Arizona republican., 1917-09-14

question, as well as with Prince Max of Baden, the heir presumptive to the throne of that country, and I finally doctors and nurses as volunteered would be sent to Russia to do what they could for the German prisoners of war there Nine doctors and thirty eight nurses volunteered
 They were given a great reception placed a large credit in the hands of this mission. and, after I had obtained through our state department the con- sent of the Russian government for the admission of the mission, it started from Berlin to Petrograd. The Ger man authorities and the Germans as a whole were very much pleased with this arrangement. Officers of the Prussian army were present at the departure of the trains and gave flow CTS to all the nurses.
 It is very unfortunate that after their arrival in Russia this mission was hampered in every way, and had the greatest difficulty in obtaining per mission to do any work at all. But many of them managed to get in posi- tions where they assisted the German prisoners. For instance, in one town where there were about 5000 Germans who had been sent there to live one of our doctors managed to get appointed as city physician, and, aided by sev- eral of the American nurses, was able to do a great work for the German population. Others of our nurses man. aged to get as far as Tomsk, in Si- beria, and others were scattered through the Russian empire.
 Had this mission, under Doctor Snoddy, been able to carry out its work as originally planned it would not only have done much good to tht German prisoners of war, but would have helped a great deal to do away with the bitter feeling entertained b! Germans toward Americans. Even witt the limited opportunity given this mis sion it undoubtedly materially helped the prisoners.
 On arriving in Berlin on their way home to America from Cleiwitz anC Kosel the doctors and nurses of thes' American units were all awarded tn German Red Cross Order of the seconC class. and those who had been in Aus tria were similarly decorated by thu Austro Hungarian government.
 Admiration for Herbert C. Hoover
 Among those who devoted them selves to works of charity during thi
 war no one stands higher than Her bert C. Hoover.
 I cannot find words to express m
 admiration for this man. whose grea
 talents for organization were placed a
 the service of humanity. Every on
 knows of what he accomplished il
 feeding the inhabitants of 13elgiun
 and northern France. MT. Hoover aske,
 me to become one of the chairmen O
 the International Commission for tn
 Relief of Belgium, and I was happy t
 have the opportunity, in Berlin, to sec
 ond his efforts. There was consider
 able business in connection with tn h interviews with those in authority wit
 reference to getting their ships throug
 etc MT Hoover and I called on Chan
 cellor von Bethmann-H Hollweg and CT
 deavored to get him to remit the fir
 of 4o, ,000,0 900 francs a month which tt
 Germans had imposed upon Belgiur
 This, however, the chancellor refuse
 to do. Later on in April, 1915, I WE able as an eyewitness to see how e
 ficiently MT Hoover's organizatiC
 fed. in addition to the people of Be gium. the French population in thi } patton Of the Germans
 ; MT Hoover surrounded himself vii } an able staff, MT. Vernon Kellogg ar others, and in America men like A. Hemphill were his devoted supporter 7 Rockefeller Foundations Relief Woi ; Early in 1915 Ernest P. Bicknell. WI l had first come to Germany represen : ing the American Red Cross, returnt = representing not only that organiZ; } tion but the Rockefeller Foundatio g With him was Wickliffe Rose also l the Rockefeller Foundation, and wi 3 these two gentlemen I took up u question of the relief of Poland M 3 Rose and Mir Bicknell together visit e Poland and saw with their own ey : the necessity for relief. A meeting w , held in the reichstag, attended ' Prinze Hatfield, of the German R e Cross; Director Guttmann of t e Dresdner Bank: Geheimrat Lewald | the imperial ministry of the interiC V representing the German governmel :. and many others connected with t n