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Show FRENCH RELIEF FUND RAISED IN AMERICA WASHINGTON. Sept. 2. A French relief re-lief fund js being formed to assist sick and wounded refugees, not only French, 'ul r- ino Pclpia n. English a nd other na -ti'.nalil now swarming lulo Paris and other French centers. An organization will short v he perfect ed nmong t he many people in i fro:-1 ed In Fi a mo -A meri - an activities t hrou'-'houl the country. Meantime individual .subscriptions are being be-ing received by the French embassy in V Hshlngion. which will see that the funds a re pro perl v applird. He port s reaching here f rorn Ph ris and other places In Fiance tell of liC misery,' pa rt iciila r! v a mi -tig the poorer cla sse'n, following hi the train of ihe war. These a me fn nn A nierica n and French residents resi-dents of P.-irlf. Mrs. MeiiiiHit M. Maries, wi fe of 1 lie American ba nker In Pn risi benig among i hose who have drawn pr- '-f.il attention to the urgent noeds of the thousand.'! of French and Belgian peannlrv driven into Paris bv the onrush of Ihe contending forees. An a nnounceiiient will be rnnde Inter of Ihe, 1 1 el;, ilp nf riru-n niza tton of Ihe French fund, which will be centralized and adminlsiei cd by the French eni-1 eni-1 a shy. |