The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-08-30
AMERICAN RED CROSS
is ACTIVE IN ENGLAND
Virtually All American Women
Living There Before War As
sist i'm Work. -

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London. Aug 29.-The work ofl
the American Red Cross in Great
Britain comprises more than 20 de-
partments. Virtually all of the sew
eral thousand American women who
were residents of Great Britain be-
fore the war. many of them, of
course, wives of Englishmen, are en-
gagged in Red Cross work of some
kind under departments of the Amer
lean Red Cross, and they have also
the assistance Of many Englishmen
whose American connections or for
mer residence on the other side Of
the Atlantic give them a peculiar
interest and affection for things
American.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid. widow of n
former distinguished American am
bassador to Great Britain, was the
pioneer in the work of the American
Red Cross in this country AS soon
as the United States came into the
war, Mrs. Reid and Ambassador and
Mrs. Walter Hines Page organized
the London chapter Of the American
Red Cross. Mrs. Reid remains head
of the London chapter and has salso
been appointed by the central or
ganization in Washington to the
post of deputy commissioners in Great
Britain.
Among the women attached to va
rious branches of the work are Mrs.
John Astor, Mrs. Curtis Brown, Mrss
Henry Chaplin. Mrs. Spencer Clay.
the countess Of Granard, Mrs Fred
erick Guest. viscountess Harcourt,
Lady Herbert. Mrs. Irwin Laughlin,
the duchess sof Marlborough. Mrs
Walter Hines Page, Mrs. Robert p.
Skinner, Mrs. Arthur Vincent, Mrs.
H. S. Waite and Lady Ward
The American Red Cross has pro-
vided number of hospitals in Great
Britain, some of them established
before America entered the war. for
the use Of British wounded. others
established since that time for the
accommodation OF both British and
Americans.
One of the finest OF these Ameri-
can hospitals is the Mossley Hill hos
pital at Liverpool. which is stated
by American army doctors and
nurses under Major Ude j. VILE.
formerly professor of surgery in the
University OF Michigan. Already
many American soldiers occupy it's
cheerful wards.
The largest American hospital in
Great Britain will be at Salisbury
Court, near Southampton, construct
ed on a fine old estate OF 1856 acres
overlooking Southampton. This will
be used solely for American wounded
from the northern sectors OF the
, western front II will have about
5000 beds.
An American hospital de elux in
London is the new naval hospital on
Park Lane, which occupies Aldford
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.
D., There are several other American
| hospitals in London, n hospital for
, officers, st. Katherine's Lodge ortho-
paedic hospital in Regent Park, and
American Red Cross hospital num-
her "a, in Kensington Palace Gar
dens given by Mr.. and Mrs. Ches-
ter Beatty of New York
AT Lingfeld. Surry, the American
Red Cross has opened a convalescent
/ home for American officers. with 81
capacity of 100 beds, this being
housed in the home of Mrs Spencer
/ Clay. daughter OF Viscount Astor.
An important branch of the organ
iZation's work is embraced under the
title Care Committee" which has
subcommittee Of American women
in all important cities and towns in
Great Britain. They visit the hos
pitfalls in their vicinities and are inn
mediately notified OF the arrival
there Of any American soldiers, sick
or wounded, whether they belong to