Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1916 — MORE NURSES FOR SIBERIA [ARTICLE]

MORE NURSES FOR SIBERIA

Doctor Devine of Columbia Will Head Red Crow Party If It Goes to Camps. Washington.—A movement Is under headway to send another party of Red Cross nurses for service in prison camps in Russia and Siberia. Details of the arrangement have not been worked out and depend on the result of negotiations between the United States and Germany and Russia. If the party is finally kifthorized and sent over it will be headed by Dr. Edward T. Devine of Columbia university, the social worker, who speni the day in Washington conferring with Red Cross officials in regard to plans for the further aid of thousands who are confined in Russian prison camps. There are thirty five American Red Cross workers distributed among various camps In Russia and Siberia, and there is great need, according to recent appeals, for further help. Doctor Devine returned to Tfew' York, having given his approval to the plan of sending another party and agreeing to take charge of it if It is sent.