RED CROSS LEAGUE
WORLD-WIDE CO-OPERATIVE PLAN
BELIEF FOR HELPLESS PEOPLE
London, March 10. • The first General Council of the League of"tho-Red Cross Society hag concluded at' Genev- -It'was, attended by delegates from twenty-seven. countries.' At the'first conference the chairman stated that the object was to develop a plan for calling/upon the whole world,' through the "Red Cross societies, to -enoperate for the immediate relief of the millions- of people who were powcrleeS to help themselves. 1 ■ ' Sir David Henderson, Director-Gen-eral of-the league, gave an account of the league's activities since its foundation. It'emphasised that it had relieved the needs of Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, by: supplying, large quantities ot medi l cines, food, and clothes,' and combating a serious outbreak' of typhus: At'its final meeting the league, decided totake action regarding the repatriation of war prisoner? .'still,in ■ Siberia and Russia. Contributions'-in -aid of the Polish relief scheme included a gift valued at .£70,000 from -Australia.—lmperial- News Service.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 144, 13 March 1920, Page 7
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156RED CROSS LEAGUE Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 144, 13 March 1920, Page 7
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