WAR ORPHANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1921, Page 5

WAR ORPHANS.

PROBLEM FACING EUROPE. Upon his return to Washington from a visit to Europe, Dr. Livingston Farrand, chairman of the Central Committee of the American Red Cross, issued a statement regarding conditions in Europe. “There is one problem that overshadows all others, and which the world must be brought tp realise,” he said. “That is the problem of the children of Europe. Red Cross estimates, which are necessarily uncertain, but extremely conservative, indicate at least 11,600,000 children in Europe, fatherless from war, who face .the next few years without hope of adequate care, unless outside assistance is given. The Red Cross estimates that Poland has at least 500,000 orphans, most of whom know no homes but camps for destitute refugees. In Ozechio-Slovakia, Austria, and Hungary are 1,000,000 war orphans. Recently some 5000 of these were found neglected and wandering like animals in the Ruthenian mountains. In Yugoslavia are probably half a million. Some have been found living in devastated villages, from which all the adults have fled. It is evident that tiie American Red Cross cannot at this time withdraw from Europe aa it had expected, but must remain to help save the children and fight disease to whatever extent the resources placed at its disposal by the American people make this possible.”