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The American Red Cross has pro
vided 250,000 articles of clothing for
returning Italian prisoners.
The graves of 1,000 American dead
at Surenes, Prance, were decorated by
the American Red Cross on December
28, 1918.
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American Red Cross cautiniers and
nurses marched in the parade that
celebrated the return of Alsace-Lor
raine, in Paris.
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Reports received by the department
of nursing of the American Red Cross
give the names of 204» enrolled Red
Cross nurses and three Red Cross
dietitians who have died of influenza,
contracted in the performance of their
duty.
The volume of relief which the Am
erican Red Cross is extending to the
French people at the present time
equals the average of the past year,
according to recent cablegrams from
Paris. There has been no sudden
withdrawal or loss of interest in the
needs of the population which has
undergone such trials in the war
period and is still staggered by its
burdens.
Warehouses have been established
in the devastated regions—at Lille,
Amiens, Laon, Mezieres, Chalon and
Verdun—and these are being stocked
with enormous quantities of cloths,
household utensils, tools and supple
mentary food, for distribution, through
authorized French societies, to the re
turning inhabitants. While Red Cross
delegates have been withdrawn from
the central and southern parts of
France, all supplies in those sections
have been left for the carrying on of
refugee relief, and arrangements have
been made for the turning over to
local authorities of all unpaid install
ments on supplies sold to refugees, as
a revolving relief fund.
The decrease of work necessary for
the troops, as a result of the ending
of hostilities, has enabled the Red
Cross to divert large quantities of sup
plies as well as personnel, including
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nurses, to meet the needs of relief in
the devastated areas. Furthermore,
the fact that the Red Cross now is
working largely through the medium
of French agencies also diminishes
the need for new personnel at the
present time. Men, women and trans
portation' released by the ending of
military operations are being utilized
to the full.
Among the new American Red
Cross undertakings in France are per
manent hospitals which have been
opened at Paris and Etienne, a large
ammunition center. While the’ man
agement of various civilian activities
is being relinquished, the cables
state, these activities are being turned
over to French authorities, with
means for their continuance. Em
phasis is laid on the great need at
present, not of personnel, but of sup
plies and transportation.
“I made more friends among strange
people as an Intelligence DepaVtment
man in New York than I knew existed
in the world. I had a lot of dicto
graph work to do. There is one hotel
man in New York who, when I re
quested permission to establish a dic
tograph in the wall of a certain room,
said to me: ‘Go as far as you like.
Stick a dictograph in every room if
you want to; tear down the walls in
every room for all I care. If that is
to be my bit toward winning the war,
I’ll put the dictographs in at my own
expense.’ ”—From “What the Censor
ship Hid,’’ in the February Red Cross
| Magazine.
The American Red Cross in Switz
erland has done much for evacues and
refugees, and also for the Swiss Red
Cross at Basel, a town through which
altogether about 800,000 French and
Belgian evacues have passed. Then
there were certain trains of wounded
and consumptive Italian soldiers be
ing taken from Austria through Switz
erland to Italy; and at Buchs (Austro
Swiss frontier) the Americ'ans had a
canteen and an organization for sup
plying refugees not only with food,
but with underclothing and shoes.
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These tuberculous Italian soldiers
lised to come from Austria without
any underwear, with their shirts in
rags, and half of them without shoes
or boots, their feet being bound up
with rags.
Russian prisoners of war in Ger
many, who have suffered perhaps
more than those of any other nation
ality, have not been forgotten by the
American Red Cross in Berne, and
much has also been done for Serbians.
For Instance, fifty Serbian officers and
medical students have been enabled
to continue their studies in order to
be able to return to their country
fully qualified doctors or dentists.
Armenians loyal to the allies have
also been cared for and helped. Fin
ally, as much as possible has been
done to put work in their way of
needy Swiss women by giving them
clothing to make for evacuee and refu
gees.
The American Red Cross began its
work in Switzerland in April, 1917,
with a staff mostly volunteers from
the United States. The paid workers
were typists and clerk3.
