Jan. 8--California's relief cargo is on the way to Rotterdam.
Jan. 9--To date the value of cargoes of food, clothing, and medical
supplies delivered, in transit on the Atlantic, or arranged for from
the United States to Belgium amount to more than $14,000,000; milk and
sugar are scarce in Belgium, the babies feeling the influence of the
food crisis.
Jan. 10--Antwerp Council passes resolution of thanks to Americans,
whose help "is literally saving us."
Jan. 11--American party sent to relieve German and Austrian prisoners
in Russia is halted by the Russian Government pending negotiations.
Jan. 15--Large consignment of supplies is sent to Saloniki by American
Red Cross; Virginia and Maryland send Belgian relief ships; Georgia is
raising funds for a ship.
Jan. 21--American Red Cross issues report of its European activities
from Aug. 1 to Jan. 9; war fund thus far amounts to $1,188,000;
forty-five American Red Cross surgeons and 150 nurses are on war duty
in Europe; Sing Sing prisoners are to knit socks for Polish destitute.
Jan. 23--Mme. Grouitch, wife of the Secretary General for Foreign
Affairs of Servia, arrives in New York seeking funds for seeds for the
Servian Spring planting; Dr. Wickliffe Rose and Ernest Bicknell, who
have been in Russian Poland for the American Red Cross, report from
Berlin that conditions in Poland are worse, if anything, than those in
Belgium.
Jan. 24--Commission for Relief in Belgium has thirty-five chartered
steamships running between American ports and Rotterdam carrying
supplies.
Jan. 26--American Red Cross ships large consignment of supplies for
Constantinople and Servia.
Jan. 27--Commission for Relief in Belgium states that 76,000 tons of
food, in addition to supplies in sight, are needed for next three
months; there are now 1,400,000 destitute, and the number is
increasing daily.
Jan. 28--Committee of prominent American educators plans to have the
20,000,000 children of the United States help war sufferers through a
new fund, to be called the Children of America's Fund.
Jan. 31--Rockefeller Foundation denies that it has withdrawn from
Belgium relief work.