Bingham Bulletin | 1920-10-15 | Page 1 | Red Cross Relief in Central Europe

RED CROSS RELIEF ' IN CENTRAL EUROPE But for timely assistance of the American Red Cross during the Inst year, a large proportion of the 20,000,-000 20,000,-000 population of the Balkan States might have starved or perished from disease or exposure. Six million dollars dol-lars worth of food, clothing' and medical medi-cal supplies have been sent to the Balkans Bal-kans Roumnnia, Bulgaria, Albania, Montenegro, Serbia, Bosnia and Greece since the beginning of Red Cross relief re-lief operations In Centra) Europe, while millions of dollars worth of food alone has been sent to the needy In these states. The money expended by the Red Jross In this stricken portion of Europe Eu-rope has been nsed to set up hospitals, orphanages, dispensaries, mobile medical medi-cal units and to help In the general reconstruction re-construction of devastated areas. American Amer-ican tractors and other farming Implements Imple-ments have been sent Jo the agrlcul-