RED CROSS APPEAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 216, 14 August 1918, Page 2

RED CROSS APPEAL.

J Taj Intli year of war has dawned. (As tt’c sauggie becomes fiercer, the ivasi.a; y iis;.s grow longer and the ' need ot money for the great woik ■ ui earing t*.r tlie wounded becomes : ti o' e v* g.-nt. ; To many th usamls of those maini- ;<. <i ami < -. ..1 d om-s a lag upon Um | iiciu ' 1 bal’-ie, meic etiHit s a vision H.pieiiii.d, hiri’tij glowing against an I Inky iiuckgi\mi.d. 1 n.agjiiitioii 1 p.wiiL- ■ h-i 'iicm a c*os.s ■*! vivid led, iand in ' <>■ n.al;.-aii* 11 of all t'.‘..*.l >lll.ll symbol .-.* .ii.ii.- lor ■ oey aie coin I lorica ,i.;ui gl.cn Strenglu tv l’llUU>>* | i-iicu. iinsviy. ; ibic wounded on these far eft i bat tie fields are s < ndmg out a great i aj'’Cal u:i :.neoiisc,.ius aim voicej it*s- cry, iiut sc insisteii, and so ci I.ng dim it :**.-e.s ciear as a tianuii lean above the iiidcons tiin *..l biutit laud ma* lies to iiit* uttcimost pans } <>i *ne c.. .... it v0i.,,.s ..eiiuiiig urei 1 Vij ii..t t-o lime pi'.i* iim slimes .<1 (day. i.’>y vtitue < r their wounds they J plead ; at that Cross may be kept-l-o.igui-.y munnig la: them and foi j their coal<.*u -> n arms vdi.i from j i-iii.v to dav -'-.m tali and suiter , *■•■. :. ja.i . y im*■ < 11 .ti at those in-'e: s ifwy a's? w- ’'lieu and upheld ; -a-.-e uccii oy l.;c Lad'n.oee i m mat- iTor.s. I lo whom could they more jusUv i appeal than to us tiie dwellers in |Auir Zealand who are su.reiy j among the most favoured ft<»aple of ; the eart.ll to-day I n.ike those who' ; live near the war zone we lie down 'and rise up in safety. Nothing in- ; tenures with out business or oui 1 pleasure. No grim spectre of star- | vation stalks through our kind. \Vc iai*e safe, prosperous and comfortable : and cur soldiers are suffering and ! dying vaat we may remain so. j H we could stand among thn | wounded on the battle field and six ‘ | their agony, would we deny then. • the cup of cold water which their ' parched liyp crave. Would we decline to bind up their gaping wounds or wi.-hhold froxii them (tie words of pity and comfort which would ‘ help them to bear their pain ! No, : a thousand times no I Can we then refuse to give gene ' rously to an organisation which will I do all this for n cm on our behalf ': Money is the fuel which nourishes ' rhe flame of the Red Cross—without • it that, flame must flicker and burn low. ' People of Hawke’s Bay, lam try I ing to raise a substantial! sum ot. ■ Saturday for the wounded. I can- ' not do it without your assistance. i '.Vill you listen to the call that u 1 coming from those far off battle fields and, by giving freely, help; to ■ keep the splendour of that cross 1 undimmed. —Elizabeth Lush, Milton 'Grange, papier.