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Show e CROSS PLUS FOR P FUTURE No Slackening of Work, Despite Armistice and Approach of Peace. j. Instead of discontinuing its activities, as persistent rumor has declared, since the signing of the armistice with the German Ger-man armies, the American Red Cross will be forced to redouble its energies and activities in the fields over which It has been operating in the last, year and a half, and will be required to enter other fields before It has concluded its mission In connection with the European war, according to national executives of the mercy orga nization. I Already the American Red Cross has ' been called upon to greatly increase its I organization in Palestine for large scale i relief. The request for help comes from j lr. John H. Kin ley, lied Cross eommis-! eommis-! sioner for Palestine, who has cabled that j immediate response to his call Is necessary neces-sary if thousands of destitute men, wo-I wo-I men and children are to be saved. The Holy Land is seething with disease and famine, Dr. Finley announces. He adds that one-third the population of Lebanon alone has died of starvation and disease due to lack of nourishment. Many villages are depopulated and in ruins, and thousands of persons are in direst need as the result of a series of ; epidemics and lack of nourishing foods, j He points out that only the wealthy can buy nourishing food, on account of ex- orbttantly high prices. There is no work to he obtained by the laboring classes. Conditions in many hospitals. Dr. Fin-ley Fin-ley says, arc particularly deplorable, on account of shortage of physicians. More than 10,000 sick civilians have been cared , for In a single month by the very small Red Cross forces now employed in Palestine, Pales-tine, and hundreds of sick . are being transported to hospitals daily by the Red Cross motor department. r |