PRISONERS OF WAR

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15767, 7 December 1916, Page 3

PRISONERS OF WAR

MISS TODHUNTER'S GOOD AYORK. J At the meeting of the. Red Cross Society yesterday, Aliss Todhunter, ! secretary of the Red Cross En- j quiry Bureau, gave a most in- j teresting report on the operations of! her bureau. She stated that arrange- j men ts.had been- made for the sending; of money to Switzerland for the pur- j chase of food and clothing lor the pri- j Miners of war. On-November 7th, .£2O! wa» forwarded to the Croix Rouge in i Geneva, with directions that the money '. be spent on friendly prisoners—prefer- . ably New Zealanders. On November', 24th, i' 7 10s was forwarded for nearest relatives for the purchase of food and clothing for these especial cases. On December oth. £S Ids was forwarded — £1 Os of which -was for two special cases, and the remainder for friendless prisoners. The secretary had -written to Airs Julian Grande, o| Berne, asking her, as a New Zcalander and a resident of ueniie, through which town all the food and clothing is being sent, if possible, to look after the interests of her fellow-countrymen who were prisoners of war by seeing if they were neglected _in any way. The bureau had received much valuable information from the British Red Cross in London relative to the missing and wounded, and a great many fresh cases had been j entered on tho books during the last I montlv