The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-03-08
RED CROSS PROGRAM
SENDS RELIEF TO
Al COUNTRIES

Blitz. buzz-bombs, disease and de-
struction have brought American
Red Cross civilian war aid to al
nations throughout the world since
the start of the war;
More than $110,0OO,0OO expended
since 1899 has sent five million gar
ments to English people who lost
possessions during the heavy bomb
ings- of their nation, completely
equipped for 10 500-bed hospitals
for liberated towns in the USSR,
and delivered As tons of medicine
each month into China for people
driven into the interior by the on
coming japanese military.
Of the nearly 10000, 900 garments
produced by American Red Cross
chapters during the first five years
of the war in Europe, over 21,O00,-
900 have been sent to foreign coun-
tries for distribution to civilians.
Other millions are enroute and ma
terials for many more. garments
have been purchased and distributed
to chapters to be cut and sewn.
From England, hundreds of let
tiers to the American Red Cross ex-
pressed gratitude for American
clothes and "comradship." Some of
the letters-all written in fortitude
not complaining-are from school
children, some from mothers and
expectant mothers.
Clothing was sent to liberated
France and distributed under the
supervision of American Red Cross
workers assigned to assist the Ar
| my with civilian problems in thai
country. Three million garments
were in France for distribution
within six months after the June
1914 invasion
Handmade clothing as well a:
purchased garments were sent also
to Italy, Greece, the Philippines,
Norway and Soviet Russia, for war
impoverished civilians as we'll IS &c
refugees there from other coun-
/ tries.
Since supplies Of medicines and
medical equipment are drained By
war, special Red Cross expenditures
have been necessary to keep civil
ians from suffering from the lack O.
X-ray apparatus, processing
outfits ,ambulances, typhus decon-
| tamination equipment, Bralle mate.
rails and other medical necessitie:
| have gone to the USSR through the
Red Cross, together with the equip
ment for reestabhshing 10 hospitals
which had been destroyed
Chinas need for medical supplies
continues great. and in the face OF
almost impossible transportation
problems, 40 to so tons each month
are flown into the Far East coun-
try from the United States by way
of India. The danger of epidemics
arising in the make-shift camps to
which countless Chinese civilians
have been moved has made especial
| " vital the unceasing supply d
Red Cross medicines and drugs.
Shortages of food supplies IN war.
ravaged countries, notably France
brought shiploads of food into The
nations for Red Cross apportion
ment. When American armies wen
into France in June. Red Cros
workers with the military fount
that some of the 1941 and 1874.
food supplies still were being uset
by the needy natives.
Refugees in the Middle East were
also sent food, and Red Cross rep
resentatives in North Africa ar
rar1-ed distribution of milk ant
other foods made available by thu
Allies to children and nursing
mothers. To some countries, vita
Minis and cod liver oil have beer
sent to supplement the insufficient
food supply.