Reports of the American Red Cross Commissions upon their activities in Macedonia, Thrace, Bulgaria, the Ægean Islands and Greece.

  • American Red Cross
Date:
1919
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Credit: Reports of the American Red Cross Commissions upon their activities in Macedonia, Thrace, Bulgaria, the Ægean Islands and Greece. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bread is worth ten eggs and an egg is valued at thirty cents. Sugar in Adrianople is worth fifteen dollars a pound. In order to show you the terrible situation of these martyrs, let me give you one more illustration. Six English nurses died at Dedeagatch and were buried. The grave-diggers had no sooner disappeared than the utterly naked and starving refugees rushed to disinter them and seize their clothes. Such was their need to cover their nakedness! Bulgarian hatred of everything Greek is unrestrained. In the American Mission was a Greek soldier who, while getting coal, was attacked from be- hind. I was myself compelled,” said Mr. Johnson, show- ing wounds on his arms, “to Jump in and rescue him from the Bulgarians’ hands. At all of our posts we buried every day five or six people. Latterly, thanks to the measures taken, the number of deaths has lessened. We strive at every cost to save the dying. Captain Machi- nich has now gone there to take my place and he will bring us fresh news. ‘There are in Bulgaria today at least 7,000 of these exiles.” Such was the account of this official representative of the Red Cross in Bulgaria, an account which is all the more significant as confirming our own information. He did not fail to declare to me that as long as there are Bulgarians in Thrace, there will be no end to their beastly atrocities against the Greeks. In particular, as to the activity of the Red Cross in Cavalla, there will be distributed every day, beginning with Christmas, one-third of a pound of bread to all those supplied by the kitchen (1. e. 5,000 persons), and rice, beans and peas once a week. On Christmas Day there will, exceptionally, be dis- tributed milk and fruit. Yesterday there arrived on the Adriatic for the American Red Cross 300 boxes of canned milk, 300 bags of beans, 100 bags of sugar, 40 bales of blankets, 10 bales of clothing, 30 cases of sewing machines and 5 boxes of stockings. Most of these will be
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