American Red Cross Supplies in the Hold of a Greek Freighter ooo. Due to war conditions it was necessary to route the Grigorios and all subsequent shipments around the Cape of Good Hope, thus entailing voy¬ages of more than three months. These shipments were all covered by marine and war-risk insurance. A series of mishaps occurred to thwart the first attempts to get supplies to Greece. Due to newly promulgated economic controls, export permits were denied for the milk purchased in Yugoslavia. The shipment from the 26 British Red Cross Middle East stores was destroyed by fire, and the Grigorios was reported lost. The second shipment aboard the Kassandra Louloudis cleared for Pir¬aeus on January 21, 1941. Her 6,500 ton cargo of relief supplies, including $450,000 worth of foodstuffs, was valued at $1,146,000. She arrived at Port Said on April 15. En route to Piraeus on April 20, she was turned back off the island of Crete and returned to Port Said because of the invasion of Greece. For a short time it was believed that it would be possible to deliver this shipment to Crete, but the subsequent invasion of that island made it necessary to unload and store the cargo pending new arrangements. On February 22, a third shipment on the Hagios Georgios IV cleared New York, and on March 29 a fourth shipment aboard the Eugenia Livanos left for Greece. As these shipments, valued in excess of $2,000,000, could not reach Greece or Crete prior to the complete occupation of those territories, a por¬tion of the cargoes was made available to the Greek Red Cross representa¬tive in Cairo for assistance to Greek refugees in Egypt. The needs of the 1800 Greek refugees in Egypt required but a small part of the supplies, and the remainder was set aside for distribution under American Red Cross supervision to meet the needs of other war victims in the British Middle East. Pending the hoped-for arrival of American Red Cross supplies in Greece, the sum of $200,000 in cash grants was made available by the American Red Cross to provide for emergency needs. American Red Cross representation was withdrawn from Greece fol¬lowing the complete occupation of that country. Assistance is being ex¬tended, however, to Greek war prisoners through the facilities of the In¬ternational Red Cross. Relief to Greece, as of June 30, 1941, required an expenditure of $391,113. Yugoslavia Coincident with the invasion of Yugoslavia on Sunday, April 6, Amer¬ican Red Cross aid was offered, and on the following day purchases were being made for shipment of urgently needed supplies as quickly as possible to the stricken people of Yugoslavia. Due to the rapid military develop¬ments, however, it was not possible to ship these supplies to Yugoslavia. On the recommendation of the American Minister, an experienced administra¬tor, an American then resident in Belgrade, was appointed American Red Cross representative. At the same time, $25,000 was cabled to him with instructions that these funds were to be expended in the emergency for customary Red Cross purposes in cooperation with the Yugoslav Red Cross. Shortly thereafter, an additional $25,000 was made available, and a like 27