THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATE "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE." HELENSVILLE. THURSDAY, APRIL 12,1917. THE RED CROSS.

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THE KAIPARA AND WAITEMATA ECHO WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATE "THE KAIPARA ADVERTISER & WAITEMATA CHRONICLE." HELENSVILLE. THURSDAY, APRIL 12,1917. THE RED CROSS.

THE Red Cross is the bestmanaged institution of the war. It is the most effective in every way, the most successful from the treatment of the wounded to the discovery of the fate of the missing, and it costs less for administration than anything in any service. For example, the Red Cross expended in the second year of the war just over three millions of money, and the cost was below sevenpence in the pound. It was not always so. At the battle of the Marne, for instance, it did not possess a single motor ambulance. It actually moved its wounded in the ancient manner of the Napoleonic wars. There was an outcry, of course. The outcry brought help, in cash and in kind of which motor ambulances and travelling soup kitchens were the outstanding glories. It brought more, It hrpug-ht perfection of system into the. administration of this magnificent service. Lord Korthcliffe was largely responsible fop |hat, He^ leaped into the lead, used his wonderful power of organisation, his persuasive strength-—equal to that of Cecil Rhodes —his judgment of men, which is one of his best points —and established, the most wonderful organisation in the world, The object is the worthiest: the alleviation of the sufferings of the wounded, their (jure and tfyeir comfort. They deaeryp tbg bjgfgesfc and orpinptest support. It ia fop the wounded who have fought for freedom, for Empire, for righteousness in the world, for the_ punishment of barbarous savagery and the suppression of the most hideous gg^rggsion in the history of manjpnck