Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1918 — RED CROSS SPECIAL TRAIN [ARTICLE]

RED CROSS SPECIAL TRAIN

Three Thousaffli-MHe Dash Across Russia to Succor Roumania—Heroic Work Required.

Poor little Roumania, once so happy and so beautiful! Robbed of its rich lands by German hordes, its people driven back upon themselves, the once picturesque city of Jassy is, now crowded beyond. its limits with the country's destitute and starving. Nothing but the most heroic efforts of the American Red Cross has kept Roumania from actually disappearing from among the nations of the earth. When al! those who eould leave the country had fled Henry W. Anderson, American Red Cross commissioner to that outraged stuck to his P®st-R Ciseased, starving and ragged people were all about him. The cause seemed hopeless. Even Red Cross money could buy nothing in ■ Roumania. for the country was stripplies there, but how could they be

carried the 3,000 miles that separated SKSM32 civil war. Even with the authority Yet help camo < whole train load under the, charge of Lieutenant MagtmSoil of the American Red Cross to Russia. And Anderson Bebt this Cto hie: Sf-X-'d ‘ e. 'fWe awfodaty dtotribnting'food and .clothing to'mono than 10,000 people and increasing numbers every, weelfc Expecting shlpmefit of four more cars df food from Odessa this week. By erihrordifiary effort W belleve we «th contihw. of sufffctent supplier to carry- eta work.” ' And emOM Red Cross! to showing all ready to fight, tot the bm «• ready to help AH those others who ire fa thto battto f»r freedom. 7