DARTMOUTH MEN IN PALESTINE RED CROSS EXPEDITION

Dr. Jesse K. Harden '95, Prof. Arthur A. Bacon '97, Dr. C. E. Clark '98, and Prof. J. A. Brown '02, are members of the Palestine expedition which the American Red Cross has sent abroad for civilian relief to Jerusalem. They will be fifteen months doing the work, and a great deal in the future development of the people of Palestine depends on the thoroughness of the work which this expedition does.

The Commission as contemplated will consist of several commissioners, of which Dr. John H. Finley from New York is the chairman. He will have associated with him several prominent men representing various interests and religions. This Commission will have its headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. They will study conditions and advise the Red Cross how they can best help in the work of aiding the population of Palestine and the surrounding countries.

The working medical attachment of this Commission sailed some weeks ago by the way of Cape Town and consisted of approximately sixty persons. This group, headed by Dr. E. St. John Ward, Professor of Surgery at Beirut College, contains doctors, sanitarians, pathologists, bacteriologists, engineers, land a considerable number of lay personnel. They plan to go directly to Jerusalem and work behind the British lines, taking care of the civilian population with the intention of directing the relief of bodily suffering by the establishment of hospitals and infirmaries and preventive measures in the way of water supply and prophylactic vaccination, et cetera. This, in general, is the scheme and the extension of the work will be taken up when reports are received from Dr. Ward and Dr. Finley.

This work is undertaken by the Red Cross in close co-operation with the British Government, the British Society for Armenian and Syrian Relief and also the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief.

Dr. Marden and Dr. Clark have been engaged in medical missionary work in Turkey, Professor Bacon is a member of the faculty of Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., and Professor Brown is on the staff of the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut, Syria.