The Red Cross : in peace and war . RELIEF WORK IN CUBA. 641 on the subject, and offer their conscientious opinion that the presentstate of affairs in vSantiago de Cuba fully justified the departure of theRed Cross to districts where its presence was much more urgentlyrequired. In conclusion, your committee beg to express their gratitude for theconfidence which you have so kindly bestowed on them, and to deploretha. owing to sickness and extreme press of work, they have not beenable so fully to assist in your benevolent undertaking as would havebeen their ardent desire. (Signed) Robert Mason, H


The Red Cross : in peace and war . RELIEF WORK IN CUBA. 641 on the subject, and offer their conscientious opinion that the presentstate of affairs in vSantiago de Cuba fully justified the departure of theRed Cross to districts where its presence was much more urgentlyrequired. In conclusion, your committee beg to express their gratitude for theconfidence which you have so kindly bestowed on them, and to deploretha. owing to sickness and extreme press of work, they have not beenable so fully to assist in your benevolent undertaking as would havebeen their ardent desire. (Signed) Robert Mason, H. MiCHAELSEN, Wm. Ramsden. Santiago de Cuba. 642 THE RED CROSS. REPORT OF E. WINFIELD EGAN, M. D. When the Red Cross was asked by the Department of State, andthe Central Cuban Relief Committee, to go to Cuba in charge of therelief work among the reconcentrados, the members of Miss Bar-tons personal staff, who had worked on other fields, were called to jointhe expedition. On the twentieth of February, while in my office inBoston, a


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