BRITISH RED CROSS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 250, 10 July 1918, Page 5

BRITISH RED CROSS

SPLENDID RESULTS OF APPEALS ; POSITION OF THE FUND tit • London, J v ]y 8. the subscriptions to the British Bed Cross exceed eleven millions.-Aus.-N Z Uiulo Assn. •ASP 0 * 1 ! U1 : y c ?. r ended October 1 T i't, J}° '* oinl; tommiUec of Iho n/ 'ii f'T So ? c( r Ulul the Order of St. John of Jerusalem lurnishes somo . lntoiestmg particulars as to the splen- ; did work tiiidorl-akeii by the committeo ! and the necessity for continued monetary ' i assignee from a 1 parts of the Empire : At the present time, when an appeal « being made for funds for the E.-cnch * Red Cross and the annual.'"ODr Dav" I on or t 3s being inaugurated l>v 11m copper trail" and other schemes, the te"T- " "' iU '* readv 'th'inExpenditure for Last Three Years, «£ 'J®}?. 1,691,231 "JS 1,815,353 191( 3,1172,356 ! ' (i Total -07,178,940 ,' the report says: "No one can realise, ■as the I'inanee Committee does, the im- 1 rnense responsibility which is involved 1 «i the dual work of raising 6tich a revenue from tho voluntary donations of (ho public, and of controlling and keepping within bounds an expenditure wliieli lias risen to such dimensions and which spreads itself over every theatre • of the war." During the year under review the following grants wero made to the various commissions conducting the Red. Crosa work in the field:— ■ - £ 1 France and Belgium 501,4.% ' Egypt and Malta ... '269,184 j Mesopotamia 169,774 ■; Salonika 105,792 j Rumania 74jflsc i Italy .15,037 * j East Africa 20,599 ' Russia 10,279 ' j Serbia and Montenegro 5,211 ! Other sections 10,993 '£1,202,331 ; Add grants to central : prisoners of war ... 776,957 j Total £1,879,348 " '.! These are grants in money alone ann ! aro exclusive of tlio cost and upkeep ' incurred in connection with stops, ' transport! of wounded, niolor-boals, lios- ,! pilals, hospital ships, and trains, and : general outlay incidental to tho work ; of tho committeo amounting approxi- ; mately to two millions for the yea-i 1 , I and, assuming that at least half of this j stun is oxpeuded in tho war area, it would l give, a total expenditure of about j three millions in Allied countries. ' j Tho total income of tho committee for the year was .£3,474,563, and- tho total j funds available at tho end of the year •; amounted to <£2,205,159, including a con.lingency reserve of .£94,400. Tho results ] of "Our Day" appeal for last year were not available at dato of report; but a ; supplementary statement issued in Feb- j ruary last gives the sum of .£2,148,792 as the total result of _ that effort, of which tho overseas dominions and neutral countries contributed -£1,461,532. Even with this limgnifiiont response it i will bo seen that the committeo las a j very narrow margin of availablo funds '< to meet tho needs of the heavy casual- ! ties now being experienced. t Tho average weekly incomo of tho i Joint Committee during tlio year was • .£66,818 and tho average weekly expen- I dituro <£70,622, or a weekly deficit of , J23804. . i