Red Cross Appeals for War Relief

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 29, 1914

Red Cross Appeals for War Relief

ERNEST P. BICKNELL, national director of the American Red Cross, issued the following statement upon his return from Europe last week: “Let no man imagine that the American Red Cross can do too much or enough. Nurses and surgeons are needed more and more. Medical and hospital supplies are needed in such vast quantities that we can never hope to supply them. The deplorable truth is that over the vast stretch of country that has been laid waste by the appalling struggle, countless thousands of wounded men have been left helpless and dying. Many wounded, of course, have been gathered into trains by Red Cross surgeons and nurses and taken to hospitals in the larger cities. One by one the hospitals have been filled, the public and private buildings have been taken for hospitals, and still the wounded come in ever-increasing numbers. Still other thousands lie in the trenches and on the bleak battle fields, or crawl into the villages in such numbers that nothing can be done for them; and to these the end comes from thirst and exposure and uncared-for wounds.”