LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS SHIP.
[To THE ED1708 OW THJI " SPECIATOE,,n
SIR,—Yours readers may be interested to know of the arrival last week of the American hospital ship ' Red Cross' at Falmouth. The ' Red Cross' has landed six surgeons and twenty-six trained nurses for work in England, as well as fifty tons of medical supplies. The personnel comprises two units. One, according to present arrangements, is to be stationed at the American Women's Hospital at Paignton, and the other will go to the military hospital at Netley. The Red Cross' has sailed from Falmouth for Bordeaux, where surgeons, nurses, and supplies will be landed for the French. Afterwards the vessel carries other surgeons and nurses to Rotterdam. There is now in England, awaiting transporta- tion arrangements, still another unit bound for Russia. The Red Cross' has been sent out by the American National Red Cross, of which the President of the United States is the head.
[It affords us special pleasure to put on record this timely as well as generous help in women, men, and stores. It is most valuable in itself. It is ten times as -valuable owing to its source of origin. British wounded tended by American doctors and nurses will feel once more that blood is thicker than water, for it was as an introduction to helping our wounded under fire that those ever-memorable words were repeated by an American naval Captain.—En. Spectator.]
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