. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . ceeded in checking the outbreak of epi-demic diseases over a wide area. The institutions, managed by the RedCross at home, chiefiy consist of Re-serve Hospitals, Convalescents Homes,Stations for soldiers who have becomeill, etc. Under the agreement with theWar Office the Red Cross was supposedto provide beds for 518 officers and16,000 men, but the total number ofbeds available at present amounts to85,000, five times as many as wereasked for. These institutions are sup-ported, of course, not by the Red CrossSociety alone, but also by corpo
. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . ceeded in checking the outbreak of epi-demic diseases over a wide area. The institutions, managed by the RedCross at home, chiefiy consist of Re-serve Hospitals, Convalescents Homes,Stations for soldiers who have becomeill, etc. Under the agreement with theWar Office the Red Cross was supposedto provide beds for 518 officers and16,000 men, but the total number ofbeds available at present amounts to85,000, five times as many as wereasked for. These institutions are sup-ported, of course, not by the Red CrossSociety alone, but also by corporations,societies, committees, etc., of any de-scription, as also by individual contri-butions. The Society has been anxious to in-crease the number of nurses for thewounded by voluntary helpers, womenand girls who had to go through a fewweeks training. This arrangement isfound to work satisfactorily In transport of wounded soldiers Inthe different towns and cities has alsobeen taken over by the Red Cross So- THE ALLIANCE AND THEIR ALLIES. ciety, which for these purposes hasenlisted the different fire brigades; 700units in all, with a total of 17,000members. Other branches of the Red Crosswork are concerned with providing re-freshment to soldiers at the railwaystations and on the roads; with the pro-vision of underclothing and otherthings found suitable for the comfortof the men; with information ofiBcesfor the relatives of soldiers; and with COUSIN TO BUST BERTHA (By Courtesy of the Chicago Abendpost) the censoring of letters written homeby the prisoners of war in half a dozenmore or less known languages. The Red Cross has also undertakento get information about the Austro-Hungarian military and civil prisonersof war in hostile countries and has re-cently been obliged to protest to theInternational Committee in Genevaagainst the cruel and barbarous treat-ment of Austro-Hungarian civil prison-ers in Russia. All this extensive work could nothave been done, of course,
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