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Show RED CROSS AIDS SUFFERERS. Twenty minutes after the the echoes of the explosion which shattered shat-tered the office of J. P. Morgan iu Wall street, New York city, had died away, seventy-five nurses and nearly half as many field directors of the American Red Cross were mobilized for emergency service, according to recent information from the scene. The Emergency Canteen Service, the Motor Corps and the truck division divi-sion flllled their niches in the confusion con-fusion with the same speed and precision preci-sion which characterized their war Bervice. The first group of Red Cross nurses who arrived at the Volunteer hospital hos-pital where most of the wounded were taken, was a complete surprise to the surgeon in charge, but they were Immediately assigned duties in caring for the ambulance loads of injured in-jured which filled the beds and corridors. corri-dors. Almost immediately, under the direction di-rection of the New York county chapter, chap-ter, truck loads of bandages, surgical dressings, first aid materials, hospital garments and supplies, were sent to ,the four hospitals caring for the vic-I vic-I tims of the explosion. Red Cross ambulances am-bulances driven by Motor Corps women wom-en carried the injured from the scene of the explosion to the hospitals. Enroll at the fourth Red Cross call, November 11-15, 1920. |