Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-02
ANDERSON TELLS
/ WORK IN R0uMAN|A
$S Efforts TO Feed and Clothe
! Destitute Popu.
lation.
sGRATEFUL TO AMERICANS
aEhs and Villages Overcrowdcd
with Refugees From Country Dis
stcts, and Suffering Is Becoming
More and More Intense.

1 @Red' Cross magazine some account
$#This observations abroad. Mr.. An
Epson has made no local. statement
ss5fEes his return to Richmond.
SfEha Red Cross bulletin shows that
~ mtsfion performed important SER
HSesSand had vivid experiences. MIR.
8tdersoh's statement follows:
6 can report nothing 10 YOU more
b bAttfying than TO say tina; l believe
American Red Cross mission 20
SAhmania through the spirit of its stan
q SthirtY -odd people has expressed the
= ~ spirit and purpose OF the Aineri-
Sla5 Red Cross. They have lived
Though, many fires. They have come
SsFough3 smiling. They have never
q ssnplained. They have never hesitated
ANY condition that might arise
pa they have returned here ready for
kSther work and, believe. more en-
rfasttc to serve their country
|.sDtigh this great agency or any other
IN when they left you year ago.
hslEFe arrived in Roumania In Septem-
ast, 1917. and found tho hospitals
Esre with 10000 patients in them from
recent offensive. short of medical
6pDaies.i short of nursing facilities.
fthout the necessary sanitary ar
5ngemehts, with beds made of bags
Sed with straw used over and over
lain. many not washed. with doctors
fgely overworkcd because $50 of their
st doctors had died OF typhus the
IInter before; and nursing was only
h as could be given by the ANA
~ nursing service OF Roumania.
iLAGES ONERCROWDED
NJ WITH REFUGEES
"a this portion OF Rouman,a there
ID natural population OF about -
1000. and there had been added 50o.-
'h9 to 100000 refugees. largely women
~
ling approximately 10000 people had
81 s,d of contagious disease. and per
O. fps 100000 more from cold and ex-
ssure. Villages were ovcrcrowded.
sssy. with normal population of
1900 to 10000. was estimated TO have
,3opulation OF 100000. Every corner
f3- filled, every shed was filled In
lSspeasants' cottages. with mud walls
tina tched roof. with living room
ely ten feet square and possibly
six: feet square, with perhaps Il
al room in addition. you could hnd
sag ten TO twelve people. They
re very poorly fed
have been in many cottages and
End nothing in them. only a broad
ard of wood, used at night as 4
Hdle for the child. hung from the
lalinE by ropes. so II could be swung
stpk and forth. and in the daytime
led for making their Drcad-a yellow
rnmeal mixture, ground coarscly and
EAxed with cheese II they have II. 1t
very sticky, very heavy and I'M
olesome food
ycu can imagine thousands and
Eusands living in anything they
uld, live in. without food picking,
--what they could from tho army
r men report seeing children eating
fuse in the road-many OF them
liked or practically so. with 10000
Ia1 IN, bN
kefcivil hospitals filled and the whole
1spnlation undcrfed, il would give YOU
|sgood idea of Roumani:, as We found
|sIIPMENT OF HERRING
BROUGHT FROM ARCIIAECEI.
ssThe first effort was to bring "A ship
(htnt from Archangel OF sal, herring
|shich they said was the best food for
|aem. We succeeded In bringing
Trough two trains OF nfty-cight cars
d two weeks. We brought Ito car
A1ds of foods,un into Jassy. which
3ey said 1t was impossible to do, and
hey had only gotten in three carloads
Tore. We were getting IN something
Se forty carloads a day when | left
e. organized in sixty days distribute
g system of food, by which we dis
Yabnted weekly to 10000 people be-
md the lines l don't Know how we
dit except by working sixteen and
shteen hours a day.
For those we could M, 49,
:her way we cstablislfAd - -cantccn
|JSJassy. When we began TO bTild the
inteen in the center of the town the
Dor peonle began IN r,,hcr nr.,ii,
he gate Of ,bai Mace =, = n.c,n.ie ~,
(he morning for wenl, haforn ~
Ilnteen was openoa w.. poyn 81,
Tread and they 20, alono ru.I
eened the can,een w. tban sn,,sG
| 500 people in that cnn,.en cyarv
; ~. We also CAV. them .clothirr ana
Id room where girls came and made
3tothes. When | left | Inf, fnoG
Rough to continue The work Tor ,b,..
,onths under the direction NJ he
|ueen We were fecdiuu, thrnurb can
ems when lcft-to say rothinr re-
elp to other NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., 2n :
20 or 10000 people ou.r.ci.l.r ra.inns
daily food supply.
AkyNt. nUUo,,rs ,ro
CLoTur me ,,,r,,
! dec,dca ~. ,.o,,
8u6rnn a. n'-'S S''N"e me
MOSCOW TO buy all Inc cloth ms.
lie and told them 10 draw ., ,ha
Ted Cross for the nr,cc. Iyo hnu..h,
|bout six carloads OF rIo,b i'm Nns-
3pw and about typentv-fou, carloads in
fetrograd We orranized cysrv scnooI
lad community. They said thcv had
Fd sewing machines or needles
| ave found fifty sewing machines a,
Inc nIace 7 hon,,rt ,l.-,, 49,, =