Weekly journal-miner., 1919-06-04

tke Polish military guard, which wifi control the final disposition of the prisoners.
 Four hundred Norwegian ski run ners served with the Bremen Red Cross in the first aid stations in the Vosges mountains.
 One hundred and fifty tons of food and supplies are needed weekly for relief in the Balkans.
 American portable houses are ap- bearing at Termonde, Belgium, the American Red Cross having given
 10000 to the municipality to build cottages to accommodate returning inhabitants. Termone, one time a ,ity of 10000 industriaus Belgians, ay in the path of the German army n 1914 Factories were dismantled, -ailroad lines torn Up, after the Ger nan fashion, but the rebuilding of the lomes IS considered the first essen -ial to reconstruction.
 The international committee at Geneva, Switzerland, acting through he American legation at Berne, has invited the United States govern. ment to name representatives on a ioint international commission to con
 der means and take measures for preventing spread of spotted or exam lhcmatic typhus in Eastern Europe, especially in Poland, Siberia and the Ukraine. The epidemic threatens to spread over Central and Western Flu rope. The general situation affecting the matter in question is now under consideration at the Cannes confer encc of specialists, who are engaged n preparing reports for submission to the forthcoming international con vention of Red Cross societies at Geneva.
 Ten thousand persons in Poland are dying every week of typlus, ac' cording ton an estimate made by the American Red Cross mission on field ,eports just completed. Unless the barest necessities, such as isolation, soap and clean underwear, are pro yided without delay, says a late ca bIegram, cholera and dysentcry viii surely follow with farm weather, and before another winter whole villages will be decimated. Typhus and other diseases are especially severe in the Oobrowa coal mining region, where 'te death rate jumped from B per 1000 in 1913 to 15O day Only 20 per cent of the population of this region is free from tuberculosis. OF he situation, Prof. Vernon Kellofg, member of the United States Food Administration. said: "It will take a -ea rto put Poland on her feet There ire at least 5,OOO,OOO people scattered over 10000 square miles, who are torsc off than were the Belgians, be- ~ause they have been without any help whatsoever for four years They re absolutely dependent on the al ies for food, clothing, hospital sup lies and medicines, and I believe the
 llies have no more important duty han to hasten all availablel assist opce. We nave shipped in 80,00O tons of foodstuffs, but that is not enough. We must send in that quantity every month"
 Construction of Red Cross nurses hous at Letterman general 'ospital has been authorized by Washington. This will be the fourth nurses clubhouse to be built by the Pacific Division Red Cross. Others completed and now in use are at the United States Public Health hospital Palo Alto formerly U. s. Army hos ,ital. Camp Fremon). Camp Harry J. Jones, Douglas, Arizona, and Camp Kearny, San Diego. Besides the nurses houses, the Red Cross has rix convalescent houses in the Pacific Division, ground for the sixth having been broken last Monday at Mare ls- land. The one at Lettcrman hospital 'S nearly completed; the one at Whip ole Barracks, Prescott, will be ready for occupancy in June. The other
 aree, which were in use before the .;gning of the armistice, are at Camp Kearny. Camp Harry J. Jones and at the Public Health service hospital. The convalescent houses provide re creational hall, library, reading and writing rooms for the hospital pa tents. officers and attendants, and
 he nurses houses, the usual service of q woman's clubhouse for the nurses when off duty.
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