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Show Comfort Kits Sent 40,000 Service Men by Red Cross Gay patterned cretonne bags, or comfort kits, containing articles useful use-ful and amusing, are sent by the Red Cross to. 40,000 soldiers, sailors and Marines, on foreign service, as Christmas Christ-mas remembrances. The little gift bags are donated and packed by women in Red Cross Chapters Chap-ters all oer the country. They are despatched by Army transport In the early autumn in order to reach the foreign ports and posts of the U. S. services -in time to be hung on the Christmas trees. Giving the remembrances remem-brances from home is the outgrowth of a plan adopted by the Red Cross prior to the World War when so many National Guard regiments were on the Mexican border. |