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Show CREDITS RED CROSS . VVlTHGrlEAT WORK Saved Thousands of Lives 1 Among Italian People, Report Says. Through importations and distribution j of white fiour by the American Red Cross section operating in Italy the bread made ; all over l hat country has been greatly ; improved in nutritious value in the past I few weeks, according to official advices received from various sections of Italy. The Hiimo advices credit the activities of the Red Cross in obtaining white flour through importation from the United States with saving thousands of adult and children's lives. Prior to the introduction intro-duction of Red Cross initiative In procuring procur-ing American white flour the war bread used all over Italy was very low in nutrition nutri-tion and is said to have been the prime cause of a sadly reduced vitality among children and aged people. Receipt and distribution of white flour ,in Sardinia and Reggio Calabra alone have- for many months been a sore trial to the civil and military authorities in those sections, and it was for the relief of the situation in those places principally princi-pally that the American Red Cross undertook un-dertook the task .of furnishing and handing hand-ing out a sufficient quantity of wholesome whole-some wheaten flour to raise the food value of the bread. Operations In these sections proved so successful that the Yankee mercy organization was compelled com-pelled to widen its scope of activities until un-til it rovers the entire Italian empire. Four provinces In the district of Regg'.o Calabria received the flour. " In Cosenza institutions In fifty-six towns caring for Sftoo children were .supplied; in Catanzaro institutions In twenty-one towns caring for 2400 children; in Potenza forty-one towns and SI! 3 4 children, and In Regglo Calabria thirty-seven towns and 2689 children, making a total In alt of towns and 17,3'JH children who were benefited bene-fited by the improved bread. In Sardinia 1335 sacks of flour have been assigned to sixty-seven institutions caring in all for TfiSl children. In general, gen-eral, each child has a ration of 150 grams a da v. hut in communities where special conditions exist this was increased in-creased to i'."i0. while in the American Red Cross summer camps, where the children are all undernourished and convalescent, con-valescent, the ration is 300 grams dally. |