The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-20
RED CROSS AI) HELPED RUSSIANS

An Associated Press correspondent who was sent from TOlio across Si- heria to OnSix, in Southeastern Rus sta. to report the situation of the All Russian Government there, has for warded by mail several interesting ar ttcles showing what the American Red Cross is doing for Russians in that remote city and giving some impor- tant sideIights on the problems faced by the anti -Bolshevik forces having headquarters at Omsk. One of the first of the articles forwarded from C.lIlsk by the correspondent follows:
 On7sk, March --(Correspondence Of The Associated Press.) )---Praise for the work of the American Red Gross is q dominent note of public express sion here. The organization has i opened a, weu-appointed hospital four versts outside the city of OnsA, with AGO beds and 25e patients, chiefly Rus sians, with a few French. The hospi- tai is capable of holding 1000 beds, If necessary.
 { The OnlslI hospital is merely one of a series of phiIanthropic medical inst1- tutions which have been organized in Siberia mainly through the efforts of ] Dr. R. B. TeusIer. of ToIio the chair man of the Red Cross Commission to Siberia He has been travelling about to points in the interior obtaining bases and buildings for the hospitals. l Russians thus have been made to realize that the American Red Cross is here to be of genuine and effective assistance.
 ! Red Cross work in interior Siberia has provided a hospital at Tuue1, with d capacity of 800 patients and dental clinics at Cheliabinsk and Eha- | terinburg An American doctor was detailed to serve on the staff of the Ccezho-Slovak army and Q, field unit with two surgeons was main tained with the Eighth regiment of Czecbs until winter stopped the most active operations There Is now be ing opened at PetropavIovsk an American typhus hospital for Rus sians, with a capacity of 400 beds. Dr. F. F. DilIey, an American physician from Picking, is at OmSk and is med iical director of the Western Division of the Red Cross, extending from IT. kutsIl to uhe Urals.
 | At Taiga- Ovo-Nikolaevsk and other places, more than 2,000 persons are under Red Cross care. MILK sta tons are provided for school children. When there are no men in families. monthly donations are made in needy
 
 chiIdren's undercIothing are distrib- iuted. Clothes have been given to 800 Polish families.
 At six points in the Ural mountains t'etrograd refugee school children. Those who are in proper condition are being sent to school. The Red Cross has given large stores of supplies to lCZecho- o-SIovak and Russian military an5i civilian relief and is aiding in the transport of medical supplies for the Russian Red Cross.
 General Gaida, in a telegraphic or der, has expressed his gratitude to the American Red Cross and to Dr. Teus- Ter for care of the wounded and in- vahds of the Czech and Russian troops under his command, as well as for the aid given to the refugees, and assistance shown in the fighting of
 epidemic diseases. He also voiced his thanks for donation of warm under wear and other winter clothing to the iCzecho-SlOvak troops.
 Similar appreciation was voiced by the commander of the First Middle Siberian Corps. The commander, who
 is General Pepeliaeff, telegraphed:
 The Siberian soldier. fighting 1IT1- der difficult conditions, has high es- reem for the a1truism of the An1eri- can people. He sends to the American people his hearty Russian thanks"