AMERICANS ARE
CAMPED ALONG
RIVER THAMES
LONDON, Feb. 10 (Correspondence
of the Associated Press).—On the
banks of the Thames, less than twenty
miles from London, there is an Ameri
can town of the mushroom kind such
as you might find in a new California
oil field. Its population consists of
more than 200 white men and about
150 negroes. It covers thirty-five
acres which, nine monthe ago, were
fallow grass land. The business of
the town is to receive, sort and store
war material. It is the great Ameri
can supply depot in England.
There is a street of wooden huts,
another of corrugated iron huts, huge
iron store sheds a quarter of a mile
long, office buildings, water supply
and electric lights, the whole sur
rounded by a hedge, a few armed sent
ries and much mud. All day long the
khaki-clad negroes push and haul rail
way trucks full of war material.
Englishmen peer over the hedge
and ask satirically if the United
States doesn’t know that the war if
over. If they ask an officer for en
lightenment about this strange camp
his explanation is something like this:
“America came into the war witl
both feet, banking on at least three
years of it, which was the 3afe thing
to do. Our government made contracts
with British manufacturers to supply
our army with tons of war material
from a tin tack to a steam roller. The
British factories built new plants and
took on new hands to meet our needs,
and deliveries were going smoothly
when the armistice was signed.
“If we had scrapped our contracts
then, some British firms might have
been driven into bankruptcy, putting
thousands of men out of work and
leaving the factories with tens of use
less material on their hands. So the
United States government merely can
celed orders for material that had not
been actually started on, and told the
factories to go ahead with what they
hand in hand.
“This place is the collection station
for that material. We are receiving
tractors for guns, entrenching tools,
thousands of yards of camouflage wire
netting, stacks of asbestos roofing for
hospitals, timber frames for huts,
wheelbarrows, shovels, pickaxes,
bolts, screws and a lot of other stuff.
We are going to store it all here and
REPORTSARE
THAT HEALTH IS
GOOD IN SERBIA
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NISH, Serbia, Feb. 6 (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press).—The
health of the population of Serbia is
surprisingly good. There have been
few cases of the dread typhus, or even
of influenza. In both the military and
civil hospitals the work of Serbian
doctors, whose number since the war
began has been reduced by more than
half, is being supplemented by Brit
ish, French and American physicians.
The American Red Cross has hos
pitals at Uskub and Monastir, and will
establish others in Northern Serbia
if required. Major Daniel J. McCar
thy of Davenport, Iowa, is in charge
of the hospital at Uskub, and Dr. R. B.
Keyes of Buffalo of the one at Mon
astir. There are Red Cross doctors
and dentists at Nish, Belgrade and
other points.
In the Monastir district there is a
special Red Cross mission for the pur
pose of training Serbian peasants in
American farming methods and en
couraging them to use modern agri
cultural machinery.
At several places the American Red
Cross is distributing food and clothing
to an increasing number of persons
daily. A shipment of food and medi
cines which recently arrived in Fiume
has been sent into Northern Serbia,
and soon the Red Cross will be caring
for destitute persons in almost every
section of the country. This work is
being conducted from Saloniki, where
Major John P. Carey of Colorado
Springs, Colo., acting commissioner of
the Red Cross mission to Serbia, is in
charge. The commissioner to Serbia,
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas W. Far
nam of New Haven, Conn., expects to
establish headquarters at Belgrade at
an early date.
The weather is extremely cold and
fuel is very scarce. The Austrians
and Bulgarians deliberately wrecked
entire buildings in order to make fire
wood of the flooring and window
frames. There is scarcely any petrol
in the'country, and ordinary kerosene
is selling at $5 a quart. The coun
try’s coal mines can not he worked
because most of the miners still are
in the army. / fa, -
Railroads and highways are in a la
mentable condition, and present many
obstacles to the task of getting relief
supplies to the interior. The enemy
forces in their retreat wantonly de
stroyed large sections of (he railroads,
and as a result certain regions must
rely on automobile transport. Only
the most powerful motor cars and
trucks can get over the war-worn
roads. The army has most of the
country’s horses and they will not, be
available for transport or agricultural
purposes for some time.
sell it later on. It will all be useful,
and we can wait for the market. The
manufacturer couldn’t have waited.”
War material coming back from
Russia is being stored at this camp,
also the fittings for the dismantled
hospitals which the American army
established in England.
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