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:WE’LL WIN
What does it mean to you to know that your
American Red Cross:
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Iss pporting 50, 000 French children 1"”
Se ds supplies to' 3, 423 French militsn hospitals.
Provides 2 .000 French hospitals with smgical dressings.
Is operating thirty canteens at the front line.
Is operating six other canteens at hemh railway junctions, serving 30. 000
French soldiers a div.
Operates a movable hospital in four units, accommodating 1, 000 men.‘
Is operating a children’ s refuge in one part of the war zone; and in another
a medical center. and traveling dispensary, both capable of accommodating more
than 2 000 children. "
Has opened a long chain of waiéhouses stocked with hospital supplies, food,
soldiers' comforts, tobacco, blankets, etc. ., all the way from the seaboard to thi.
Swiss frontier. , 3 ,
Has warehouse capacity for 100. 000 tons p12)
Has 400 motor cars and operates 7 gauges, making all repairs.
Had shipped 46 freight car loads of assoited supplies to ltaly from France '-
within two weeks after it began operating in the- former country. ,
Had a battery of motor ambulances at the Piave front four days after the
United States declared war on Austria.
' Started a thousand different acti1ities in Italy at the time that nation was in "2
its most critical condition.
Has established 5 hospitals in Qinglsnd and operates arworkshop for hospital
supplies employing 2, 000 women. ,-‘
And that 120. 000 cases of supplies lune been received at the Paris headquar— ‘3.
firstog tg: {American Red Cross from your 1 a1 ious chapters scattered throughout the ‘f‘
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What does all this mean to you? And that is ff
but a fraction of the work your Red Cross has done '
and is doing. It means that without this ceaseless, ,
heroic work of the American Red Cross we could
never win this war. '
Without your Red Cross quick, vital help to keep it:
Withoiit your Red Close thousands of French '
And great and wonderful as has been the work
of the American Red Cross 1n the past, Still greater
and mOre Wonderful must it be in the future—for
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Your Red Cross cannot neglect France, England,
Italy, Serb1a,,Rouman1a and little. Belgium. It must
give them all constantly increasmg help, for the men
of these countries hays been fighting our battles. ‘ :3;
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sacrifices forour Red Cress because 11 3311111011 mothers «11
sons are going to carry the stars a stripes to the 5.
greatest victory God has ever given to men fightmg
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