ch monetary equivalents can be ascertained.

A glance at our column of receipts shows a considerable variation in
rates of exchange, and also the selling price of British gold (most of
our drafts and cabled credits were in English sovereigns). We sold the
greater part of our gold at a rate exceeding 110, which is the
commercial rate in business transactions. In all credits received, the
values are of course given according to the rate on the day of sale.

Many of our accounts, receipts and vouchers are curiosities, as they are
in various languages, Arabic, Kourdish, Turkish, Armenian, Greek,
Italian, etc. They were interesting but at the same time exceedingly
perplexing to us, though our expert accountant found no difficulty with
any of them, and right here we desire to make special acknowledgment to
Mr. Künzel for his excellent but unpaid services.

In our column of expenses will be found an exceedingly rare Red Cross
item, namely, "Wages Account." All the native or local doctors and
apothecaries with one exception, had to be paid "contagious disease
rates," as they called it. The exception was Dr. Ira Harris, of Tripoli,
Syria, that brave and self-sacrificing American, whose great medical
ability and splendid surgical skill accomplished so much in curing the
sick in the terribly distressed cities of Marash and Zeitoun, with their
many surrounding villages. We are glad to make this public
acknowledgment in full appreciation of his heroic services. Besides the
doctors, there were interpreters and dragomen for the various
expeditions in the field to whom wages were paid. No adverse reflection
is designed in the making of this statement, as the conditions
surrounding life and service in that region of operation made such
remuneration an equitable necessity.

It is, we think, a well understood fact that the Red Cross officers
neither receive nor ask any remuneration for their services, but away
from our own country we did not find the splendid volunteer aids we have
had on former fields. But few could be found, and