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Show Pershing and Staff Enlarge Orphan Fund 117-ASHINGTON, Sept. 22. Geneneral Pershing's last days in France contained an incident which is disclosed in a report Ju reaching national headquarters of the American Eed Cross from Paris. , It was a gift of 94,625.40 francs, over $10,000, from General Pershing ' and the officers of his staff to the I Eed Cross to he devoted to some j deserving work among the mothers i and children of France who suffered in the war. ' A letter accompanying the dona-j dona-j tion stipulated that the money he I placed in the ' ' Stars and Stripes I war orphan fund" which, assisted j by the Eed Cross, has "adopted" I thousands of French children whose j fathers were killed in tattle. |