Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-31
SGRbIANS WILL bf RENDERED AID
 BY RED GROSS
Will Be Given Doctors, Nur- ses, Medicines, Money
 and Supplies.

Washington, Aug. 28. - The war council of the American Red Cross to- day announces the sending of a com- mission to Serbia to begin immediately relief work in that stricken country and to help it's scattered population in the struggle against privation and dis ease. Two hundred thousand dollars has been appropriated by the war council to buy medical and other sup plies for use among refugees on the Macedonian front.
 Cordenio Arnold Severeance, an eminent lawyer of St. Paul, Minn., heads the mission as commissioner. Deputy commissioners are Dr. Sever ance Burrage, sanitarian, formerly of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology; Dr. Frederick T. Lloyd, physi- clan, of Boston; Dr. Eugene A. Crock cit, surgeon of Boston; Eater Francis Jager, University of Minnesota, Min neapolis; Edwin D. Haskell, secretary, Minneapolis.
 Two other members of the com mission, w. A. Stewart of New York, and l.. D. Wishard of Pasadena, Cal, left some time ago for Salonika.
 The fifth of the Red Cross commits sions go to study a problem acknowl- edged as one of the most formidable in Europe. There is hardly family in Serbia that has not been uprooted and torn from its home, and none that has not lost some member on the bat tlefield.
 What have been the nations losses during the past five years of blood shed cannot be estimated. From an army of nearly half million at the beginning of the war, over hundred and fifty thousand men, are estimated to have been taken prisoners by the central powers and are suffering from in prison camps. Many; were lost in the retreat. through Albania. Of the army of one hundred thousand now on thea Salonika front. about sixty thousands are actual fighting men.
 The civilian population has suffered as greatly as the army. It has been harried over the face of Europe. One hundred and fifty thousand fatherless families, it is estimated, are facing destitution in various countries. Refu- gees in Russia, Rumania. Greece, Italy, France, and Switzerland number over thirty thousand. Fifty thousand fam lies are interned in Austrian camps After the massacres at Nish last Feb ruary, when 10000 sSerbians died in revolt, upwards of thirty thousand of these unhappy people were deported oy the Bulgarians into Asia Minor.
 The pressing needs of Serbia have | been laid before the Red Cross War council by Dr. Edward Ryan, Red Cross representative at Salonika and by Miss Emily Simonds, graduate of Roosevelt hospital. New York, who enlisted in the Serbian Red Cross in i 1914 and has since then assisted in he relief of thousands of refugees.
 Miss Simmonds urges the dispatch If food, clothing, bandages, blankets. 'ecd agricultural tools, as we'll as of doctors and nurses. In her informal 'eport to the Red Cross, she said:
 "There were only four hundred doc ors in all Servia at the beginning of he war, and the death rate has been ligh. Sixty, died of typhus alone in January and February, 1915. There Ire 116 doctors now in the army. but nly one dentist. Women doctors are needed for maternity work n the villages. One doctor in small ar could furnish medical supervis- on for several villages. A system of cup kitchens in the villages is an ab- olute necessity if famine is not to oako UOod fife thorots +hic u,;ntor O