Britain Cares For Cossacks’ Horses
At Wednesday night's meeting of the S.P.C.A., the president (Mr. F. A. Farmer) stated that official reports showed that Russia's Avar horses are getting a steady flow of veterinary supplies and equipment from Britain’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The Society has already raised £15,000 towards the £40,000 needed to meet the requests made by the Soviet Government through the British Ambassador. To date the Soviet Army Veterinary Corps has received 1500 kilogrammes of drugs and dressings. Round about 1000 veterinary surgeons’ wallets complete with instruments and drugs have been despatched, and 1000 more are on the way. Field chests costing £lB apiece have gone out. and the latest batch of supplies included microtomes, syringes, and 17 field microscopes. The drugs sent are for dressing burns, removing tape-worms healing up wounds, and combating fever. ,
The Russian Army has an excellent system of dealing with its sick and •vounded horses, but its large supplies are being drained, and the Soviet Government have asked for five outfits for veterinary hospitals, which will include special veterinary tents and lighting apparatus, each casting £ 1000.
The Royal Society are getting the money for them.
In reply to a question by Miss Cook, the president said that no help of this kind had so far been sent from the society in New Zealand.
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Northern Advocate, 16 December 1942, Page 5
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