Show Sifts Gifts of Mercy Move to toWar toWar War Victims f l' l DO note t e in nali warra ared front Europe the of Jt of the International p 1 be bt the tells movement In the C fa ret Ie es of of the N o IYo or from home to of at w. w SARGENT SARG BY GENEVA ENEVA Aug 2 27 The Teles Tele Tele- b j s special special News Service The Service The Theof ages a es of mercy gifts of food tobacco soap and books books- dog do u t Coving smoothly to th the e ml millions million U IOns fin by Europe's Europe s western prison t Ja sir feul sira U a officials of the International l ss already are grappling Si th lh the problem of new armies of r ers on the ne new eastern front n n Russia and Germany erma y De Postal sial bags bag of prisoners prisoners' pack pack- are piled pile high in the ware- ware hoTes ses es' es Geneva's of railway station u iffa dozen Swiss postal clerks irk r swift swiftly y and carefully to dis dis- fa ch them from relatives he packages c come me m li friends from Red Cross ross ch chap chap- p- p s' s tas pi r other humanitarian agencies lAthe jute homelands lb In each prisoners prisoners' camp there is islean lean of confidence appointed flie prison prisoners rs from among their out what have group up to find men relatives or friends in a position blend them pa packages These lists 3 then sent to national Red e Cross Crossi j i Cleties or other organizations c. c Help for Poles Rome ooma- ooma 1 Polish prisoners 0 roSe OZE families had disappeared ared or orsett Jere W unable to send them any sort if of relief were thus helped Ir ced with the problem of almost French prisoners in camps mover ver Germany and occupied France whose needs were v very e r y the summer of 1940 a Red ci Cos committee organized mass roD c and deliveries of food i io o hes medical supplies jam and Fm Fifteen en hundred freight cars and HaSs carried pounds of iH canned foods and clothes to torr rr Faith Frach ch prisoners as gifts of the Fr French i ch Red RedCross Cross British prisoners in Germany fared less well for a long while b because Beane use transport difficulties across Sp Spun Spain in were cre holding up British RedCross' RedCross Reder Red er te Cross' ss' ss packages for months at a foie Before the Geneva Red Cross ns fable able to negotiate with Portugal ud and d Spain for better transport it bought bight tons of food load on the content continent con con- conent tent to send to British prisoners' prisoners camps Later in the year negotiations at Lisbon enabled packages to be shipped to Mediterranean ports tim avoiding the uncertain rail trip trig across Spain Even now it anally takes about four months Wore lucre ore packages from America teach wen lach the camps Package A Week r Karl Carl arl J. J Burckhardt member of we the e International Red Cross com corn committee cittee ee since his post as League of high commissioner at Dan- Dan z says every Brit Brit- ih prisoner now is able to receive I yeast east one package a week In Ine the e first three and a half months Pits this year parcels arrived Geneva e eva for distribution to Brit- Brit I prisoners in Germany Italy and ranee I iFor or the six months following the led defeat in France in June m 1310 only packages con- con aning ng food medical supplies toO to- to ho tto O and some clothing arrived in Geneva gawa eva Most of those packages ved smelling strongly of the Indicating i how long they had been n held in up Lisbon LIn IS Geneva Geneva damaged parcels av- av t about 2 per cent of the Iff total ital are fe put aside their contents sorted and everything usable Ie forwarded in bulk to the tan Ps s 's confidence man man manI I careful record of every parcel Sa or not not not-is is kept at the station n of the International Red Ped r that thi at l Cross oa Prisoners' Prisoners bureau so I anyone wyone may refer to it B to ks I feta Needed Too I Almost ds most of as Important as physical I l prisoners p are their intel intel- edv and recreational needs AI- AI beta een than 25 00 books have W sent to prisoners' prisoners camPs camPs- of re were sent directly by l Red Cross but tut lost rost of the bo books ks are in French Jut Italian Ii there n I are G German English Spanish Russian Greek t and Arab books too have authorities Critics of each coun coun- boo the he final rIght light to say what Several veral nay may y rea reach the Prisoners veral M i Sports Itol French are banned writers In Germany including including equipment and musical en are other gifts to on prison pris- pris l Obia b camps am ja s 's ss a constant where barbed wire danger |