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Show Englishwoman Is Placed in Charge of Gigantic Task Lady Muriel Paget Is Administering1 Ad-ministering1 Relief Work in Czecho-Slovakia. PABIS, May 1. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) A woman has been entrusted with the big task of organizing and administering adminis-tering relief work iu one of Europe's new states. Czecho-Slovakia. Lady Muriel Paget, an Englishwoman, whose devotion to the Czechoslovak cause is well known, arrived here from Prague today after a month's tour ot the new republic, and ourlined to the Associated Press correspondent her scheme for the relief of that country. Her plan, which has the approval of the Czecho-Slovak authorities, is to enlist en-list a body of able and willing social workers to train the women of Czechoslovakia Czecho-slovakia iu social iveifare work. Her ambition is to interest patriotic Czech women in America in the welfare of their native land. "There are roughlv five million people peo-ple iu Czecho-Slovakia today who have just enough to keep body and soul together," to-gether," Lady Muriel said. "Against these, who may be described as thc rural population, there are 7. 000, QUO who are below the line of bare existence. exist-ence. They are,- broadly speaking, the industrial and mining population. "Pood, most of it from America, is now coming into tho eouutry through Triest at the rate of about a hundred carloads a day; yet 400,000 people in eastern Slovakia are starving, aud,.eveu in the better situated parts the flour ration is only three pounds a head per month." Lady Muriel explained how this situation sit-uation is utilized by tbe Magyars in Hungary to sow discontent among the Slovaks. "Practically all the intelligent classes have left Slovakia," Lady Muriel Mur-iel continued, "and it. is duriug the present crisis and until their own peo-I peo-I pie can be trained to do constructive and administrative work that the Czecho-Slovak government and the people peo-ple have asked me to organize temporary tempo-rary assistance and provide advice." Lady Muriel will establish her relief headquarters at Pressburg, from which center the sixteen nece-sitous Slovakian districts will be fed, clothed and medically medi-cally assisted. |