The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-07
Head Of Paris Firm Cables List Of
Things Required, to Chairman Of
War Council Of the
Red Cross.
FOR WORK IN FRANCE
Organization Will Have to Supply
Great Quantities of Materials
Of All Kinds During
the War.

In order to ascertain needs which
our Red Cross should undertake to
supply in France. Henry P. Dawson,
chairman Of the war council of the
Red Cross, cabled H. H Harjes, OF
the firm of Morgan, Harjes & Co.,
Paris, to confer with French author,
titles and advise by cable.
| Mr.. Dawson has made public a
cable he has received from Mr..
Harjes as follows:
| After fully comforting with minis
ter and army medical authorities,
| give below list of material most ur-
gently needed by them. The needs
are stated in the order Of urgency:
'Transport-In addition to French
and foreign ambulance transport
/ sections already now attached to the
army and which we hoped to replace,
they urgently require fifty new mo-
tor ambulance sections of % Ford
cars plus two White trucks each and
the men to drive them.
Five Sanitary Red Cross trains
and the corresponding staff of doc
tors and nurses. The cars for these
trains would be turned over to us by
the government and would transform
them in the manner desired within
say two months at total cost of ao-
proximately frs. 100000.
1.-TWO hundred trucks to replace
some of the complimentary surgical
trailers, details of which could be sent
later.
Three hundred two-wheeled horse
carriages for the transport Of wound
ed where motor ambulances cannot
be used. These carriages we could
secure here for you.
"One thousand, wheelbarrows with
rubber tires for carrying stretchers
in the clearing hospitals. These can
be secured also at cost of about
frs. $50 each
Two thousand tents with double
sides weighing about 200 kilos each
for the sheltering Of 20 to 80 wound
ed in clearing hospitals.
"One thousand tents of larger
model, also with double sides, capable
OF holding 12O beds.
Forty to one hundred thousand
cases of condensed milk.
Several thousand oxygen bottles,
specifications of which could be sent
later.
Drugs as follows:
10000 kilos quinine (hydrochlorate
or sulphate).
5000 kilos Cod Liver oil.
1000 kilos Gaiacol.
1000 kilos Peruvian.
$1,000 kilos Cade Oil.
1900 kilos B. Balsame Naphtol.
$1,000 kilos Salicycic acid.
5000 kilos Urethane (Ethyl Car
bonate).
1000 kilos Methyient Blue
Two hundred thousand pairs blan- |!
kets, meters, fifty by two.
t,;ytxy tor
cts. |
Thirty thousand pairs of WOODEN !
trousers.
-Four hundred thousand pairs of |
wooden socks.
'"Ten thousand sanitary slop pals. |
"One thousand pairs of surgical |
India rubber gloves.
Fifteen thousand meters of limo
leum.
Twenty thousand meters of Amer
lean oilcloth.
Twenty thousand meters water,
proofed cloth for protecting bedding.
Twenty thousand meters water
proof cloth for bandages.
Twenty thousand cocoanut mats. |
Thirty thousand sets enamelled
plates, mugs, spoons and forks.
"One hundred typewriters.
twenty thousand pairs or leather
Twenty thousand pairs of flannel
waistcoats.
"Personnel.-They would like, say
five thousand nurses, either male or
female. but not less than one thous-
and males and, If possible. five thous-
and men to act as stretcher bearers
and rough workers in the hospitals
Also up to say ten complete staffs
of doctors, assistants and nurses TO
be used as separate complete and
distinct units to run clearing hos
pitfalls in army zone or base hospitals