The quaintest and most picturesque spots in the Balkans are to be found along the shores of Lake Ochrida which is on the border between Serbia and Albania. This shows fishermen outside their delapidated home repairing their nets. The war brought much suffering to to these simple folk, who were forced to abandon theor only means of livlihood for five years when the American Red Cross arrived, they turned their fishing boats into transports and paddled the American Relief workers up and down the shores of the lake distributing food, clothing, and medicine

Victims of latest Balkan trouble. This picture shows a typical group of thousands of Albanian war victims who were interred in Montenegro during a recent Balkan squabble. The American officer is Lieut. Col. H.J. Fairclough, head of the American Red Cross Commission to Montenegro and former professor at Leland Stanford University in California. When these homeless, miserable women and children swarmed through the lines at the Serbian-Montenegro frontier they were filthy, vermin-ridden and frenzied with starvation and suffering. They were given a daily ration of American food and have since been returned to their own country by Red Cross workers co-operating with the Albanian refugee committee

Three wars in seven years with Turks, Bulgars, Austrians and Germans as enemies is enough to try the patience and burden bearing ability of any people. But the Serbs have gone through it and emerged with plenty of national spirit. But it's been reduced to the spirit of the mountain burro patient, slow, and uncomplaining. These little beasts were practically the only livestock left to the Serbs. So the burdens they carry are larger and heavier than the animals themselves. This shows a Serb mountaineer packing American Red Cross relief supplies on a burro for transportation to a remote village

Over the river and up the hill. The last stage in transporting American Red Cross supplies in transporting American Red Cross supplies in Albania. Albanians and Italians dragging a big American Red Cross truck across the Ishmi river toward the road to Tirana. Many rivers must be crossed in this fashion in the trip from Scutari in Northern Albania to the American Red Cross "Capital" at Tirana. Those who have not visited Albania have little idea of the tremendous difficulties overcome by American Red Cross doctors, nurses and doughboys who are working to get food, clothing and medicines of the needy Albanians

Scenes of misery in Serbia. In Strimlja, south Serbia, most of the children look like these. Dressed in filthy rags and living in the most unhealthy and miserable surroundings their poverty and helplessness is unbelieveagle sic Industrial and vocational training schools centers as planned by the Junior Red Cross of America for this section of war-ravaged Europe, will go a long way toward alleviating permanently the heritage of misery and ignorance which war has left these unfortunate children. To train some of Serbia's thousands of war orphans into skilled workers and competent artisans will not only lift up the race, but will enable the country to carry on its reconstruction now retarded and handicapped in every way through lack of laborers

Women of the Balkans. A typical group of women from the mountain district of Serbia. They are taking a sun bath on the side of the American Red Cross station at Batch while waiting for the distribution of relief supplies. Note their aprons and similarity of dress. The aprons are made of coarse handspun wool with fine red and white stripes. The jackets are the native costume of the village from which they come. They hav ewalked many miles for Red Cross supplies. Several of them are barefoot and none have stockings

Wasted Wealth in the Balkans. Thousands of dollars worth of "white coal" goes to waste in the Balkans every day through failure to make use of the existing water power. This grist mill has been in operation 350 years but it is utilizing only one fiftieth of the power that could be generated on this spot. Impressed by the tremendous coal shortage Europe is enduring, American Red Cross sanitation experts in Montenegro while inspection in the mountain streams to detect typhoid sources, have been amazed at the possibilities for hydroelectric installations

The quaintest and most picturesque spots in the Balkans are to be found along the shores of Lake Ochrida which is on the border between Serbia and Albania. This shows fishermen outside their delapidated home repairing their nets. The war brought much suffering to to these simple folk, who were forced to abandon theor only means of livlihood for five years when the American Red Cross arrived, they turned their fishing boats into transports and paddled the American Relief workers up and down the shores of the lake distributing food, clothing, and medicine

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Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Paris Office.
Group title: Serbia.
On caption card: (12897)
Used in: T.T & C. Jr. Jan. 1920.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
Temp note: Batch 11

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