Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1919 — AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE AMERICAN RED CROSS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE AMERICAN RED CROSS.

In Serbia.

As far back as the first winter of the war, the Red Cross sent to Serbia a sanitary commission that effectively checked the scourge of typhus, but after the United States entered the conflict, the Red Cross was able, in August, 191“. to send a full commission that carried on extensive relief operations among the suffering refugees of the tortured nation. Hospitals were established, the refugees fed, clothed and given medical attention, the army supplied with much needed dental treatrfitent, farm machinery, and seeds provided to help the Serbs redeem their land to productivity, and, not least, measures undertaken for the succor of the children. The terrible condition into which these helpless victim* of the war had fallen is well portrayed by this photograph of a little Serbian girl wearing the rags and expression of hopeless dismay that were all she possessed when the Bed Cross came.