AMERICAN RED CROSS IN WAR ZONE
After conferences between representatives of the French Government and Red Cross officials, tho Government has been notified through General Petain that tin! Red Cross organisation )s willing to supply funds amounting to several million dollars for relief work among the .French civilian population (luring the coming winter. The French, it is understood, will work out a general plan of relief, which in their opinion would be best adopted to keeping up tho morale of tLe civilian population, and then turn it over to the lied Cross, which will carry it out and finauco it.
The plan is the culmination of a scheme previously outlined by AlajorGeneral Pershing, Commander of the American Expeditionary Force, whereby the Red Cross shall specialise during the coming winter in ameliorating the condition of civilians rather than devoting its chief energies to the American soldiers, whose relatively small wants will be eared for by the Young Men's Christian Association, at least until they are in the trenches participating in the actual fighting.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 51, 23 November 1917, Page 2
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