Show AUSTRIA ASKS SERB RED REO CROSS WORK NORK I BE ENDED Discontinuance Will Be in Order When Supplies Are Distributed I B By 81 Prex IIO to Tho Telegram I WASHINGTON Nov 29 Austria Austria Austria- I Hungary has asked the American Red RedCross RedCross RedI Cross to discontinue relief work in I Belgrade and In other parts of northern northera north north- ern era Serbia SerMa conquered by the Teutonic I forces when supplies now on hand handI have been distributed The suggestion I reached here today through Ambassador dor Penfield at Vienna The Austrian government expressed its deepest gratitude to the Red Cross for what wha has haa been done and gave no reason fo for asking its discontinuance Red Cross officials here heie surprised at the request say the work practically ally Is at a standstill of ot the Impossibility of securing supplies since Rumania entered the tLe war The work will necessarily cease about DeI December De De- I cember 1 1 Nearly has been contributed I to that section from this country while carloads of supplies from Rumanian relief committees and eighty from Swiss committees have been distributed by the American agents Edward Stuart assisted by Charles Fox has cared for about 36 people in Belgrade and Dr Edward Ryan has endeavored to reach about inthe inthe in inthe the interior American relief in southern Serbia now is thrown into greater Importance by Austria's request and especially by bythe bythe bythe the advance of the allied armies about Monastir Reports from that city say people are in distress as the retreating armies of the central powers powers pow pow- ers are said to have stripped the city bare of or supplies Shipments are POW POW-I being being be be- ing lug prepared for that section |