Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-10-25
RED CROSS TELLS
OF WORK IN RUSSIA
LATEST REPORT ALSO COVERS
SIBERIA, THE BALKANS AND
THE NEAR EAST.


its plan of issuing to the American
people a series of reports showing the
use made of the war fund. the war
council of the American Red Cross
authorizes the following statement on
the work in Russia. Siberia, the Bal
kans and the Near East.
For relief work in European Rus
STA the Red Cross has spent to date
$2,SO7,919. OF this, $4,000 was
for milk for the babies of Petrograd,
$6S,975 for 1875 motor ambulances,
S3S4,163 for medical and surgical
! supplies One hundred and twenty
Thousand dollars were spent for the
-, relief of refugees in Siberia and Swift
zerland. and for destitute families of
soldiers in Russia.
For the relief of $4,000 railway
employees at the northern terminus
of the Murmansk railroad, $4,000
was appropriated. For the relief of
returning Russian prisoners $1,511,-
233 was appropriated in July, with
food, drugs and soap were purchased
and forwarded by a ship which has
now reached Archangel. A Red Cross
party of 10, commanded by Major c..
T. Williams of Baltimore, accompa-
MED the shipment.
I'm Siberia $4,273,20O has been
expended. The greater part of this
was for warm winter clothing. for
which there was great need among
the refugees and the Czecho-Slovak
troops. A hospital of $50 beds for
the accommodation of Czech wound
ed was equipped at cost of $4,000,
and $2O,45O was spent for the relief
of refugees.
I'm Rumania, in the six months be-
tween September, 1917, and March,
1918, $2,676,369 was expended. A
little less than two million and half
of this was for food. clothing and
medical supplies One hundred thou
sand dollars was for general relief
work, and $47.O0 for administration
Z Expenses.
For work in Serbia $1,244,197 has
tbeen appropriated. Seeds and agri-
cultural implements we're provided,
at a cost of S244,43S, to enable the
Serbs to cultivate what was left or
their country. Four hundred twenty
nine thousand five hundred ninety-six
dollars was spent for food and cloth
ing for refugees scattered through
Northern Greece-this figure includ-
ing about $4,000 for food purchased
at Bucharest in 1916, and $4,000 for
relief of Serb refugees in Siberia.
Thirty thousand one hundred ana
thirteen dollars was appropriated Tor
maintenance Of hospital at Vodena'
and $4S,59S for a dental contingent
to serve the Serbian army. F1fty
thousand dollars was also given to the
Serbian Red Cross.
For Greece, $4,000 has been
appropriated. A commission to
Greece, winch Will duHihS'S' 'H'S
sum. sailed from America in Septem-
Der. principally for relief among the
Greek population, among whom Is
great deal OF suffering. due to the
mobilization OF the army
IAN aggregate Of 100000 was
contributed to the American commit
tee for Armenian and Syrian Relief
for their work in Asia Minor, and IN
Palestine. the appropriations amount
Ito $59O,55S
4 This is for relief and industrial
service work among the destitute
Syrians, for the maintenance OF a.gen-
eral dispensary, children's clinic and
hospital, and for two orphan asylums
which have been assigned the Red
Cross by the British authorities. Much
work is also being done IN the camps
OF Armenian refugees at Port SAID
Jaffa, and elsewhere"