Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-18
RED CROSS HAS
$500 WORKERS
NOW IN FRANCE nc!
Conducting 20 First-class
Hospitals and 76 Dis
i. pensaries.
Physicians Care for More
Than 40, 900 Children Re
turning to France.

. Paris. March .1S.--1n view Of the
cali which the American. Red Cross
intends to send out shortly for a
further subscription fund of $780,
100000. it might be well to give a
few facts as to what has already been
accomplished in France by the or
g%anization.
Officers and men in Red Cross uni-
form are seer driving automobiles
and camions in all sections on the
American front, and it's ambulances
are attached to French hospitals as
well as. American base hospitals,
which contain from 1900 to 5000
patients. En-.
There has been during the last few
months some criticism in Paris that
Red Cross funds were being spent ex-
travagantly by wealthy American wo-
men who went around to the big de-
partment stores ordering goods valued
at thousands of francs. while the
warehouses belonging to the associ-
alton were packed with goods.
Officials of the Red Cross, when
that the organization had been equip-
ped to meet the demand of the
American army, and the stores of all
kinds held in warehouses were "a re-
serves or used in emergency. This
had already proved to be most valu-
able for the army, and when shipping
had been delayed the Re- Cross sup
piled the troops with medical stores,
provisions. beds, ETC., when they.
we're badly needed. Camions are kept
at the depots ready to start for the
front at a few minutes notice.
Has $500 Workers.
The following statement was given
out at the headquarters of the Ameri-
can Red Cross in this city concerning
the work of the organization:
The work of the American Red
Cross in France. which is supported
by more thar $4,000, 900 Americans
who have contributed a voluntary
fund exceeding to date 50%0,000,000
francs. is carried on by a staff OF
nearly $500 workers. whose , labors
ment of the French republic.
For the distribution of supplies to
give aid and comfort to the soldiers
Of the allied nations and their fami-
lies. to help suffering non-combatants
and refugees. and to assist in re-
making home places in h war
devastated areas. tw%enty-nine ware
houses are required. They handle an
average Of 5000 tons Of supplies per
month through a service Of 500 am
balances. automobiles and camions.
"The American Red Cross operates
twenty hospitals of the first class. as
sists in the operation Of Ave others.
and conducts seventy-six d%ispensaries
in behalf OF the civil population Of
France. For those stricken with tu-
herculosis. it co-operates in the con-
duct of three sanitariums and aids in
the provision Of comfort equipment Of
tuberculosis barracks in and about
Paris. which has brought about an
, Increase Of 235 per cent in attendance
at these barracks since September,
1917.
cts supply service includes two
factories for the manufacture of hos
pital splints and artificial limbs in ac-
cordance! with the latest designs APP
proved by surgical science. and two
surgical dressing establishments. One
ct these alone has a capacity of 1884,
10 dressings per week. These dress
ings are forwarded to 1895 French
and sixteen American hospitals. But
the general hospital supply service
provides equipment for nearly 1000
hospitals in France. and. in addition,
has fitted a hospital train with the
most modern apparatus for the use of
The French army. u ~
Relief in Devastated Areas.
I'm order to insure the immediate