The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 4, October 1909)American National Red Cross
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The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 4, October 1909)
American National Red Cross
American National Red Cross -- Periodicals; Red Cross and Red Crescent -- Periodicals
The income of the Central Committee of the French Red Cross last year
amounted to $71,162, without including those of the two branches, the
Association of French Women and the Union of the Women of France.
Legacies amounting to $11,200 were also received. The Academy of Moral
Science, in recognition of the Red Cross work in Morocco, awarded the
society the Audifferd prize of $3,000, the highest distinction it can
confer. As a recognition of the same services, the Chamber of Deputies
voted an appropriation of $3,000 to the Red Cross “as a testimony of the
gratitude of the nation.” The society, during the past year, sent to the
military posts 6,800 books and magazines, not counting 360 subscriptions
to periodicals; 3,612 games were also sent for the soldiers’ use. The
French Red Cross presented to the Queen of Italy and to the Duchess of
Aosta the gold medals of the society in appreciation of their heroic work
for the earthquake victims.
RED CROSS AND AVIATION.—Near the Red Cross temporary hospital stood a man
with a telescope, sweeping the whole plain. Beside him was an automobile,
ready to start at a second’s notice. As soon as Bleriot fell assistance
was rushed to him and he was quickly in the nurse’s hands. His injuries,
considering that he had fallen sixty feet, proved slight, but his nervous
system received a terrible shock. When he appeared at lunch on the stand
his left hand was bandaged and he walked with a slight limp. He was
heartily cheered.
In an hour’s time after news of the earthquake in Provence had reached
it, the Marseilles Committee of the Association of French Women of the
Red Cross had ready a fully equipped hospital with its personnel, which
was established at Rognes. In speaking of this work one of the Marseilles
papers said: “The promptitude of this mobilization proves to us the value
of the Red Cross and the necessity for its practical instructions.”
The French War Department has conferred the gold medal of honor upon
Mademoiselle Berthe Clavery, a Red Cross nurse, who, after many months
of most devoted service in Morocco, nearly lost her life through typhoid
fever contracted while on this patriotic duty.
GERMANY.
By postal regulation all contributions for the Central Committee of the
German Red Cross, addressed to that Committee in care of its official
bank, can be sent free.
The society reports up to date that contributions for the flood sufferers
in Germany amount to $46,185.
GREAT BRITAIN.
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