RED CROSS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 101, 26 October 1934, Page 9

RED CROSS

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

No fcivur than 50 countries arc repreKcntiid at tho International Red Cross Conference now boing lield at Tokio, Japan. Twenty-one British Empire delegates arc present. It was mentioned in n. recent cable message that tlu. Emperor and Empress of Japan had for tho first lime given an audience to a woman, and that the New Zealand delegates were also given an audience and reception. This fact, it is stated, shows the great value which the Japanese people place upon the services of the society. All the nursing in hospitals in Japan is done by Red Cross nurses. The present world membership of the Cross is 24,000,000, including 14,000.000 juniors. The Japanese membership minire yts O p will be considered from the International Red Cross Committee (Geneva); League of Ked Cross Societies (Pans); nnd b a BUnuMry o f general reports of nationai Red Cross societies. Many imP^ant phases "^ « c \^ of national Bocieties and the j n t enla tional Red Cross bodies in the wor kiug of tho union, (b) position regarding the ratification of Hie Geneva Convention of 1029 and tho linrmonisins of national legislation with the convention; (c) draft convention regarding the portion . oi - ans on onenu-^mto,, to rito, v !,;„„' of ui ; a logy of tho Ooneva Cnuvonlion and of the prisoners of War (.'ode in 'anitfd conflicts nnaficiimpniiiod by declnra-

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