The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-29
XMAS CARTONS TO GO OVERSEAS NOT ARRIVED AS YET Local Chapter of Red Cross Will Announce Receipt On Arrival. SOLDIERS MUST
 SEND LABELS War Department and Post Office Regulations Must
 Be Followed Strictly.

The local chapter or the Reo cross has not received its Christmas car tons as yet, but will announce their receipt as soon as they arrive.
 Hundreds of persons who misun- derstand the regulations concerning the mailing of Christmas packages to soldiers overseas have been calling daily at Red Cross headquarters in quiring about the Christmas labels distributed to the men in the Expedi- tionary forces.
 In order to make the situation clear to everyone, the Atlantic Division of the American Red Cross, today issued a statement setting forth that the Red Cross has no part in the issuance of these labels.
 The War Department has arranged the system for distributing the labels. They are supplied to the soldiers in France and in no other way. Com pany commanders give them to the men. The soldiers are ordered to address them to themselves and then mail them to the one person in this country from whom they wish to re- ceive gifts.
 In no other way is it possible to get labels. Contrary to the seeming ly general idea, the Red Cross has no supply of them and will receive none.
 If a person has received no Libel but wishes to forward a gift to a man in France, he must find the sole | possessor of the label sent to this country by that man. It is possible that the local chapter can aid in the | search, if the label was sent to q person in this city; but in no other way can the organization be of as ! sistance.
 The local chapters responsibilit! begins when the label is brought tc | it's office. Then 1t will give out { carton. After the carton has beer filled and returned, it will inspect tht container and see that it is wrapped correctly. The organization will ther forward the package to the transpor tation point for shipment overseas, tn sender paying the postage.
 The Red Cross has announced tha it is following War Department an Post Office regulations in handling tn Christmas packages. The rules mus | be obeyed to the letter. No infringe ment, however trivial, can be permit ted, and infringement of the rule will probably lead to the sacrifice 0 the parcel itself.
 The Red Cross also announces tha it has no jurisdiction concernin packages for the Navy Department
 These packages are not to be in spected by the Red Cross. All ex press parcels for the Navy should b addressed to the Supply Base, Twen ty-ninth street and Third avenue South Brooklyn, N. Y.
 Every person who expects to send Christmas parcel overseas should GU out the following and keep it for ref erence.
 The War Department will provid each man in the American Expedi tionary Forces with one Christina Parcel label. This label will then b forwarded by the man to the perso in the United States from whom h wishes to receive his Christmas Par eel. On receiving one of thes Christmas Parcel labels the perso
 receiving it should present 1t at tn
 Red Cross Headquarters, Seaside IT
 stitute, Atlantic and Lafayette street
 and there receive a carton of tn , prescribed uniform size and shap
 Persons living in towns or village :, which are associated with the Bridge
 port Headquarters should apply fC - cartons at their local headquarters. n The function of the Red Cross T to distribute the cartons upon pre- z entation of a Christmas Parcel labe which has been received from a ma 1 in American Expeditionary Force !, l The responsibility of the Red Gro is for the distribution of the cartol ' only, and not for the distribution the Christmas Parcel labels, whic
 latter is in the hands of the Army al :. thorities.
 When packed, the carton should
 taken back to the Red Cross Heat
 quarters where it was originally O / tained, unsealed and unwrapped reaC v, for inspection. It will there be i
 spected, wrapped, sealed and, aft
 the shipper has affixed the postage
 carry 1t to Hoboken, New Jersey, d
 livered by the Red Cross to the DO ,. office authorities. With the depos - of the parcel with the post office a !, thorities, the responsibility of the Rt
 Cross ceases.
 @ It is not expected that these Chris IL mas Parcel labels will reach tt
 country before November 1 and u - cartons will not be ready for al ! tribution by the Red Cross Chapter Branches and Auxiliaries before N