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This story comes from a Red Cross
searcher, who got it from one of the
glorious “fifty thousand,” a young
American Lafayette who volunteered
back in 1914. The boy had gone
through the first gas attack at Ypres
and was one of the few who came out
alive from the murderous yellow
cloud. “I have seen the Yser when
you could cross it dryshod on bodies.
I have seen such deeds of heroism
in action as make any story of old
time prowess seem tame. But there’s
one thing that I saw, not in action,
that chokes me up every time I think
of it.
“There were two British lads in the
regiment next to us, two brothers.
They were both fine fellows, but the
older one was just about the finest
chap I ever knew. Trey had both
loved the same girl back home, it
seems, and there had been a pretty
hot rivalry between them. Well, just
before they were sent out, she decided
for the younger one. The other one
took it standing, like a man, of course.
But any one could tell he was des
perately hard hit. We always knew
from the way he fought when his
brother had a letter..
“They both got hit in the same
action. There was a system then
(and maybe now, for all I know) of
tagging the men for Blighty with a
blue teg. let's say, (i think It wai
blue, but It doesn’t matter.) Oi
bourse, only the most serious casef
were sent across the channel, onlj
the men who were thought too bad tc
pull through without the very best ol
care. It was the older brother whc
got the Blighty. His brother, whc
lay next him at the Casualty Clearing
Station, was tagged to go to some hos
pital in France. During the night
while his brother slept, the older one
changed the tags. The younger one
went home and married the girl dur
ing his convalescence. The older one
died before they could rectify the
mistake.”
GERMAN [STERS
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MUNICH, Jan. 12 (by mail).—Much
speculation has been caused by the
question of what the “revolutionary
ministry” is costing the state of Ba
varia, especially in comparison with
the former ministry. There are eight
ministers in the cabinet today, and
each draws $4,500, making a total of
$36,000. To this must be added the
pensions of the seven ministers who
were removed, also $4,500 each, mak
ing a grand total of $62,500.
The salaries today are consider
ably more modest than those paid the
old cabinet which, with pensions to
talled $84,250. The new state of af
fairs is therefore, so far as the cabinet
is concerned, nearly $20,000 cheaper.
This may be almost equalized, how
ever, by the expected expenditure of
$15,000 annually for the new ministry
for social affairs.
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MEXICO REDUCES TAX
ON FOREIGN IMPORTS
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 1$ (by mail).—
The Mexican senate and chamber of
deputies have decided to abrogate the
presidential decree of August 22,
which placed a 30 per cent tax in
kind on importation of news print
paper. Virtually all industries con
nected with the graphic arts have pre
sented petitions to set aside the de
cree, as the Mexican paper mills were
unable to supply the demand for
paper. At the time when the decree
was abrogated the embargo placed
by the United States on news print
exportation to Mexico had not been
lifted.
Exercising the powers in financial
matters granted to him oy congress,
President Carranza has fixed a tax of
12 centavos per kilo (2.20 pounds) on
news print paper imported from for
eign countries. This takes the place
of the tax in kind which was set
aside.
It is stated here that the United
States ambassador, Henry P. Fletcher,
has received authority to lift the
United States embargo on this kind
of paper and newspapers here expect
that he will do so as soon as he is
satisfied that there is no further dan
ger of paper falling into the hands of
-newspapers opposed to the United
States. By collecting a tax in kind
on newsprint imports the government
was enabled, unless an embargo were
imposed, to obtain goods for industry
in Mexico regardless of whether it
was pro-German or pro-ally.
Other articles of commerce affected
by new presidential degree are: Re
duction from 40 to 20 centavos per
kilo of the export duty on tobacco; in
crease of the export tax on cotton
from 3 to 8 centavos per kilo; de
crease fTom 15 to 5 centavos per kilo
on imports of caustic soda, for the
purpose of encouraging the Mexican
soap industry; extension until 1920 of
the decree removing all import duties
on automobiles, motor trucks, agricul
tural and manufacturing machinery
and accessories.
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