The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-09-13

special fund of 500, 900 has been pri-
vately contributed to meet the expens-
es of members Of the commission to
France unable to pay their own way.
The war council has sent to Europe
five separate commissions, each COM
posed Of representative Americans
skilled in business administration, in
medical and surgical work, and in 9TH
er lines Of Red Cross effort. The
work covers a wide scope of relief
from the establishing and maintaining
of hospitals for soldiers in the Amer
lean army in France, to civilian aid,
including the care and education of
destitute French children and the re-
habilitation of the devastated areas in
France and Belgium. Relief and pre-
ventive means against tuberculosis
which has greatly increased since the
the war, also will be supplied. A plan
has been devised also to extend aid to
soldiers and civilians held as prison
ers by the enemy. These are only a
few Of the many avenues thru which
the Red Cross relief will flow to the
countless thousands of war victims.
The Red Cross in France has as
sumed the management of the war re-
lief clearing house. 1t has taken over
under control of the United States
army the administration of the Amer
lean ambulance hospital at Neuilly. It
has assumed financial responsibility
for DR.. j. A. Blake's American hos
pital III Paris. 1t has allied itself
the work of the American surgical
dressing committee which distributed
in France in July 7s2,949 dressings
among 435 hospitals.
The effect has been in accordance
with the expressed views of the presi-
dent of the United States and of the
civic and military authorities of
France to coordinate along helpful
lines all relief work being done in
France and America. The first and
the supreme object of the task is to
care for our own army and navy. To-
ward this end the Red Cross is estab-
fishing field canteens, which it will
provide for every corps of the French
army as well as for the American ar
my. There are now large reception
camps near the coast where United
States soldiers are received.
Along the route to the firing line
the Red Cross has established infirm-
aries and rest stations. At railway
stations canteens are being establish
ed where our soldiers may find rest
nd h. &c De-
games and other comforts will be
available. When American troops
start for France, the men are given
comfort kits. Christmas parcels will
be sent over later
Various appropriations have been
made to worthy causes, such as 81 900
900 for the relief of sick and wounded
French soldiers and their families
$1,200,O00 for medical research work
in France; s50c,O0O for supply ware
houses; 81, 100000 to buy food stuffs
be sent to France, and $1,000, ,0oO
for the hospital supply service.
The transportation problem with
which the Red Cross has had to cope
in moving supplies over seas has been
most difficult, but through official
French, British and Italian cooper
! alton with the United States shipping
board and leading steamship and
railroad companies, vast quantities
of supplies are now shipped almost
daily. A special Red Cross transport
service has been developed in France
! as the railroads there are overtaxed
with military needs.
Six base hospitals were sent to
European fronts in advance Of the
dozen are now actively in service there
and others are rapidly being made
ready.
1t is not the policy of the Red Cross
to rebuild French villages, but it is
hoped to afford new starts in life to
large number of persons now desti-
tute thru ravages Of the German ar
| my. A provisional experiment along
this line are being worked out.
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