Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-02
LARGE DELEGATIONS
TO RED CROSS MEET
All the Principal European
Countries Will Be Repre-
sented Here May I.

france Is sending a large delegation
representing the French Red Cross and
the French government to the ninth In
ternational Red Cross conference. which
will begin here May Z
The government is represented by the
surgeon general of the French navy and
by Lieut.. Commander Benoist day
The branch for the aid of the military
wounded will be represented by Gen.
Michal. Count Jacques de Pourtales
members of the central committee).
Nine. Panas, Countess Paul de Pour
tales of the ladies' central committee and
Viscountess Benoist day. The Asso
citation of French Ladies is represented
by Emile Thurneysson. member of the
executive committee, and DR.. Dedet. The
Union of the Women of France is rep
resented by Nine. Lardin de Musset and
Nine. Emile Wallet, members of the
executive committee. and Emile Charter,
assistant secretary general. The women
of the French Red Cross have sent over
two dolls, one dressed in the costume of
the French Red Cross nurse and the
other in the dress worn by the woman
who acts as an administrative officer of
the hospital.
For the first time the Chinese Red
Cross will have a representative. T.
Theodore Wong. The Brazilian govern
ment also for the first time will send
representatives. Capt. Surgeon Francisco
Antonio Rodrigues de SALES, jr., and
DomicfO da Cana, ambassador to the
United States. The representative from
Turkey, DIR. Bessim Humer Bey, will rep
resent the government and also the Red
Crescent Society, which is the aid So
ciety OF Turkey. The grand priory of the
Order of the Hospital of st. John of
Jerusalem In England will be represented
by Sir John Furley. c. B., and Col. Guy
Carleton Jones of Canada. The Teutonic
order will be represented by DR.. Johann
Steiner. and the Sovereign Order of
Malta will be represented by Count Clan
Giacomo Della Somaglia.
Contest in First Aid.
Under the leadership of four captains,
Miss Marian Oliver, Miss Alice Meyer,
Mrs Cary Langhorne and Miss Dora Clio
yer. number of young women who have
just completed a course in first aid treat
ment will participate in first aid exhibit
ton May II. The teams will compete
against each other for a prize and the
Red Cross medals, which will be given to
each member of the winning team.
DR.. NJ v. Silbermark, delegate from the
Austrian Red Cross, will give a special
Illustrated lecture May 10 on phases or
both peace and war activities of the Aus
trian Red Cross. This will be followed
by moving picture exhibition of first aid
work among the miners to illustrate the
work along that line done by the Amer
lean Red Cross.
Many cases sent by the Japanese Red
Cross for the Red Cross exhibition are be-
ing unpacked, and the exhibit installed.
The Japanese delegates to the conference
are in New York where entertainments
are being given in their honor. Among
the delegates are Baron Ozawa, vice pres
ident of the Japanese Red Cross Society
Countess Ogasawara, Nine. Nagasaki,
Maj. DR.. Yenji Inoue and several others.
The German Red Cross is sending a
| large exhibit. contained in some sixty
nine cases. This will illustrate both it's
war and its peace activities. The German
delegates are Gen. C.. Won Pfuel, prosi-
dent German Associations of the Led
Cross; Prof. Kimmle, surgeon major out
| of service, general secretary central COM
| mittee of the German Red Cross Mr..
Mosle, general consul, member of the CEN
trail committee; Prof. DR.. Pannwitz. sur
geon major out of service, member of the
central committee: Mr.. Bernheimer. men,
Der Of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society of
the German Red Cross.