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enough to met simple living expenses.
With General Pershing's expedi'
tionary forces the closest touch lie kept
thru divisional and regimental medical
officers, while representatives Of the
| department Of information and casual
| ties and the department OF home serv-
| ice are in constant contact with the
| men whether in the hospital, training
| camp or field. Rest stations and can
teens operated by American women
have been established along the lines
of communication, and emergency
needs for hospital supplies, drugs and
comforts readily are supplied from
warehouses maintained at strategic
points along the line.
ITO the civilian and soldier in France
the message of Americas friendship
has been carried in countless ways,
declares Eliot Wadsworth, Of the war
council, who has just returned from a
three months observation trip in
Europe. Supplies for thousands Of
hospitals; rest and food for hundreds
of soldiers at railroad functions; food,
clothing and transportation for
refugees driven from their homes, and
helping hand in their housing and
the beginning again Of their house,
keeping are few of the activities"
With vision that has distinguished
it's work since Americas entrance into
the war, the Red Cross already has
established at Berne, Switzerland,
large warehouses containing supplies
of food and clothing for Americans in
German prison camps. Packages for
the prisoners are being sent forward,
under arrang ements with the German
government, and thru Red Cross chan
nels there comes practically the only
official information concerning those
Americans who have fallen into Ger
man hands.
Supplementary to its other activities
is a campaign of the Red Cross to
combat the ravages Of tuberculosis In
France. Every protection is given the
the dependents of men at the front,
and special efforts are made to effect a
who have become subject to the
disease as a result Of long detention in
prison camps.
In England the British Red Cross
has carried on a splendid work since.
the beginning Of the war. However,
the American organization has contri-
buted from the war funds more than
two and quarter million dollars for
British relief. The American commits
sion in London looks out for the well
fare of American troops who stop over
in the metropolis en- route to the front,
while American troops in training
camps or hospitals In England are
carefully ATTENDED by the British
organization.
Relief in Other Nations.
american relief Il Belgium has been
conspicuous since the violation OF the
nation by Won Kluck's hordes, but the
work of caring for the civilian popula-
ton driven into northern France. con-
tinues under direction Of the COM
mission located at Havre, the tenn
porary seat of the exiled Belgian gov
eminent. In closest cooperation with
existing committees and army author
tiles. the Red Cross. thru donations Of
food, clothes and comforts. Is en-
deavoring to alleviate the sufferlngs Of
countless men. women and children.
In Italy, the work closely parallels
that done in other allied countries. The
regular tasks, incident to relief effort
in a belligerent land, were increased
by the disastrous retreat
from the Isenzo front a year ago.
Thousands of refugees streamed across
the plains of northern Italy with little
or no money and with few household
snatched from their fire.
sides as they fed before the Austro-
C,erman advance American ambulance
sections aided in the work OF caring
for the wounded, while Red Cross
workers established rest stations and
canteens where the immediate needs
Of thousands were met. Since the rel