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Show CLOTHING FOR BABIES IS SENT TO POLAND Made by Women in United States and Shipped From Paris by the Red Cross. PARIS, Dec. 11. (By the Associated Press.) Clothing for babies, made by American women in all parts of the United Unit-ed States, filled an entire car in a large trainload of Red Cross relief supplies which recently left Paris for Poland. Other Important items which made up the fifty-car fifty-car relief special were refugee clothes and hospital garments, foodstuffs, medicines, hospital supplies and farm machinery. Aid to orphanages and children's homes is an ever-increasing activity of the Americans in Poland. At many points along the old Russo-German front, east of the River Bug, where the country was swept bare of everything, they have furnished fur-nished equipment, food and clothing: to help the Poles establish orphans' homes, to care for the lost children who are constantly con-stantly drifting across the border with refugees returning from Russia. Existing orphanages, which have been found sadly in need of food and clothing to care for their charges, have received condensed milk and other food supples, and children's garments and dress material. mate-rial. In some districts the Americans Have hired CEirpenters, paying them with flour, to make little beds, benches and tables for children's homes that have been stripped by the war. |