RELIEF IN EUROPE.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17126, 22 April 1921, Page 8

RELIEF IN EUROPE.

LEAGUE OF BED CBOSS SOCIETIES . (FBOM Ottfc OWN CORRESPONDENT.) March 11. The co-ordination of the numerous agencies,' whether,: national Bed Cross Societies or other, voluntary organisations at present engaged in arresting disease and -relieving distress throughout the war-stricken areas of Europe, has' recently been the subject of discussion among many of the prominent.interests concerned. An international authority of the kind required, working through its member societies, is found, in the ueague of Red Cross Societies, with headquarters at Geneva.-' This co-ordination of relief was one of the primary purposes for which, the League was founded, and it has accepted the responsibility, and the whole strength of the organisationwill be devoted to the successful fulfilment of. its duty. The League is in a position, to meet the cost of headquarters administration and of its investigators in the field "without any deduction from funds subscribed g for relief, and no charge for the service of investigation, and co-ordination, will be made against the funds of any other society or organisatum- working under agreement with the League. The national Red Cross Societies of the following countries have given their cordial endorsement of the proposed scheme: — Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chili, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Roumania, Spain, Sweden, and the United States.

Amongst the relief , agencies . which have already signified their' assent to the scheme are: —The Imperial War belief Fund Serbian Child Welfare Association of America, British Committee of the Russian Red Cross Fund in Great Britain, Lady Muriel Paget's Missions to Eastern Europe, Polish Red Cross Society in. Great Britain, and the*Bolgian Sub-Committee for Immediate neKef for Refugees of the Crimea.