Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-31
SERv|AN RELIEF
EXPEDITION To
GET UNDER WAY
Americans in Charge of Work
to Leave Paris in Few Days
Elaborate Plans Have Been
Formulated.

tAssoclated Press Correspondence.)
Paris. Jan. 6.-Within few days
ian advance guard of American relief
will leave Paris for Servia. III the
plans of those who are interested in
the undertaking fully materialize.
larger expedition will depart shortly
thereafter and establish at a point in
Servia to be designated by the Ser
Wan government an American hos
pital for the care OF the wounded.
This latest charitable movement
among the Americans in Paris has
had its beginning in the minds OF one
or two Of the colony who CHANGED
10 be familiar with conditions In Ser
I Via. These have seen that, while great
sums are being expended for the re-
! lief OF the suffering in western Eu-
rope, a pitiable situation has arisen
in the Balkans where many wounded
lie almost uncared for on the open
ground, wrapped In straw for want
Of clothing, while such surgical work
as the limited number of doctors
available can carry out is hampered
/ by an almost complete lack of anaes-
thetics and surgical appliances.
The committee which has been or
eanized with view to helping in the
relief OF this situation includes,
among other American names, those
of DE-. Richard Derby, who recently
married Miss Ethel Roosevelt, Ma
dame Wellington, well known for
her memoirs OF European diplomatic
life, Mrs. Barton French, whose
minister to servia, Mrs. Edmund
eros, Mrs. Herman Harjes, Mrs.
Ralph Hickox, Mrs. Whitney Hoff,
Mrs. II. A. Huntington, Mrs. Edward
Tuck, Miss Margaret T. Johnson,
Mrs. Benjamin Mairs-Wilson, ST.,
Benjamin Jablons, who served with
the medical corps the Servian army
throughout the second Balkan war,
and Henry Vignaud formerly secre-
tary of the American embassy in Pa
ris. The French names include those
Of the Marquis d'Aulan, the Comtesse
Rene de Coetlogon, Madame Francois
Millet. wife Of the famous painter,
and Monsieur and Madame Desprez,
the former minister OF France at
Balkan capital and the latter daugh-
ter of General Mcclellan of civil war
fame. Morgan, Harjes a Co.. the Pa
ris bankers, have lent their aid to
this. as to other American relief
schemes. and are receiving subscrip-
tons which. despite the slight public
lily the undertaking has SO far re-
lecived. amount TO Z 1000 francs in cash
and many gifts In kind.
Instant Relief Needed.
! Speaking Of the committees plans
one of its active members, Warning
ton Dawson said: our idea is not to
do anything ambitious. but to do in
stantiy what can be done for the re-
lief of the pitiable conditions which
exist among the Servian wounded
Therefore, the funds which are col
lected are being expended immedi-
ately for anaesthetics. medicines, In
struments and the like to be sent at
once TO the front We have also a
great many contributions in kind
The advance guard which will leave
I ~ - III q wv Nd9S VIII vt a wen
equipped expedition consisting of two
experienced surgeons and three train
! ed nurses who have already seen SER
I vice with the British Red Cross in
Belgium. They will cooperate with
those already in Servia until our unit
is large enough to be set up indepen-
IDENTIFY in it's own hospital. The Ser
Wan government has undertaken,
through its diplomatic representa-
tive in Paris to assign us a building
as soon as we are prepared to equip
and operate It, We will be in a posi-
! ton to do this when We have about
0,000 frame. our expenses have been
minimized to the last degree. There
are practically no overhead charges;
the expenses in Servia will be simply
for the daily upkeep of the person
mel. The Servian government will
maintain the hospital premises. Those
of the surgeons and nurses who can
do so are donating their services"
The money contributed so far has
come almost entirely from residents
In Paris.