El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-05-22
RUSSIAN EXILES
EAGER To LIVE
IN RUMANIA
Refugees From Odessa
Flock to the Frontier
for Safety.
RED CROSS GIVES
HELP TO HUNDREDS

BUCHAREST, Rumania, Nay e.
d Many refugees from Odessa and
districts surrounding that city con-
tinue to flock to the Dniester. eager
70 cross over into Rumaniau terri
tory and restrained only by the Ru-
manian guard troops strung IN a
thick line along the 3essarabian bank
OF the river
Mai II H Snively, OF the Ameri-
can Red Cross mission to Poland, who
was dispatched from Warsaw at the
request OF the Polish Red Cross. has
taken charge OF the Polish refugee
movement Ackerman and Bender are
the two frontier points where the
pressure Of the fugitives has been
most felt With the Russian refugees
clamoring for admission into Ru-
mania. the Poles have rendered eX-
tremely difficult the problem OF feed
ing and clothing the newcomers
During the past few weeks, the Amer
lean Red Cross commission 70 Ru-
mania has eNerted every effort 20 IA
cilitate swift repatriation OF the Poles
to their native country.
Take Refugee at JasEy
Hundreds OF the Polish refugees
have been allowed by the Rumanian
authorities 70 establish themselves
temporarily at Jassy. Other refugee
camps have been improvised at Tul-
cea and Sulina- Maj rEngle Hart
ridge, acting American Red Cross
commissioner TO Rumanla, has rushed
clothing food and medicines TO Ca
latz, the port TO which during the
last few weeks thousands Of Polish
and Russian refugees have been COM
ranging from one 70 five hundred at
The flight OF the Odessa refugees
began at a moment when the Ru-
manian railway system had almost
completely collapsed In most cases
the arriving refugees were held for
days in quarantine at Sulina, then
sent to Tulcea and later TO Galatz.
where repatriation trains usually
awaited them Only those for whom
transportation was assured were per
mitted to land on Rumanian soil
Besides handling the refugee Stu
alton on the Dniester and at the IN
land camps, the American Red Cross
commission in Bucharest placed its
hospital supplies clothing and medi-
ciues, Warehoused at Constauza, at
the disposal OF Lieut. Col Ernest 3.
Bicknel. who has charge OF the
refugee problem "a southeastern Eu-
rope, with headquarters in CONSTANT
Child Welfare work
Pressing as the refugee relief work
has proved 70 be. none OF the other
activities undertaken in Rumania by
the commission were for one moment
allowed 70 suffer in consequence The
experiment in child welfare work. the
object OF which Is to train Rumanian
girls in American methods OF caring
for the infant population OF the war
torn country, promises TO result in
permanent good, according 70 Dr. A
F. Phillips. OF the commission. who
has recently been placed in charge OF
the work by the acting commissioner.
Miss Isabel Martin, OF Manusa, Col,
and Miss Elizabeth Gertrude Mitchell,
OF New York City. both Of whom are
American nurses, hope soon 70 have
a large class OF native girls ready 10
start work on their own account. Ef-
forts 70 establish child welfare cen
tiers have been under way in a num-
Der OF Rumanian towns
At some OF the private hospitals,
schools for nurses aids have been
opened under the guidance Of the
American Red Cross nurses. Among
the hospitals which have already
made a success OF the idea IS that
maintained by princess Caradjea- The
child welfare stations IN various parts
OF the country, and the card reports
received from them by the commits
sion show a tendency 20 growth,
In spite OF the epidemics which
still rage IN the infant hospitals. a
decided falling off in mortality has
been noted in Rumania-