The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-11-14
RED CROSS TAKING
CARE OF 10000 PEOPLE
They Were Driven from Their Homes in
Saloniki By Fire--Efficient Relief
Service, Especially By
the British.

Saloniki. Nov. l4.--tStaff Correspond
ence of The Associated Press There
are 10000 fire sufferers camping out in
tents in and around Saloniki, with the
British and French military authorities
and the American Red Cross taking care
of them. A tour of these relief camps
gave an opportunity to see the extent
of misery and want of these poor peo-
pie and the efficient relief work being
done, chiefly by the British, as they have
the largest stock of available supplies,
with the Americans and French also do
| ing their share.
The Dubular camps where $500 people
are being cared for by the British and
the American Red Cross, was the first
one visited. 1t is two miles back OF the
city, on rising hills, which the Bulgars
thought to take when they made their
first rush on the city.
On the way to the camp we passed
the British supply base, and had an OPP
portunity to see the vast reserves the
British have laid in, in ammunition, food
and charcoal for the cold months ahead
Nothing could have shown more clearly
that the British, like the French, are here
to stay. In munitions alone the stacks
road, and as far back as the eyes could
see. In the engineering park there were
acres of wire, curved steel trench covers,
and lengths of narrow gauge railway, |
ready to put together, as children con-
struct toy railway. The stock of char
coal beirg laid in is prodigious, for there
is no intention that the Tommies shall |
again be cold while in their trenches
and dug outs. Endless trains of pack |
mules and camions circulated through |
this supply base, with the hustle and
roar and overhanging cloud of dust of a
colossal enterprise.
AT Camp Dubular, where the refugees
are quartered, a city of white tents
spread out half mile over the level
plain. They were the regulation British
army tents, drawn from the big reserve
base. They were laid out in regular
streets and cross streets. Everything was
neat, with British soldiers
On guard to see that order and proper
sanitation was maintained.
"We have to do it all ourselves" said 5
he commanding officer of the camp, "for I
ingularly the refugees refuse to do
troke of work for themselves. When !
heir supply of fresh meat came we asked \
hem to shoe the flies off it, but they {
would not keep their own food clean un {
ess paid for it," e
The refugees are grouped in the tents 5
" families, five to a tent with army Y
OTIS They are very wretched lot. who a
ost everything in the big fire which de- c
troyed Saloniki. There are many old p
Fomen and children and over 200 nursing v
abies. /
At the baby's nursery Red Cross a
urses were bathing the infants. with j
oy scouts as helpers. Not baby had c
led, and there is little sickness, despite y
he unusual experience the infants are
Ding through. b
Food for dinner was being issued as a
ne party passed. Each family had a G
lrd showing its number and needs. and "
My one member of the family is rec G.
gnized in presenting these cards. Their b
olders were gathered in long lines. men, s
omen, and children The British fur a
ish good part of their army rations, "
nd the American Red Cross adds rice Il
nd beans. il
DIR. Edward W. Ryan, head of the W
merican Red Cross here, took the ini le
ative in starting these camps. which
~, ASPIcooht oHe VI tHe largest Tellet
orks of recent years. While the con
agration was still raging. he had set "
? soup kitchens, and within twelve
)urs of the start of the fire he was feed
g $500 people.
The military authorities, British and OF
rench. came in later, and the work has X
zen kept up ever since, with British. re
mericans and French cooperating. The ga
oblem now is what to do with this q
my of destitute people when the Mac. Il
onian winter sets in and the cities of %
nts can no longer he inhabited. NJ