The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1920-08-02
Typhus Killed $4,000
in One City, Report

|. SHANGHAI, by Mail I Fifteen
millions Of dollars were 70 nave been
spent in delousing Siberia If The
American Red Cross had remained i,
that country. This was revealed re-
Gently by Major e. H. Charette who
has come to Shanghai to supervise the
distribution Of two shiploads Of med
icinal supplies, valued at half a mill
ion dollars, which have been sent here
and are to be given to some 800 hos
pitfalls in China.
"Lice may yet defeat, Socialism, :
said Lenine.
''He is right" says Major Charette.
The Red Gross officer was captur-
ed by the Bolshevists at Karsnayask
and held prisoner for some time.
While he was in captivity the typhus
was raging in the city, which had a
population of 100000. There were
more than $4,000 deaths during the
time the major was prisoner. Six of
the victims were Red Cross men.
Although virtually prisoners the
Red Cross men directed the fight
against the disease and worked day
and night to check the epidemic. II
was then that the program for Sc
ries of quarantine stations and de,
lousing plants was mapped out. Fol-
this program $15,000,000 was to hove
been asked. But before more than
the. initial steps could be taken the
Red Cross was withdrawn from the
field.
1T is the most uncleanly nation ir
the world" said Major Charette
"but if we could have established the
quarantine stations and carried out
the p gram ! believe the typhus
plobicm would have been solved"
Supplies brought here for distri-
butt N to hospitals came in the steam
ships Hannmet and Simbirsk. The
supplies have been placed in the god.
won of the Fearon-Daniel Company
and plans for distribution are being
made,
Besides the two shiploads of sup
plies sent here for China's hospitals
another shipload was taken by Cap
tain K. s, Jones to Gensan, Korea
and from there trans-shipped TO Seoul
where it was turned over to A. W.
Taylor, chairman of the Chosen chap.
ter of the American Red Cross. One
shipload of supplies was stopped, en-
route to Siberia, at Kobe, Japan, and
the officers here have not heard what
disposition has been made of it.
Supplies valued at between two
millions and three millions of dollars
still remain in the Red Cross ware.
house in Siberia and the question OF
their disposal has not yet been set.
tied. 1t is the belief Of the officers
here, however, that a major portion
Of these goods will be sent to the
Philippines and Hawaii. Liberal sup.
port came to the Red Gross from the
Island peoples during the war and il
is Major Charette's opinion that due
recognition Of the fact will be given
Method of disposing of the mate.
rails here. has not yet been definitely
determined. Major Charette looks
very favorably on Nichols sugges.
ton that QUESTIONABLE be sent to the
hospitals in order that an efficient
system may be worked out. 1t NAV
be six months before the supplies
have been disposed Of.
In the lot of goods still in Siberia
there are many bulky articles, such
as furniture and fittings. No at.
tempt will be made to send these
home but, instead, they will be
brought 10 Shanghai and sold.
Great care is to be used in the dis.
tribution Of the Red Cross supplies
here, in Korea and in the Islands
Each hospital will be given a rating
according to its requirements, ca
pacity and efficiency and it will be or
this basis that the allotments will be
made