New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-26

hospitals, homes for lost children, dls-
injecting stations, milk depots, soup
kitchens, workrooms, homes, lodging
houses and what not, and, incidentally
gives some account of the Engllsh
assistance given, not only IN money
hut also in personal service. Al the
same time, she adds here and there 10
the record of the denominations OF the
FIGHT itself. She tells of refugees
scantily fed only three or four times
week. of the inmates of insane asylums
turned loose among them, of the pa
tients in isolation hospitals driven out
10 spread typhus, cholera and almost
every known disease among the mass.
At Ligovo one of the refugee trains was
held up for three days, during which
time three small loaves of bread for
every forty-eight persons was all mat
could be obtained. Most of the retu-
gees walked the whole way along roads
which the autumn rains made almost
impossible:
On one Of these roads a little
family of four started out bravely
with the rest of the village upon
the approach Of the Germans.
The father and mother both died
on the way, leaving the two
children behind them. These kept
UP with the neighbors as long as
they could, running alongside OF
the others, crying and begging for
food. The neighbors had little
enough TO give their own children,
but always managed TO spare a ut
tie for these two poor little waits.
They soon became too weak TO
follow with the rest of the party
and Jagged behind. No one no
ticed their absence, and they were
found by a later party Of fugitives
side by side on the roadside, hay-
ing died of starvation.
The work of caring for the survivors,
many of whom have lapsed into a sort
OF trance from which nothing can
arouse them, oil of them utterly desti-
tute, families dispersed beyond reunion,
is now we'll in hand, according to the
author. who gives special credit 70 the
city Of Kiev for the promptness and
thoroughness Of its organization for
relief
While the bulk Of Mr.. Child's little
volume. parts of which have appeared
in our periodicals, is devoted 10
Russia in wartime. its practical i'm
portance to us lies in its closing three
chapters on the future Of the Empire
and the share American industry and
commerce may win in the development
of an as yet undeveloped country OF
incalculable latent wealth.
What our author has to say applies,
unfortunately enough, with almost
equal force 10 our intermittent and
I half-hearted attempts TO enter other
/ foreign markets as we'll. But in Russia
Z La
come. since the country itself is not
( organized for foreign trade. II will not
suffice to meet the Russian merchant
halfway; our merchants must attend
TO both sides of the transaction. This
the Germans understood. They organ
lied the Russian import trade them
selves, consulted its requirements and
set about filling them. And what they
did not produce or manufacture them
selves they obtained from US. Hamburg
was the middleman between America
and Russia, disliked long before the
war, but indispensable. Englishmen,
Frenchmen, Italians, Danes, Swedes,
japanese are to-day studying the Rus
sian markets for the trade that will
begin to spring up with the coming OF
peace. But what is America doing?
The British have begun to see
the vision of Russian resource.
Officially and unofficially England
has set in motion new machinery
to develop trade with her present
ally. 1t is in the British and not
in the American press and peri
odicals that one can find informa-
ton in the English language about
the new Russia. 1t is in London,
and not in New York, that or
CARNATIONS such as the Chamber
Of Commerce have instituted Rus
sian sections. II is in the manu-
featuring centres Of the British
Isles, and not in Pittsburgh or
other industrial cities OF the
United States, that manufacturers,
even in the midst of war, have in
terested themselves in Russian ex-
port associations. In Petrograd I
found that almost every one could
direct me to the Russo-British
Chamber of Commerce; no one to
the feeble Russian-American As
sociaton. In London there are
now at least five banks whose titles
contain the name of the Cars
empire or Of its people. saw
nothing indicative of progress in
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