Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-14
RED GROSS REPORTS ON
ITS WORK IN RUSSIA
Million and Half Dollars Spent on
Food for Relief, Of Russian
Prisoners.
PROVIDE HOSPITAL FOR czEcHs
Thousands Must Be Fed, Clothed
and Given EmpIoyment-Activi-
tics in Roumania Compelled to
Stop-Scrbians Destitute.

WASHINGTON, d. c., October 49,
Following its plan OF issuing TO the
showing the use made OF the war fund.
the war council OF tho American Rcd
Cross authorizes the following. state
the Balkans and the Near East:
I'm European Russia tho Red Cross
| has spent to date s2:S07.sl9 or this.
1881 900 was for milk for the babies
Of petrosrad. where, in 1917. the child
welfare work vas greatly hammered by
the milk shortage. Slxty-eight thou
dollars S ", Was appfopTsated for is motor
ambulances. whicl, were sent to take
the place Of the rse-drawn. affairs
no5t for wSondsd fST mediea
spent. Among refugees, $4,000 was
usen for relief OF destitute families
men. $4,000 70. 5000 Russians In
switzerland. and $4,000 for l.2oo. Serbs
stranded III Siberia. For the relief OF
the northern terminus of the Muir
Inansk Railway, who had relied on
Pctrograd for their food. $4,000 was
"An appropriation OF s1.511.233 has
also been made for the purchase OF
several thousand tons Of food for the
relief Of Russian. prisoners who have
begun to return from Austrian prison
camps-sick, ill-nourished many OF
tham tubcrcuiar. This cargo was pur-
has row reached ArchanEel 4 Red
Cross party of thirteen, commanded by
Major G. r. Williams. Of Baltimore. ac-
comDanied the shipment
With tho German advance and the
growing political and Industrial chaos
the work, Of the Russian commission
had nerfores to stop But vast ST. field IL
Here wounded CZccho- Slovaks. pour
ing back into Vladivostok, were over
flowing the hospitals. ~ representa-
ot int Itx.y
and personnel rushed from Tokyo. and
with an initial appropriation Of $4,000
hospital on Russian Island, near
Of about zoo czechs. Fifteen Thousand
dollars monthly will be required for
maintenance. In addition, two 50 nj
tionary canteens and three disinfcct ing
cars are being equipped.
OVER S4,oO0.O0o APPROPRIATED
FOR WORK IN SIBERIA
The call for personnel and supplies
americans in Osaka, Pcking. Tokyo.
Shanghai and Manila. q base hospital
with. 800 beds Is to be equipped; also
units. The mission hospital at Gensan.
Korea. is to be taken over for Czech
tubercular patients. With the Czech
a diva, tr refasess arc pouring east
tents and freight cars along the
Chinese Eastern Railway west OF IIar-
bin--undcrfcd. undcrclothed., and with
the bitter Siberian winter before them.
Five thousand dollars was appropria ted
for their relief in July. but more are
coming. and the; Red Cross must clothe.
An employment bureau is operating at
Vladivostok. another at Hardin, a
refugee dispensary Is to be opened;
also disrcnsary car to serve scat
tered groups farther west UP to the
present time s3.2J3.2o0 has been ap-
pror-iatcd for work in Siberia.
Cross commission ended with tho HUI
initiating peace forced OH that coun-
KY, ,TS.,, Eu. % between September. 1917, and
aaroh' sb 1s1S r1 when they left, they &C
ss,s7s,3ss. 4 little less than sa.soo. 900
va was spent for FOOD. clothing and medl-
refugees and soldiers penned up in
Moldavia, tho mountainous northern
third OF Roumania. by the rapid Ger
taken over. 100000 was spent for gen
eral relief work. and SAT 900 for ad
r1iaistration expenses. a.
CONTINGENT OF DENTISTS
IS SENT TO, SERBIA
I'm Serbia. or what is left OF 1.-THE
narrow strip lying along the Greek
border-the Serbian commission found
5o,eeo refugees. mostly old men. women
t"rc and farm tools had been destroyed
or removed by tho invaders. so that
they were entirely destitute. Help
here took the form OF procuring seeds
and agricultural implements, at a cost
az $c44,43S. to enable them to cultivate
the 81 900 acres OF fertile soil aiill left
of their country. In this way. not only
VIII the population he provided for.
but reserves OF food will he available
Tor refugees in other districts. For
food and clothing for refugees scat
tered through Northern Greece, $429,-
1852 has been srent--this figure in
Guiding about $4,000 for supplies pur-
chased at Bucharest in 1915, and s25,-
900 for the relief OF l,2U0 refugees in
Siberia. At Nodena. the Red Cross sup
ports 5000 refugees. and has spent, for
the equipment and maintenance OF 2
small hospital, s3U.l13. II was found
that on the entire Serbian front there
was but one dentist, and contingent
CHANGE IN SCHEDULES SOUTHERN
RAILROAD, SUNDAY, OCTOBER
IL, 1918.