THE RED CROSS
GENEVA CONGRESS CALL TO ASSIST HELPLESS PEOPLES. By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright Australian "and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, March 10. The first General Council of tho League of the Red Cross Society lias concluded at Geneva. It was attended by delegates from twenty-seven countries. At the first conference the chairman stated that the object was to develop a plan for calling upon the whole world, through the Red Cross Societies, to co-operate for the immediate relief of the millions of people who were powerless to help themselves. Sir David Henderson, Director-Gen-eral of the League, gave an account of the League’s activities since its foundations. It emphasised that it had relieved the needs of Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, by supplying largo quantities of medicines, food, and clothes,’ and combating a serious outbreak of typhus. At its final meeting the League decided to take action regarding the repatriation of war prisoners still in Siberia and Russia.
Contributions in aid of • 'the Polish relief scheme included a gift valued at £70,000 from Australia.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10537, 13 March 1920, Page 7
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