In a letter lately received from Baron Ozawa, Vice-President of the
Japanese Red Cross, he says:
“Ever since my return to Japan, our institute has been trying to enlarge
its scope by establishing the Red Cross Hospitals in the Empire, which
today number ten altogether. In fact, my idea is to encourage our
members, numbering to this date over 1,400,000, to render their service
in time of peace for all kinds of charity work.”
During the late war the Russian Red Cross dispensed nearly seventeen
million dollars and at the end was left with a war reserve fund of some
six million dollars. The Society provided hospital ships and trains,
reserve and field hospital besides a large personnel and great quantities
of supplies.