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Show AMERICAN RED CROSS COMMISSION ACTIVE Handles Its First Emergency Call From French Government in Creditable Credit-able Manner. PARIS, Sept. 8. The new American Red Cross commission In France handled its first emergency call from the French government the other day. Late one afternoon word was received that a large number r f children, many of them helpless babies, were being assembled as-sembled In one or two towns behind the bring line. As the Prussians wt;re using poison gas bombs, and as it is impossible to supply the children with gas masks, they had to be removed from tiie firing one Immediately. At one place as many as 4 1 10 children under 8 years were as-som as-som bled. The following morning the American Red Cross sent doctors, nurses, a carload of condensed milk, clothing and riruv and by the middle of the next day had sft un n t'-iiiporary organization, obtained a milk supply, cleaned the rhildien and cleaned a 1m rge building for ) heir reception. recep-tion. Within four days all cases of illness were well in hand. Homer P""lks has arrived In Paris to lake charce of the department of civil affairs af-fairs in the Red Cios.-. He is an expert on the treatment and prevention of tuberculosis, tu-berculosis, and was for twenty-live yairs secretary of the .tatf Charities Aid association as-sociation of New York. He Is assisting in tiiis wnrk of earing for homeless and suif ering French children. |