James T. Nicholson and Wayne Taylor, American Red Cross representatives entrusted with relief in Poland, returned to Berlin yesterday after a 12-day tour of the Warsaw, Cracow and Lublin areas.
In a short cable received by the Red Cross here today from Berlin they said that there were food shortages in Cracow and Warsaw, which “were caused by transportation difficulties.”
Although they were the first Americans allowed into the Lublin reservation since the outbreak of the war, their cable made no mention of their visit there, the Red Cross said. Red Cross head quarters pointed out that this preliminary report was received from Berlin and that Nicholson and Taylor might have considered it impolitic to send anything about conditions within the Lublin reservation.
The cable said that the Red Cross men were satisfied with the manner in which supplies had been distributed thus far. They said that further medical supplies beyond what is now en route to Poland would not be necessary.
(The Associated Press said Nicholson and Taylor had reported to Red Cross officials in Geneva that health conditions in German-occupied Poland were “better than normal” since cold weather and German Army sanitary measures had reduced epidemic danger to a minimum.)
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