RED CROSS IN MIDDLE EAST
"We are very busy at present; every^ thing is going along splendidly." writes the New Zealand Red Cross representative in the Middle East; in a letter dated November 16, In October alone approximately 6700 visits were paw to patients in the hospitals in Cairo. Palestine, and elsewhere. It was stated that arrangements at the time of writ* ing were well in hand in connection with Christmas gifts for all hospital patient?, Spepl&l gift bags were being prepared, each to contain a wallet, soap, and soap container, metal mirror, razor blades, pweets, handkerchief, packet of cigarette tobaeoo and papers, matches, toothpaste, goeks, etc. Each bag wag to contain s pfinteji card, suitably worked, showing that the gift was sent from the people of New Zealand, with a Christmas greeting, and also hoping the recipient would poon be well ana strong again. A Red Cross mobile store has been very useful for taking comforts to forwara positions in the field end to casualty clearing stations.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1943, Page 4
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168RED CROSS IN MIDDLE EAST Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1943, Page 4
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