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Show FOREIGNERS SENDING VAST RELIEF HOME Over 90 Per Cent of Food Drafts Sent to Europe Gifts From Immigrant Population. Out of their earnings, for the most part 08 unskilled laborers, living from hand to mouth, the foreign-born element ele-ment In the United States Is contributing contribut-ing largely to the funds for food supplies sup-plies to aid the starving peoples of their native lands. Figures from the Food Draft section of the American Relief Administration show that $5011,110 had been sent to Poland, up to tho end of November. $158,170 had been sent to Czecho Slovnkla, Hungary had received $382,-700, $382,-700, Germany had $1,448,010 and Austria Aus-tria $2,010,720. It was estimated that more than 00 per cent of this money had been spent by nationals of these various countries who are now in the United States. There aro about 1,600,-000 1,600,-000 Poles, 800,000 Hungarians, 000,000 Czechs and 000,000 Slovaks In tills country. Tho profits which resulted from the snlo of these food drafts have been turned Into the fund for general child feeding. It Is to bring this fund up to the point where It enn meet tho demands de-mands on It, to save tho lives of 8,500,-000 8,500,-000 children thnt the European Relief Council has been formed by eight great relief organizations. |