The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-13


about the society or how 1t started
Mary Frances Ellington gives all this
information in book called The Red
Cross in War" which has just been pub.
lished by the George H. Doran Com
pany. Some extracts from 1t on the
Red Cross organization are given here
with.
1t Is to the Geneva Convention of
1865. says the author. that the initial
idea of humane care OF the wounded on
the field should be lifted above HOSTILE
ties and that the sign of the Red Cross
should save man or woman. camp, ship.
wagon or train from the shell and bull
lets of the enemy In civilized warfare
II has always been respected. and the
few occasions when this honorable
agreement has not been observed in the
past have always drawn down the exc
crations of the neutral nations.
To Germany 1t has remained to fout
the solemn and binding understanding
and she has used the emblem of
mercy and pity to mask murderous
quick firing guns. knowing that Eng
lish, French. Belgian and Russian would
never suspect such treachery and would
fearlessly Apr Nch the flag or the
vehicles displs AZ IL.
Yet Germa' in 1870 owed much
very much pri.'sh ne'p orous"t ne,
uhuei '"a' a. "uen tne "iSt a"iui
stores came "oine ai.er "r"'elo'te anu
Heuah Oh 'he heeiec'ed "ouhued ana uS =
ing on 'lr neIu common huinanity ue-
n,'hu.u Una, So,netnhs s""u'' ne uohe'
ne iatc h"'u Wan'ase, ,"en oo,'
I-oNu hihuSdS' td"eu the Hrs' thEhsii
hed 'ross society INTO existence as the
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over t"oV'ooo ana thP ''Il'e ot WORKS
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one "l these pe'ns aIons tne hnins
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rourse us famous l'ea,oiiess riUuse d'
Nalser"er'h "htrc 'o'eH'e .N'Sh''n-
gaze h"u received Ger OWL u"l"'nS III
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enough hhu 'ne 'Iu"h ir''CeSS' '"e
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l" neI own '"u"''E ""eIc '"c ''oN'-
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