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Show REFUGEES POURING INTO FRANCE FROM RELEASED COUNTRY LONDON, Nov. IS. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The total number of persons now In France that were cast out by the Germans from Belgium and northern France is estimated by the Belgian Bel-gian relief commission at 300,000. Of late they have been coming through Switzerland Switzer-land at a rate of 20,000 a month. French committees, overwhelmed with the work of caring for this great influx, are being assisted by the American Red Cross, which has established a well-equipped receiving re-ceiving station at Evian. Contrary to widely circulated reports, the Belgian relief commission has ascertained ascer-tained that the condition of the refugees is relatively good and that there is no truth in information it had received that tuberculosis was raging among them. |