Red Crescent

More Red Cross and Red Crescent volunteers have been killed in this conflict than in any other since records have been kept.

The head of Iran's Red Crescent rescue corps, Mahmoud Mozafar, said communications to the stricken areas have been cut.

The Syrian Arab Red Crescent recently estimated that 2.5 million people have been displaced within the country.

Thus Turkey has substituted a red crescent, and Persia a red sun for the cross.

Thus Turkey reserved the right to use a red crescent, and Persia to use a red sun.

"Yes—the Red Crescent," he stammered once more; then the death-throes closed his lips—one short struggle, and he was a corpse.

The Red Crescent floats over the buildings within the Seraglio enclosure to-day.

In its place we find a red crescent well down on the neck, and partially hidden by the short gray feathers about it.