Child refugees from Russia. On the American Red Cross relief ship bringing Russian refugees from the port of Odessa in the Black Sea hundreds of children had the first wholesome food that they had ever tasted. Some of them had never tasted salt before, that being one of the most difficult things to obtain in Russia at the present time. When they arrived in Constantinople, where they were deloused and given medical attention before being sent to the concentration camp arranged for them on the island of Proti, far out in the sea of Marmora, they were met by Junior Red Cross of America directors who had large supplies of clean clothing, shoes and underwear awaiting them. To these miserable, unoffending waifs, who have known little but suffering and terror in their short lives this was almost the first sign that human kindness was to be found in the world. Their changed spirits spoke worlds of gratitude for American children whose slender savings brought them so much comfort and happiness
