E. S. HACKNEY. Mr. Hackney also sent a contribution to the Pennsylvania Red Cross. GERMANY [Illustration: IMPROVISED AMBULANCE—OFFENBACH SYSTEM. LEADERS AND DOCTORS’ MEETING AT MAYENCE.] [Illustration: METHOD OF TRANSPORTATION TO SHIPS. (SANITARY COLUMNS—HOCHHEIM).] During 1908 the members of the German Red Cross Relief Columns gave assistance in 8,268 cases of accidents, 4,643 of which occurred in factories, showing the value of first aid instruction among men employed in manufactories. [Illustration: IMPROVISED BICYCLE AMBULANCE. COLLIE DOG TRAINED TO SEARCH FOR WOUNDED. (SANITARY COLUMNS—BROSKAW.)] _Das Rothe Kreuz_, the official organ of the German Red Cross, gives interesting accounts of the great assistance rendered by the Relief Columns of Nuremberg in the earlier part of the year and also of that given by the Relief Columns of Osterburg and Seehausen after floods in their respective neighborhoods in November, 1908, and February, 1909. The Osterburg Column had already proved its usefulness after a railroad accident in 1903. Since then it had established an alarm system and by means of this it was quickly called into active service. Provided with boats placed at its disposition for this work, its members rescued many, and to others, who were cut off from the outside world by the flood, carried food and other supplies until the waters subsided. In some cases persons who were ill were carried in wheel ambulances on the boats and then transferred to the hospital at Osterburg. In February the Seehausen Column proved of service in its neighborhood. Its wheel ambulance stands always at the market place near the bridge, its station being marked by a Red Cross flag. These facts are a new proof of the value of these columns to any community and that they can provide faithful and capable assistance in every kind of accident. [Illustration: METHOD OF TRANSPORTING WOUNDED FROM THE BATTLEFIELD. (SANITARY COLUMNS—KONIGSHUTTER.)] GREAT BRITAIN [From _Daily Mail_ (Great Britain), August 18, 1909.] _The Red Cross in Every Home._ We are enabled to give to-day full details of one of the most remarkable developments of the voluntary principle in English life. It is a scheme which makes a great and comprehensive effort to enlist the patriotic services of all classes for a humane purpose—the succor of the sick and wounded in war. Further, the scheme will associate with the Territorial Force thousands, including women, who can not themselves serve in our army for home defense.