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Show SEEKS FUNDS FOR AMERICANS' RELIEF - v'--5 - f Secretary Lansing Asks Congress to Appropriate $80,000 for Help of Teutons' Victims. WASHINGTON". Sept. 1L For relief cf American citizens in Germany or Ger-tf Ger-tf man -occupied territory and American prisoners of war who may be taken by German forces. Secretary Lansing today asked congress to appropriate $S0,000. Mr. Lansing also asked for $100,000 for special allowances to consular and dlplo-niH dlplo-niH tic officers at I longkong, Saigon, Tslng-Tau, Darlen and Vladivostok, so an to adjust their official income to the cost of living. He also asked for $32.fi00 fir allowances for clerks a t overworked W consulates; $132,000 for contingent expenses ex-penses of foreign missions; $120,000 for clerk hire and other expenses at 'he state department to keep up with the war developments, de-velopments, and $75,000 for traveling expanses ex-panses of this government's diplomatic a'ud consular personnel. |