The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-02-05
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IL per cent bread and ea and per cent bread and thin
soup.
evia and Lthuania having harder fight Tor
life than these struggling governments Children in Es-
some 100000 in Letvia, $4,000 in Lithuania $4,000
CONDITIONS EVEN WORSE IN
NEW BALTIC PROVINCES
The food situation in Esthonia is made doub acute by
the bawash of refugees from Russia and at least 10000
children of these refugees now living only by grace OF
meager charity.
within the starvation danger line Red Cross authorities
port and ricketts, and tuberculosis are finding them
ripe victims.
In bau $500 children must be given quick relief if they
are to be saved from death.
Ex-Representaye Walter Chandler Of New York
thona Lctva and Lhuania before congressional commit
tee only a few days ago, said
"Wan, haggard enacated FORMS ghosts of human
beings with atered hanging about them and skeleton
hands extended appeangy for help sckenng and ter
Thousands persisted in blizzard that swept Es
hona and hundreds Of babes found frozen at their
mothers breasts"
In Finland similar condition exists, with 10000 chill
dren weakened from lack of food and without warm
point in Finland In Hesngors where the combined lack
of food fuel and clothing has produced terrible suffering
To the east Of this hungerriddcn strip reaching thru
Central Europe, from JugoSava the Adratic to Fin
land the Baltic Sea- lies another country
in the most desperate straits This the land of perennial
suffering and hunger-Armena.
WORST CONDITIONS IN WORLD
EXIST IN RUSSIAN-ARMENIA
Colonel William N. Haskell reporting to the American
relief commission conditions in Armenia, says:
"The restitution in Russian Armenia exceeds anything
have heard of in the world today 1t is fact i'm
possible of contradiction that the Hoover food supplies
tending this winter have solely and exclusively saved the
Armenian nation from starvation and 1t equally certain
during the coming winter Unless program of relief is
set Immediately between 100000 and 100000 will die of
starvation"
n oJ
largely homeless hungry dseaserdden 2s5o are children
in the most dire straits.
Central Europe sketched by the latest reports reaching
Washington The details in any Of the countries named
ievabe hardship suffering abect misery that
rors of bad they and terrible the hardship
parson
As sketched above the figures present only the numbers
alone the makes But addition to the chill
dren there men and womenyoung middle-aged, old
Withstand for somewhat longer time the lack nourishing
food who maintain existence for time the scant
in danger Of death either from actual starvation from
disease to which their weakened condition makes them
victims.
Red Cross authorities declare that unless relief of
stantial nature is provided outside any possible internal
channels not less than 100000 people in danger Of
death in these countries in the next four months.
RELIEF ALREADY PROVIDED GIVEN
ONLY TO STARVING CHILDREN
of relief being given in these countries
administration. 1t is meeting far is possible within
the funds at its disposal the most immediate demands for
relief But II cannot feed all. 1t is forced to away
from its canteens daily hundreds and thousands of hungry
children To be hungry is not enough to win food The
child must be In exrems at the point of actual starvation
before saving bowl of soup cup of may be
secured.
only by this seemingly hearless method that the
maximum Of lives may be saved official of the chdrens
fund explains. With the money and the foods at its dis
posa the work must be confined only to those where
refusal virtually certain death.
The most terrible sight to be in all Europe" says
Herbert Hoover chairman of the American Relief admin
isration who organized the chldrens relief work with
funds carried from general relief appropriations "s
the children crowdng around the doors of the food
Kitchens hungry pitifuy begging for food but denied
food because atho they hungry they in mme-
date danger of death from starvation We are able to
take only the most desperate and give them supple
mentary meal of 600 caories day until we have built
them up out of the immediate starvation zone
"Then must turn them to make for others
lin condition. In most is probable that the
children we turn away this week. above the line of mme
date danger back below the danger mark within few
and must be restored lists another period