Show ALBANIA TRUSTS U. U S. S PHYSICIANS Balkan Mountaineers Seek Only Liberty From Paris Conference I Tirana Albania May n 5 fly cn By Mall Albania desires nothing from the peace conference except Its liberty It wants neither man mandates ates nor pro pro- protectorates but simply govern self ment meat The simple mountaineers trust the tho soldiers of ot no nation and the pros pres ence enco of ot forel foreign n uniforms In their mountain fastnesses serves only to goad Joad them Into revolt against the tho in In- In vad vader varter er The only uniform which is welcome Is the tho American Alban Albanians lans associate the tho American uniform whether It be bo that of ot an army officer of or the Hoover I food mission or the American Red Cross with charity charit and the helping hand band Tho They put the tho broadest Inter Inter- upon the entry of or the American Amer Amer- l Jean ican ean Red Cross Into their country and sec see In It a n sign that America will back them Up tip in their claims for tor dence The harvest harest of or 1918 Ins was as very abundant abundant dant In Albania and thus tho the country escaped a serious shortage of or Coo food 11 However tho the need of or medical help and of ot clothing is universal The fhe mountain moun moun- tain thin people have practically no phy- phy anti and no medicines When they thoy aro arc taken takers ill III they lie down on the dirt floors of or their houses and are arc covered with blankets b by their friends there thero either to recover or die Tuberculosis and malaria are arc the tho commonest die dis cases eases There Is much malnutrition from Improper feeding especially among amons- the children Although they have haye no trust In their own physicians the natives will wm swallow swallow low without hesitation any kind of or a pill or draught from an American Red ned Cross physician or nurse American doctors and nurses are arc welcomed into Mohammedan 1 homes where other Christians would not b be admitted Mo Mo- women submit to operations opera opera- b by American physicians hero before they la lay down and died rather than have h a foreigner touch them Albanian mountaineers carr carry their children rp-n rp on for tor hundreds of or miles over the tho mountains to the nearest American Red Cross station In short Albanians have implicit confidence dence In Americans The Red Cross s h-s hIs opened dispensa dispensa- 1 I rice ries at nt Tirana Krola and n brat rat In addition d' d dis de- units travel tra throughout the country nUr nurses and doctors carrying their supplies food tood and bedding on over o er th th mountain paths Albanian physicians and young women are b being trained in American medical methods and antl when the Red Cross re re tires s from Albania American sup up plies will be left eft behind for tor their use e. e |