The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1917-09-13

equipment will be supplied by the
French army.
Red Cross Transportation Service
A Red Cross transportation service
through the cooperation of French.
British and Italian governments. the
United States Shipping board and the
leading steamship and railroad COM
panies has been established to handle
the vast quantities of medical and re
lief supplies now being shipped al
most daily to France. Belgium, Ser
bia, Russia and other belligerent
countries.
The Red Cross will have cargo
space on every steamer chartered by
the United States Shipping board.
Army transports will also carry Red
Cross supplies.
The French railroads are over
taxed, and their facilities must be
avalible for the military needs of the
army. The Red Cross has according
ingly determined to develop its own
motor transport service. This has
called for an original investment OF
considerable size. but it was funda-
mental necessary and will make IL
possible for Red Cross service 10 be
flexible and elastic to an immense
important degree.
The first unit of trucks has been
forwarded.
Base hospitals
In advance of the fighting forces
the United States sent to the Euro
pean battlefelds six base hospitals
organized during the last year by the
Red Cross-the first United States
army organization sent to Europe.
These were sent at the request of the
British commission.
More than a dozen base hopsitals or
ganized by the American Red Cross
are now seeing active service in
France. and others are rapidly being
made ready for foreign service.
Each OF these base hospitals has a
STAFF of % physicians. two dentists.
So Red Cross nurses and $50 enlisted
men of the Army Medical corps. Be
fore war was declared. twenty-six of
these units had been formed and ~
at least $4,000 to equip base hos.
pital with beds, blankets. steriIizers,
operating-tables. tents. dental outfits.
automobiles and kitchens.
Prevention Of vubercuiosis
1t is estimated that some 500. 900
persons are afflicted with tuberculosis
as the direct result of the war. Scien-
tific efforts to control the spread OF
, the malady are not only OF supreme
concern to France herself, but they
are of great importance in making
France healthy for our own troops.
( All work is being done under the
general administration of the French
government, and by French people.
The American Red Cross has appro-
priated S1,0O0.O00 for the relief of
sick and wounded French soldiers
and their families.
! The number of destitute refugees in
( France. in March 1917, was stated by
the Ministry of the Interior to be 4O0.-
/ 900. but there is reason to think that
the number is much larger.
J The Red Cross plans to be able to
take care temporarily Of these return
J ing populations.
! Relief in Devastated Regions
II is not the policy of the Red Cross
: to rebuild the villages of France. but
it is our hope to be able to give new
start in life to large number of per-
sons who have been left destitute by
the ravages of the German army.
The Red Cross has accordingly ap-
propriated $4,000 for a provisional
experiment in this direction, the plans
for the experiment having been work
ed out in France by Mr.. Homer Folks
In this work of rehabilitation the
Red Cross has established a plan of
cooperation with the Friends both
from the United States as well as
from England.
Summary Of Appropriations in France
The budget for expenditures in
France to cover the period until No
vember /. 1917. prepared by J. II.
Perkins, director of the Department
OF Military affairs, Red Cross commits
sion in France. is for total iexpend-
iture of s1.773.250. This covers work
for the United States army. surgical
dressings. equipment and operation.of
diet kitchens. canteens. American Red