uary 1, 1915, rendered aid to 422,000 wounded. It maintains one hundred and eighteen bath-houses, in which, by August 1, 1915, lay 1,150,005 soldiers. On the south-west and the northwest fronts, the Municipal Union distributed 6,890,960 rations, and 523,000 suits of underwear. By August 1, 1915, the Municipal Union had distributed over two and a half millions suits of clothes, underwear, foot-wear, etc., valued at about seven and a half million roubles.
The Zemstvo Union produced 1,845,000 shirts, 195,000 anti-fumes masks, etc. For the south-west front alone, the Union ordered 1,650,000 pairs of shoes and over three million pairs of boots; at the present time it supplies the army with over 150,000 pairs a month.
Moreover, the united committee of the two organizations provides food for four hundred thousand laborers employed at the front. This united committee is gradually extending its work, and forms the real basis for expecting the two organizations to be soon merged into one.
In This Hour
By Theodore Sologub.
Translated by P. Leonov.
In this hour, when mighty thunder
Rumbles through the darkened sky;
In this hour, when all our dwellings
Shaken, trembling, craven lie;
In his hour, when anxious worries
With full love and hope are met,
In this hour, when e'en the bravest
Stand with brows so grimly set;
In this hour, strive higher, higher,
Higher, proud and haughty hearts:
Only he can be the victor,
Who from hope and faith ne'er parts,
Only he who trusts so blindly,
Even when all hopes is flown,
Only he who at his Mother
Doth not cast reproach's stone.
