The Following are Extracts from a Letter of Hollingsworth Wood to Jane Addams
"It seems that originally there were 1,600,000 but owing to various causes -- all the way from actually returning and being received in their homes; the German Government's hiring Japanese ships to repatriate their Nationals; the Soviet Government's assuming moral responsibility, whether they have done anything else or not unknown to Mr. Keppel -- there are now about 14,000 to 17,000 prisoners, mostly Austrians and Hungarians near Vladivostok with perhaps a few Turks. The Joint Committee is trying to raise $1,500,000 to hire transports from the United States Government for these prisoners, (These transports are at present occupied in repatriating [Czecho]-Slovak troops) at $210.00 a piece, which includes Government ration on the way, to transport them from Vladivostok to Trieste or Fiume.
"We are actually trying to $3,000,000. ----
"The Red Cross has underwritten $250,000; the Joint Distribution Committee of the Jews, $250,000; and the Relief Committee of the Hungarians, $300,000. We hope that the YMCA and the Federal Council of the Churches and the Austrian group will be able to increase this fund materially."
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