Show RED CROSS ASKS FOB DONATIONS funds being collected for relief of sufferers in the balkans president dent W if taft who is alpo alo president prem dent of the american red crois and the members of the international relief boar board dhave bave issue issued nn an appeal for to be devoted to the tion of conditions in the balkan war ai M H walker salt lake city who 19 tre treasurer aurer of the utah red cros croaa will receive contributions contribution which he will transmit to the emercian red cross treasurer surer at washington it is 13 set forth ferth in the appeal that funda will be used impartially in behil of either of the combatants unless otherwise specified person making donation 6 to the fund ma elect the participants in the struggle for whose relief the money is to he be used and these desires will be ba strictly observed the appeal in full follows it is difficult to bring home to the public in this c cuntro untra the appalling suffering involved in a winter war in the balkans communization iq 11 difficult the cold is intense and even rudimentary transportation is isa a matter 0 of f extreme difficult moreover the hulting fiLli ting in this war is likely to be of an especially ditter and severe character while on the other hand band the medical organization available la is quite inadequate to cope with the large numbers of wounded reports have been greeene rec eiel 1 both from our diplomatic in burkly the balkan states artates arid and greece ard iron from the red cros societies of the th desperate conditions of the thousands of sick and wounded ard the inadequate mcdail service tl it ep reports have come ippi appeals ils to lu tri arit acl rc i arcs fur aid british red cros Cr osand and those these of continental europe are b anding out medical detachments of doctors and nurses and hospital supplies in ili order to mitigate in some measure the terrible suffering entailed by such a winter campaign becaj becire e of the diR distance tance the american red criss cr s will not sent send expeditions of nf trained per personnel kunnel but it earnestly appeals to the genero generosity iti of our to nid lid the sick ind wounded Rol soldiers ol diera diers of all the countries involved though in ili armistice may be declared the great r ot or sick and wounded be cared for during a number of weeke ind and the troops mut must remain under arms in the held for months aurini the severe winter neither with all the suffering ind sickness this chii will entail the ser services icea of the american red pot cross will be rendered impartial ij y to nil all the combatants concerned but it is of course open tc any sub st riber to designate a donation for the tha special assistance ash istance of one or the other of the belligerent partie instructions to that effect will be strictly observed |