Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-07 | Page 57 | Italian Army to be Aided by Red Cross

Ill ARMY TO BE ' AIDED BYRED CROSS American Commission Goes to Rome to Ascertain Just What Is Needed. By ERNEST P. ORB., Intern-atiorral'TSrew3 Service Staff Correspondent. PARIS, Oct. 6. The American Red Cross commission to Italy, which re cently arrived in Paris, has left for Rome to begin an exhaustive study of the Italian Ital-ian situation with the view of determining deter-mining the scope of the active relief work which the Red Cross is to undertake under-take in conjunction with the Italian army. Headed by Chairman George F. Baiter, Jr., vice president of the First National bank of New York,' the committee is thoroughly equipped in personnel to determine de-termine the needs In Italy and ia ready to give immediate relief where it may be found necessary. One of the chief objects of the journey is to consider the establishment of base hospitals and ambulance am-bulance units for the prompt handling and treatment of the ill or wounded. The commission also intends to visit numerous seaports and determine the advisability ad-visability of establishing relief stations for the care of those who 'suffer from the torpedoing or shelling of Mediterranean Mediterra-nean and Adriatic shipping. The Italian government, both through its ambassadors In Paris and Washington, Washing-ton, has signified its hearty approval of the commission and its willingness and desire to aid it in every possible manner, man-ner, and has made all arrangements for the committee's journeying through Italy. In addition to Mr. Baker, the commission commis-sion consists of Major John R. Morron, president of the Atlas Portland Cement company, of New York; Major Victor G. Heiser, expert sanitarian, a graduate of the Jefferson Medical college of Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, who was for ten years chief quarantine officer and director of health for the Philippines, and one of the lead ing authorities on public health questions; ques-tions; Major Thomas W. Huntington of San Francisco, president of the American Surgical association, a graduate of the Harvard University of Medicine, and professor pro-fessor of surgery emeritus of the University Uni-versity of California at Berkeley, and Major Nicholas F. Brady, a New York business man, identified with light, power and heat companies.