Evening star., 1920-05-30
DEATH IS FACED
| BY FOUR MILLION
CHILDREN ABROAD
Terrible Picture of Famine
and Disease in Many
Countries Is Pictured.
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
BY Cable to The Stnr and Chicago
Daily News. Copyright. 1920.

Daily News. Copyright. 1920.
! GENEVA. May 29.-Four million
lchildren are threatened with death
from famine and disease in Europe
and Asia Minor.
Such is the information of the CEN
trail bureau of the International Chill
Idren's Aid Union formed recently un-
der the auspices of the International
Red Cross. The movement to save
the children who are to form the next
lgeneration of citizens on this con-
ltinent has aroused a response of gen
lerosity in nearly every country of the
Iworld.
Even France and Italy, with nu-
tmerous war orphans of their own,
have responded nobly to alleviate the
Imisery of the children of central
Europe. but an immense amount of
work remains to, be done.
! Situation Is Revealed.
By countries, the situation is as
follows:
Ukrainia-No figures available. but
approximately 80 per cent of the
population is afflicted with typhus.
malaria, venereal diseases or small
lpoX, including. of course, the children.
| South Russia-Infant mortality has
lrisen in some regions to 80 per cent.
In kuban 100000 refugees, chiefly
women and children, lack everything.
Many died along the road in the wake
of the Denikin retreat. and many died
in refugee trains on the way to Novo-
rossi.
Armenia-Thousands of children
ireported wandering about like house
less savages. separated from their
parents and eating grass and nuts.
The Caucasus-There are 100000
lorphans in the town of Ok Erivan
lalone. Typhus is raging.
AZ Per Cent Ill and Feeble.
Poland-Of the total of 100000 or
l4,000,000 children. about AZ per cent
lare i'll or enfeebled. Nearly 100000
lare orphans or separated from their
parents. About 100000 children are
running wild and girls from twelve
to fourteen years of age have been
compelled to lead lives of shame in
Iorder to exist. There is a dire lack
of food and clothing.
| BulGaria-There is no milk to be
had and infant mortality is high.
Serbia-Two hundred thousand or
jphans are wandering uncared for and
living from hand to mouth. There
is much tuberculosis. -
Hungary-The infant mortality is
40 per cent. In 1918 $4,000 more chill
dren died in Budapest than were born.
IOne-tenth of the children in Budapest
are tubercular. Newborn babes
weigh on an average between four
and five pounds. Seventy-five thou
sand children lack shoes; there is al
most no clothing available.
1 .Austria-Twenty thousand children
in Vienna have tuberculosis of the
bones and 100000 have pulmonary
tuberculosis.
Millions Have Tuberculosis.
Germany-A million and a half war
orphans and thirteen million other
children need aid. Two and a half
million have tuberculosis and are
|underfed. Practically all school chill
dren are far under weight and in
fant mortality has increased in some
places by 158 per cent. There is an
acute shortage of milk and fats.
Mothers are often unable to nurse
their babies owing to malnutrition.
100000 needy infants. There are 70O,-
600 needy children between the ages
Of two and fourteen years, of whom
| 100000 are uncared for. OF $4,000
tubercular children 13.500 remain un-
attended. The infant mortality has
greatly increased. Lady Murie1 Paget
estimates that in Bohemia and Mo-
ravia 100000 children need clothes
| In Slovak1a 17,0OO need clothes and
$500 ten-pound rations are required.
Juvenile crime and immortality have
increased frightfully. There are many
girl mothers.
Baltic states-There are refugees
everywhere. Ten thousand children
need aid in the town of Dvinsk alone.
| Rumania-No information avail
able.
Thousands Of War Orphans.
/ Greece-More than $4,000 war or
| phans are here.
Italy-There are 100000 war or
phans Nevertheless. Italy is caring
for 4,500 Austrian children.
! France-There are many children in
the north who were mutilated by pro-
jectiles in the war or by accidental
explosions since the armistice A
special school for mutilated children
has been established at Tourcoing.
More than 100000 war orphans are
dependent on the state.
In the city of Lille 40 per cent of
the children show signs of tubercu-
losis and more than half Of the lit
tie school children have been sent to
hospitals since the armistice. France
aslo has begun to help take care of
| Austrian children.