The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-02-20
ATTACHES OF RED CROSS
RETURN FROM SIBERIA
Miss MathiIde vossler Member Of A..
nicrican Relief Committee is
Probably still In Turkey

In view OF the fact that attaches Of
,ho American Red Cross commission
0 Siberia are nj present being return
ed to this country it is probable that
Miss Math.lde J. vossler is stil in
Turkey.
Miss Vossler, former recreation
supervisor of Bennington. when last
heard from by friends here was In
Cons antinople and expected within
a short time to leave for Siberia as
a member OF the American Relief
committee.
Ina nuniliating conditions in. Siber
la which are continually growing
worse instead of bet er have caused
much anxiety here among Miss Yoss-
ler's friends when they pictured that
she was, or soon would be, in that
country.
a recent associated press dispatch
announced that there were thirteen
New Englanders among the at
&ches o. The American Red Cross
commission to Siberia who sailed
rom Y adiyostuk. for San Francisco
on the transport Great Northern, Feb.
5. according to cable adyices received
at the division headquarters of the
Red Cross.
The list includes Ada G. Ayers,
Providence; Annie and Margaret Nc.
Caughey of Bristol r. I.;Mary NJ
darcy, Auburn, Mass, fromeuly Of
Pittsfeld; Eva Louise Smythe. New
Bedford; Margaret Fagerstrom, Wor-
ces .er; Roland r. Moxley. Fitchburg
and Mary Parsons of Williamstown
Miss Mary Parsons, mentioned in
he above dispatch as among the
nurses sailing from Siberia, is q
daughter of Mrs. Glare Parsons and
"a sister OF Mrs. John S. Gaiibraith,
both of Mooreland road, Wiliamstown
She is a graduate OF the Williams
town high school and was engaged
in nursing when she entered the Red
Cross service two years ago.
She is daughter of the late Rev.
Eben Parsons of Williams college fac
+ulty and who also served as secretary
of he wilkins Alumni association.
There Is reason to fear that Amer
icsn women in the isoated districts
of Turkey are not entirely safe. An
.assoc.a ed press dispatch of Wednes-
day is as TO lows:
Constantinople Monday, Feb 10
The American committee for RELIEF in
the near East today received mes
sage dated February Is from its Off
GERS a Adana, Asiatic Turkey, which
was construed to mean that all the
Armenlans have escaped from Marash
(north west Of Adana and north OF Al
eppo) southwark to Islshie, which is
on the railroad The message says
information this morning is that
he 1000 refugees retired to Islahie
with Col Nofmand. There was ex-
treme restitution and many were sick
or wounded. There is no informa-
ton from Aitab. The situation is
serious"
Mai. David @. Arnold of Providence
r. |. managing director Of the Am
erIcsn commission for relief in The
near East, said today that there were
10 American relief workers and six
American missionaries at the head.
quarters of the American board co..
lege at Marash. The relief workers,
he, said were DR.. and Mrs M. G. Wi
son Of Boonville. Tenn, DR. Mabel c..
Elliot of BENTON Harbor, Mich, Ma
bel Fl. Powers of North Hero. W.,
Helen Schultz of Reading, Penn, Min
ME p. Dougerty OF Holyoke, Mass,
Francis S. Buckley of Cape Vincent
N. Y, Paul V Snyder Of Plainview
Tex, Evelyn Trosie of Mcpherson,
Kan, and Stanley e. Kerr Of Darby
Penn.
The missionaries, al of whom are
under the American board OF missions
of IA Beacon street, Boston are James
X. Lyman, Ellen o. Blakely, Bessie
Hardy Agnes Hammond and Katie
Anslee.