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Show RED GROSS. SANTA TO FILL SOLDIERS' SOCKS An Old Fashioned Celebration of Yuletlde for American Soldiers in France. A Christinas tree In every ward of every American hospital and In every hospital recreation hut In France I Every wounded or sick American flghtlnc men to receive 'two socks filled, to the brim with fruits, nuts, candy nnd smokes t Thesojnrc tho most lntercstlnb features fea-tures of n tentative Christmas celebration celebra-tion program for tho American hos; pltals nrrnnKcd by tho American Rod Crons In France In co-operntton with tho commanding ofltcers of our fighting, forces In Hint country, 'Details of the plan to make Chrlstimis" 'as Inerry as possible for the soldiers In these Instl tutlons have Jumt been received at Ited . Cross headquarters. Nurses and enlisted enlist-ed men on duty at these places will also share In the distribution of Christmas Christ-mas cheer, Hecnuso of tho limited amount of available shipping space the nod Cross was compelled to abandon aban-don Its original plan to send special Christmas parcels from here to soldier' patients In France. All the articles 'distributed will bo obtained over there. This Is to be an old fashioned celebration cele-bration In every sense of the word. Every soldier wilt hnng his socks on the tree. The socks wilt be tied with red rlbl)on,and In addition to tho good' les mentioned nbovo wilt contain a handkerchief nnd n card, on which will be outlined tho services tho American Amer-ican lied Cross Is prepared to render our soldiers, fcncli soldier will receive re-ceive a sufllclcnt number of Christmas postcards now being deslgucd by artists art-ists In the Hod Cross service to enable en-able him to write to members of his family and his friends back home. The Christmas dinner, of course, wll be one of the features of tho celebration. celebra-tion. After dinner (here will be musical entertainment, motion pictures pic-tures and general singing. |
