Report On Operations Of United States Relief Commission In Europe Classic Reprint

Author : U. S. Relief Commission in Europe
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332450230
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Report on Operations of United States Relief Commission in Europe, 1914 (Classic Reprint) written by U. S. Relief Commission in Europe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on Operations of United States Relief Commission in Europe, 1914 It was found that there were about Americans in Holland awaiting transportation to America by the holland-america Line and via England. Special trains had come in from Berlin and Munich, and it seemed that Holland was the normal point of egress for all Americans coming from Germany. It was determined to direct our efforts to gettin Amuicans out of Germany and perhaps even from Austria into olland, where we could send them home direct or through England. As was everywhere the case, the Ameri can legation had been working under a tremendous load. The women of the family even, with a large force of volunteers, had been labor ing from morning until midnight assistin their compatriots. Dr. Van Dyke, our minister at The Hague, had een able to arrange With the Dutch banks to cash American letters of credit and travelers' checks to reasonable amounts by indorsing the paper himself. Capt. A. H. Sunderland and Capt. E. D. Ardery were detailed to take over the transportation problem, and was left with them. By the courtesy of the Dutch Government we were offered a special train to the German border. Ca t. B. Enochs and Mr. Winslow, private sec retary to Hon. J ames Gerard, the American ambassador to Ger many, had accompanied a special train of Americans from Berlin to Holland and were of reat assistance in arran ing the details of transportation for us. Oth Capt. Enochs and r. Winslow deserve great credit for their management of the special trains that had been sent from Berlin to Holland before our arrival. At Bentheim we were taken over by the German railroad authorities. By the courtesy of the Dutch and German Governments in supply ing special trains for us, we were enabled to make the journey from The Hague to Berlin in 16 hours, which is only five hours more than the regular running time of fast through trains, whereas 32 hours was the best time made by trains since the beginning of hostilities. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.