The Belgians rejoice to see therein the sanction, by the vote of millions of citizens, of their universally prevalent desire to have peace insured. The international work of Geneva is a symbol of the union of nations, and constitutes a most reliable guarantee of the maintenance of humane principles throughout the world. The choice of your high personality, whose generous sentiments are well known, is for all a happy token of the great role which your country will take in future in the domain of charity. Again have the American people given to the world a beautiful example of humane solidarity in preceding other nations in showing their generosity to the populations afflicted by the Calabrian cataclysm. Be pleased to accept, Mr. President, the expressions of our highest consideration. The President, PRINCE DE LIGNE. HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT. President of the American National Red Cross. FRANCE. As soon as the reports came of the disaster in Italy a meeting was held of the Central Committee of the French Red Cross for the purpose of considering what assistance it could render. Ninety Red Cross nurses were promptly sent to the scene of the calamity. Reports of what other Red Cross Societies have done for Italy will be given after their bulletins and other publications have been received. GERMAN RED CROSS. On January 6th the German Red Cross dispatched for Southern Italy a number of physicians, trained nurses and relief corps men with the equipment of a field hospital. The party proceeded from Naples first to Catania, where the Austrians were rendering efficient assistance and where a number of Greek ships, flying the Red Cross flag, were acting as hospital ships, so it continued directly on to Syracuse, and was there put in charge of a hospital established in a large barracks. In the same barracks the Red Cross of Brescia was in charge of a hospital and another was under a Florentine personnel. By evening the many patients had been moved from the military cots to the comfortable Red Cross beds. An operation room was put in order and promptly utilized, for it had not been possible for the physicians of this small town to care for the hundreds of wounded who poured in upon them. THE CONGO. The Congoese African Red Cross, after twenty years of existence as a separate society with headquarters in Brussels, has, upon the annexation of the Congo by Belgium, given up its existence. Its hospitals at Banana and Leopoldville and its sanitarium at Banana, with its remaining funds, amounting to some seventeen thousand dollars, have been accepted by the Belgian Government, which, in its turn, has agreed to maintain these institutions with their personnel. The Red Cross Needs Members Will You Not Be One? Annual Membership, $1.00 Life Membership, $25.00 For Address of Your State Branch, See 3rd Page of Cover