Photograph by an Australian Aviator, from C. W. Whitehair 



A VIEW OF THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM FROM THE SKY 



The conspicuous area in the middle of this airplane photograph is the "Place of the 

 Temple," in the center of which is the glittering Mosque of Omar, one of the richest temples 

 in the world. Beyond is the elevation known as the Mount of Olives, crowned by the Kaiserin 

 Augusta Victoria Hospice, in which the German Government installed a powerful wireless 

 outfit. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre can be distinguished near the center of the city. 

 The Garden of Gethsemane lies between the Mosque of Omar and the Mount of Olives (see 

 also pages 325-344). 



THE HEALER OF HUMANITY'S WOUNDS 



IN PEACE as in war, there is no 

 organization more necessary for the 

 alleviation of suffering than the Amer- 

 ican Red Cross, some of whose distinctive 

 activities are most effectively portrayed 

 in the exclusive photographs on pages 

 309-324. Now and ever the hearts of 

 countless millions of the soldiers of every 

 land who have survived the awful conflict 

 of the War for Eternal Peace glow with 

 gratitude when the Red Cross is brought 

 to mind ; their children and their chil- 

 dren's children will remember it with the 

 exact antithesis of the feeling inspired 

 by thoughts of war. 



Great as the Red Cross was in war, yet 

 greater is it in peace, and its usefulness 

 is now supreme in the months and years 

 of restitution, rehabilitation, and recon- 



struction in the countries of our staunch 

 friends, who so bravely bore the brunt of 

 the brutal thrust which threatened the 

 safety of the world and who held at bay 

 the militaristic machine of the last of the 

 Huns until the armies of democracy could 

 gird up their loins and destroy it. 



The American Red Cross needs now the 

 support of every American more than ever 

 before. To help in this work of relieving 

 civilian suffering in devastated France 

 and Belgium is the paramount privilege 

 of every man, woman, and child in the 

 United States. The widows, aged parents, 

 and fatherless children of the heroes who 

 died to stem the tide of autocratic ad- 

 vance require your assistance, through 

 the Red Cross, in regaining their equilib- 

 rium to face the problems of the future. 



