The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-01-14
kbllllIA NEEDS
Immediate AID
Help Similar to That Given
Belgium Necessary to
Relieve Suffering.
POVERTY FRIGHTFUL
Red Cross Doing All it Can
But Supply Of Workers
Not Sufficient.
POVERTY FRIGHTFUL

Jassy. Rumania, Jan. l3.--(Corre-
spondence of the associated Press -
Only relief measures on a scale equal
to those carried out in Belgium would
meet the extreme conditions
Of poverty and suffering existing IN
Rumania. Nevertheless the American
Red Cross commission, which has been
in Jassy since the middle Of Septcm-
Der, although it has not adequate means
TO cope fully with the situation, is en-
deavoring TO the limit Of its capabilities
to give relief at least to the hospitals
and the sick with the handful OF sup
plies it has at it's disposal.
The medical unit consisting If 10
American doctors and IL Amer lean
nurses is doing splendid work at Ro-
man, 60 miles from Jassy and abolt
IS miles from the Austrian Rumanian
front, where it has established the first
American hospital with a capacity OF
500 beds. The chief difficulty in car
rying on the work has been the prob
lem Of getting medical supplies through
Russia.
British Assisting.
The British Red Cross has been of
the greatest assistance to the Ameri
can commission. which came here vir-
tnally empty handed and was disap-
pointed by the non arrival Of medical
supplies shipped from New York. In
this emergency the British organiza-
ton. which had been operating in Ru-
mania for mere than year, turned
over to the commission the hospital in
Roman.
Queen Marie of Rumania has taken
particular interest in the work of the
hospital and was invited to partake of
| Thanksgiving dinner with the Ameri-
can staff there. The staff themselves
have felt the food privations which pre-
vail in Rumania and the Thanksgiving
dinner was the first real substantial
repast they had since their arrival The
chairman and the staff eat at army
headquarters and have meat only three
times a week.
! France Generous.
France has rendered Rumania nedi-
cal and military relief on scale SO
great that the common feeling here is
that this little Kingdom would scarcely
exist today If it had not been for the
generosity of her French ally France
treorgauized and revivifed the Ruma :
tnian army. She now has nearly 1000
officers who have been teaching the
Rumanian soldiers modern military
tactics as used on the western front.
In medical relief the French govern
ment has sent here more than so doc
tors. Some Of these died heroieally i'll
1.-THE typhus scourge Of last winter: 9TH
Iers are doing fine work at the front and
in the hospitals in the small towns and
lcities. France undoubtedly stands first
in the affections of the Rumanians;
then comes the United States and Eng
land. French is spoken here almost Us
commonly as Rumanian; in fact, it is
falmost the sole. language in govern
lment and in social circles.
In spite of the grave possibility OF
| Russia concluding separate peace
one of the cabinet members has de-
clared that Rumania will stick with
her allies until the last and will never
make separate terms with Germany
The Rumanian government naturally
takes a pessimistic view of events IN
Russia Ii Russia, which has nearly
100000 troops assisting the Rnma :
mans in preventing further invasion
| by the CeHlidl powers, Stiouih ''itNiu'''
a separate peace, by no possibility
could the Rumanian army, now mum
herring little over 100000, hold the
line against the Germans,
| Ii this should happen and the Teu'
tonic forces as q consequence shotiia
take the remaining portions OF Rurna
MIA, the Rumanian government anc
royal family would probably so to Eng
land or France, or possibly to Japan
and conduct a nominal administration
from there similar TO the course foi-
lowed by Belgium and Serbia.
In the event Of the evacuation of this
TERRITORY the American Red Cross
would probably work it's way down Il
Mssopotamia by way of Persia or pos
sibly go to England or France. Auto
mobiles are kept at hand TO take the
organization out at the first real sign:
OF danger
| II is understood that the United
States government has given its mill
tary attache here $4,000 to spend il
propaganda work among the Russian
soldiers. Although this is recognized
as an excellent motive, 1t is feared tina
il has come too late to be effective
| because the decentralization and disaf
lection in the Russian army has gone
too far. 1t is felt, before the allied gov
ernments took measures TO check ant
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