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Show THE FIRST SQUARE MEAL How Red Cross Has Fed Italian Prisoners. Last spring the Red Cross workers nt Berne were busy irnagMf to care for the Aiiiericun soldiers who were tnken prisoners by the (ierinans. mul now the new excboiiKe agreement I ineitns that Italians from Austria on their wily back to Itnlj are befog cared for In hundreds. They are h pit- j thetlc lot, these "Knind blMMM the hopelessly wounded men- but tliey are always delighted with the prospect of (olnt; home, even though It limy be Kolnx home to lie. Nearly nil of them lire tuherciiliir The method employed Is till: Tle Italian (iovcriiincnt sends n iriiln Into Austria tlirotigh Switzerland to gntiiei up the men released under the ex- Iwi nir.- BKreement. The tnilti crosses the Swiss berdM and at lturhs Is met by delegations from the allied Ited Cross organ! atlons, and under the present plan the food Is furnished by the American lied Cross. To tunny of these men this Is the first square meal that they have had for years. Cloth- I ing is also furnished them. Reck mini of the .'!'" which each train carries is , given cigarettes and a small American flag, and many who have been in I America, some of whom liiire taken I out their first papers, are overjoyed it I the hit of red. white and blue and niosi demonstrative In (heir delight. The representatives of the Ited Cross j remain on the train until It rem lies j Enrich, then return to Switzerland gain. It Is the footl which America has sent over which gives to these men their first meal food which has heeu saved b) eating smaller portions and by going without |