The Red Cross : in peace and war . A TUVKIiH -WEDDING PROCESSION IN ARABKIJU. 350 THl RED CROSS, MEDICAL REPORT. Dr. Ira Harris, resident American physician at Tripoli, Syria, agentleman of high attainments, Christian character, scholarship andservice, who directs a large private hospital and practice of his own,honored the Red Cross and contributed largely to the beneficence ofhis and our own peoples efforts to relieve and rebuild the people ofAsia Minor, by accepting a commission to command an expedition forthe relief of the fever-stricken thousands, residents and refugees,crowded into the c
The Red Cross : in peace and war . A TUVKIiH -WEDDING PROCESSION IN ARABKIJU. 350 THl RED CROSS, MEDICAL REPORT. Dr. Ira Harris, resident American physician at Tripoli, Syria, agentleman of high attainments, Christian character, scholarship andservice, who directs a large private hospital and practice of his own,honored the Red Cross and contributed largely to the beneficence ofhis and our own peoples efforts to relieve and rebuild the people ofAsia Minor, by accepting a commission to command an expedition forthe relief of the fever-stricken thousands, residents and refugees,crowded into the cities of Marash and Zeitoun. The reports receivedfrom consuls and missionaries presented a terrible condition of affairs,threatening the lives of thousands by pestilence and hunger, morerapidly than the Circassian knife and the Kourdish spear and bullet haddone Our own special agents were all in charge of difficult and dis-tant fields, and none could be spared to this section. After variousdisappointments, aided by the Rev. Dr. Post atBeyrout, Dr. Ira Harriswas reached and
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