New Britain herald., 1919-05-09
AMERICAN RED GROSS
 ACTIVE IN GREECE
Much Has Been Accomplished
 Among Bulgarian Refugees

AdnInl, 1TSoCe, ApII1 ~. \tOIlS- spondence of the Associated Press. )-- Greece is indebted to the United States for many things, but she prob ably will remember longest the aid the 50,000 or more refugees who have been coming back from Bulgaria and Asia Minor over every road and mountain pass. Unable through it's number of homeless and destitute people, the Greek government left the task to Americas big relief orrn-..la- tion. King Alexander, Premiei Veni- already testified their gratitude for this assistance which was made pos sible through the generosity of the American people.
 Twenty-four. hours after the sign ing of the armistice, the Red Cross established relief stations at every point in Bulgaria, Turkey and Mace donia over which these innocent vic- tims of the war were likely to come. It dispatched trainload after trainload
  fering was known to be worst
 The stream of refugees has not yet ceas ased, and the work of the Red Cross continues. There has been a serious development of typhus among the refugees quartered in Kavalla Drama and this city.
 Edward Walker of Luray Va 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 Americans in relieving the great mis- cry among the refugees have been tragic. A woman Red Cross worker thus describes a typical day spent by Lieut.. Abner Cobb of Denver, Colo, at his lonely Red Cross relief station at Xanthi
 Did Good Work. With the assistance of two Greek | boys he fed from 800 to 1000 people, l administered to the sick and gave out rations of bread and soup and rice, and that day had been able to add | bully beef to his rations. l "There were AS cars on the side tracks loaded to the limit. forty to sixty persons to the car. These refu- gees carried with them in the cars their donkeys, pigs, chickens, sheep goats and personal effects. From a few of the cars, sows poked their | heads. In this environment one baby has been born
 1 Lieut.. Cobb numbers the cars when they come in and counts the in mates, chalking their number upon the outside of the cars. His kitchen is on the tracks. He selects four per- sons from each car to come after the food, bringing with them their own lreceptacles. Tn that way they are cared for swiftly and without confu- sion. After everything is served, he goes through the train to see that nc one has been overlooked.
 l "On this train was the governor ot zichni and his wife, both pitifully wasted. He had been deported 1s months before to Bulgaria, together with 97 others from his town. Thirty seven of the party died of ill 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 10,. 900 inhabitants in Kavalla. When the Bulgars evacuated the town they loot ed it systematically, stripped the stores and banks, took all the fooC and swept he-homes bare, taking not ionly all the furnishings, but all the window glass, door and window fix lures, electric light wires, door knobs etc.
 "In the Struma valley, noted fo more than 2,0OO years as the home o peculiarly deadly form of malaria fever, the road runs to Drama wher the American Red Cross has anothe relief station. The plague is ragin: throughout the valley There ha been an unusual number Of deaths a there is a lack not only of doctors bu ! of medicines"