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THE RED CROSS.

(From the New York Herald.) The organisation of the Red Cross societies in this city for the purpose of helping to alleviate the horrors of the Eusso-Turkish war is a movement which cannot fail to commend itself to all humane people. The operations of the United States Sanitary Commission during nnr lata war taught a valuable lessson to the nations of Europe, for they have since adopted our Christian-like system of nursing the sick and wounded during their numerous campaigns. With a happy foresight the Geneva Cross Convention made that system universal throughout Europe. So it now matters not whether France tights Germany, or Russia makes war on Turkey, we find the nations at peace aiding the combatants to nurse their sick and wounded soldiers in the Held. The Swiss city of Geneva will hereafter hn famous as the seat of two international conventions or conferences. The first was one of arbitration between two great nations--England and America—to decide vexed international questions and so avoid an expensive and tedious war. The other resulted iu the adoption of a code binding on all European nations, giving the wearers of the Red Cross a degree of immunity from the dangers of active hostilities that greatly increases their usefulness and robs war of many piinful features. The members of the Red Cross order are only subject to one restriction. They cannot pass at will from one army to its opponent, and in case of capture they are at once permitted to return to their special field of duty. Iu the present war the Cross and the Crescent is worn, and on each aide of the line we find tile same neutral nations represented. Following the example set by the American residents in Paris during the siege, these Red Cross societies provide their own ambulances, surgeons, nurses, and medical supplies, the natural result being a sensible mitigation of the sufferings attending the movement ami clash of belligerent bodies of troops.

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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5237, 5 January 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

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THE RED CROSS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5237, 5 January 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE RED CROSS. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5237, 5 January 1878, Page 1 (Supplement)

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