URGENT APPEAL FOR FUNDS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 18, 14 October 1937, Page 5

URGENT APPEAL FOR FUNDS

-Presa Asaocfation.)

Red Cross* Assistance For China DESPERATE NEED

(By Teleerapb-

WELLINGTON, This Day. Following the receipt of a message from Geneva, an appeal signed by the president, Mrs T. H. Lowry, was issued on behalf of the New Zealand Bed Cross Society for assistance to enable it to meet the call by equipping surgeons and sending them for service in China and by supplying the Red Cross at Nanking with the surgical necessities so urgently needed there. "The Society," says "the appeal, "is confident that surgeons will be found to volunteer for such humane work. Arrangements will be made to send them out, if possible, in a joint unit with the Australian Red Cross surgeons. "The immediate need is for funds, Tho.usands will be needed to ni> efc the expeuses' cntailed. In an interview, Mrs Lowry said that the sending of surgeons to China must be financed, and as presidont of the Red Cross Society in New Zealend she called on all organisations, mayors and churches to aid in answering the call. The need was urgent. Winter was approaching in China, and it was necessary to act now. She said that the display of a 2/6 Red Cross etamp on each motor-car and at each school or on each ehopwindow was the best way of showing practical support. A conference was held yesterday between executive officers of the Order Of St. John, Mrs Lowry and Dr. GiJlies, of the Red Cross Society, and Mr E. L. de Gielgud, International Red Cross Secretary. It was deeided that the order and the society should take joint action in response to the international appeal. A meeting of botb organisations will be held to-mor-row. An urgent appeal reached the New Zealand Red Cross from the Interna tional Red Cross Committee yesterday asking that as quickly as possible surgeons and surgical instruments and accessories from New Zealand should be sent to Nanking. The lted Cross there is in desperate need of surgical belp.