'
pqpers. has been arranged Tor by Am,
Lgssador Page, according to his repofl
In tho state Department to-day those
.,,-in,- letters of credit arc now gettihS
enacie. Provision for an indefinite
number Of demands has been made,
Anha..ador Page states. and the steady
streau, Of almost destitute Americans
rouriug I'm from the Continent Us
promptly cared for. .....
The ambassador reports he IS urging
sd Americans 20 leave Tor nome.
TRANSFORMATION Is being arranged as
p quickly as possible.
More than 200 Americans are al
ready bound for America from the Con-
t.rent ON chartered ships.
The rapidity with which American
arc being moved TO European ports
erd taking passage for home makes -
SOON improbable. iu the opinion OF DILL
cials here, that IL would be necessary
20 send army transports now oelhS
fitted out 10 Newport News.
official dispatches to Secretary Gar
,ieon say the German government -
arranging for special trains TO take
Americans to Holland ports, whence
thew can cross 90 England to embarS
far home. From Auetrla-Hungary WORD
was received that the government ha'
sent a suecial train with 300 Americans
from Carlsbad into Germany, en- route
20 Holland. Others are moving INTO
Assistant Secretary Breckenridge Of
the War Department cabled the iol-
loving report to-day from Berlin:
81 left The Hague with party last
Saturday. August %, the Dutch govern
npnt furnishing special tram TO the
frontier There the German govern
ment gave us special TO Berlin. where
ra arrived s a. m. Sunday The trip
VA. made possible by the extreme
courtesy Of the German government.
I viii get I'm touch with the situation
IN Austria and Italy from here
Robert j. Thompson. consul AT AiN-la-
Chapclle. Germany. tclegraphed that
Americans and British in Fast Belgium,
Idege. Ncrviers and Spa are all right
and that uon-combatants are given full
protection and support.
Disposition of Funds.
Secretary Garrison to-day gave out
the following summary Of the reports
received to date concerning the move
ments and disposition of the officers
and relief funds sent TO Europe:
1.-THE Tennessee arrived at Falmouth
al 7:2O p. M, August rs. Assistant Sec
rotary Breckenridge. with Major
Ketchum and Captain Dalton, went on
To- London. taking 100000 for use
there. The two officers named were left
there to aid in relief work.
ION the 18th the North Carolina LETT
for Cherbourg with relief funds, and
with "a party of officers. including Major
Hedekin, Captain Ralston, Captain
Williams. Captain Coleman, Captain
This PARTY took with them some Of the
officers who were previously stationed
II the various service rchOOls, etc, I'm
France. From France they were 90 en-
Jeayor 10 reach Swiss and Italian
points. where they could aid in the
work Two officers were sent to Rome
with $4,000 and 10 Vienna with S25.-
coo. Captain Schindel, Captain ColvIn
and Lieutenant Phipps. jr., with $780,
600. were sent 10 Christlania for relief
work I'm Norway. Sweden and Denmark,
and two officers. with $4,000. We're sent
20 The Hague and Rotterdam. Assist
amt Secretary Breckenridge, with five
officers and SljO.O00, is IN Berlin. Cap
tain Williams was sent with $4,000 to
Antwerp.
"lu addition 30 the officers sent over
on the Tennessee and the North Caro-
lima esnecialiy for this work the mill
tary attaches already in Europe and
the officers 90 various foreign service
schools have been detailed TO this work.
ON August 10 Amba. sador Herrick
wired from Paris expressing the
thanks ot the ambassador Tor the IN
valuable assistance rendered him by
the ten army officers who have been on
duty under the military attache since
The outbreak of war. They have worked
and are working hard aud faithfully,
and have enabled the embassy 20 han
die efficiently and eXpedit!ously the
thousands OF Americans, Germans and
Austriaus who have required atten-
ton
I'm addition 20 thc dispositions
above referred 20. $4,000 has been sent
90 Major LaUghoIne, ,hc military at
tnche IN Berlin, and Ambassador vii
lard was given $4,000 for work ln