The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-08-14
VALIANT WORK OF
THE AMERICAN RED
CROSS IN EUROPE

of The Associated Press. 1.-The work
| of the American Red Cross in Great
Britain comprises more than twenty
departments. Virtually all of the sew
eraI thousand American women who
were residents of Great Britain be .
fore the war, many of them, of course,
wives of Englishmen, are engaged in
/: Red Cross work of some kind under
! departments OF the American Red
| Cross, and they have also the assist
ance of many Englishwomen whose
American connections or former resi-
dence on the other side of the Atlantic
give them a peculiar interest and af-
! lection for things American.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, widow of a
| former distinguished American am
bassador to Great Britain, was the
| pioneer In the work of the American
| Red eros IN this country. AS soon as
! the United States came into the war,
| Mrs. Reid and Ambassador and Mrs
Walter Hines Page organized the Lon
| don Chapter Of the American Red
Cross. Mrs. Reid remains head of the
| London Chapter and has also been ap-
pointed by the central organization in
| Washington to the post of deputy
commissioner in Great Britain.
Among the women attached to var
| ious branches of the work are Mrs
John Astor Mrs. Curtis Brown, Mrs.
| Henry Chaplin, Mrs. Spender Clay, the
| Countess of Granard, Mrs Frederick
Guest, Viscountess Harcourt, Lady
Herbert, Mrs. Irwin Laughlin, the
Duchess Of Marasorough, Mrs. Walter
Hines Page, Mrs. Robert P Skinner.
Mrs Arthur Vincent, Mrs H. S. White
and Lady Ward.
The American Red Cross has pro-
vided number of hospitals in Great
Britain. some of them established be.
fore America entered the war, for the
use of British wounded others estab-
lished since that time for the accom-
mediation of both British and Ameri-
cans.
One of the finest of these American
hospitals is the Mossley Hill Hospital.
at Liverpool, which is stated by
American army doctors and nurses
under Major Ude j. Vile formerly
professor of surgery in t>>e University
of Michigan. Already many Ameri-
can soldiers occupy it's cheerful wards.
The largest American hospital in
Great Britain will be that at Salisbury
Court. near Southampton, constructed
on fine old estate of 1876 acres over
looking Southampton This will be
used solely for American wounded
from the northern sectors of the west
ern front. 1t will have about 5000
beds.
An American hospital de luxe in
London is the new Naval Hospital on
Park Lane, which occupies AIdford
House, the home of Mrs Guest, wife
OF Captain Frederick Guest, NJ p,
who generously placed her home at the
disposal of the Red Cross
There are several other American
hos toll In r
Surrey the American Red Cross has
opened convalescent home for Amer
lean officers, with a capacity of 100
beds, this being housed in the home
OF Mrs. Spender Clay, daughter of Wis |
count Aston.
An important branch of the organi- |
zation's work is embraced under the |
title care committee" which has SUBJ |
committees of American women in all |
important cities and towns in Great |
Britain. They visit the hospitals in
their vicinities, and are Immediately |
notified of the arrival there of any
American soldiers. sick or wounded.
they belong to the American
army or to the British or Canadian |
forces. Every such soldier Is visited |
at least once a week and is supplied
with comforts of various kinds in
Guiding copies of the local newspa pers
of his home town, which may be three
to six thousand miles away More
than 500 women are included in this
care committee and it's sub-commit-
tees. In every rest camp, training
camp. aviation center or other point |
where American troops have been sta
toned or are about to be stationed.
the American Red Cross finds work
to be done. For this purpose a large
organization has been built UP, cover
ing the entire country
In every camp of American soldiers.
the Red Cross representatives are on
hand constantly to assist the army Of
ficials in their work. If a canteen is
needed or a recreation tent, or a hos
pital tent, the Red Cross is there to
supply it.