The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-10
j. S. RED CROSS IS
DEAR TO GREEKS
Organization Cares for More
Than so, o Refugees
in War Times.

NANTHI, Greece. July 10. GORE
Greece is indebted to the United States
for many things, but she probably will
remember longest the aid given by the
American Red Cross to the so, 900 or
more refugees who have been coming
back from Bulgaria and Asia Minor
over every road and mountain pass.
Unable through its own agencies to
care for this immense number Of home
less and destitute people, the Greek
government left the task to Americas
big relief organization. King Alexan-
der, Premier VaniZelos and the Greek
government have already testified their
gratitude for this assistance which was
made possible through the generosity
of the American people.
Twenty-four hours after the signing
Of the armistice, the Red Cross estab-
lished relief stations at every point in
Bulgaria, Turkey and Macedonia over
which these innocent victims Of the
war were likely to come. II dispatched
trainload after trainload of supplies to
the areas in which suffering was known
to be worst.
The stream of refugees has not yet
ceased, and the work OF the Red Cross
continues. There has been a serious
development Of typhus among the refu-
gees quartered in Ravallla. Drama and
this city.
Edward Walker, of Luray, Va, a
young officer in the American Red
Cross, gave his life in fighting the dis
ease. Three American nurses have
also been stricken but are recovering
in Greek hospitals.
Some of the experiences of the Amer
leans in relieving the great misery
among the refugees have been tragic.
A woman Red Cross worker thus de-
scribes a typical day spent by Lieut..
Abner Cobb, of Denver, Col, at his
lonely Red Cross relief station at
Xanthi:
with the assistance of two Greek
boys he fed from 800 to 1000 people,
administered to the sick. and gave out
ratlons of bread and soup n rice, and
that day had been able to add bully
beer to his rations.
There were As cars on the side
track loaded to the limit, 40 to go per-
sons to the car. These refugees car
ried with them in the cars their
donkeys, pigs, chickens, sheep, goats
and personal effects. From a few of
the cars, cows poked their heads. In
this environment one baby has been
born.
Lieut.. Cobb numbers the cars when
they come in and counts the inmates,
Chalklng their NUMBER up on the OutSiue
of the cars. His kitchen is on the
tracks. He selects four persons from
each car to come after the food, bring
ing with them their own reCeptacles. In
that way they are cared for swiftly and
without confusion. After everything is
served, he goes through the train to see
that no one has been overlooked.
ION this train was the governor OF
Zichni and his wife, both pitifully
wasted, He had been deported Is
months before to Bulgaria, together
with 81 others from his town. Thirty
seven Of his party died OF i'll treat
ment in Bulgaria"
The same observer, writing regard
ing a visit to the American Red Cross
station at Kavalla, says:
To-day there are fewer than 1O,O0t
inhabitants in Kavalla. When the Bull:
gars evacuated the town they looted
It systematically, stripped the stores
and banks, took all the food and sweep
the homes bare, taking not only all thu
furnishings, but all the window. glass
door and window fixtures, electric ligh
wires, door knobs, etc.
I'm the Struma valley, noted for NOR
thar 1000 years as the home of a pecu
liarly deadly form of malarial fever, tn
road runs to Drama where the Ameri
can Red Cross has another relic
station. The plague Is raging through
out the valley. There has been an un
usual number of deaths, as there Is
lack not only of doctors, but OF medi
ciOeSn