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Show CARGO "OF SUPPUES GOES TO MCHtitGEL Hed Cross Sends Relief Ships for Allied Soldiers and Civilians in Starving -Russia. A relief ship wns recently sent from this country to Archangel by the American Red Cross with 4,000 tons of drugs, food, soap and other svp-piles svp-piles for tlio use of the Allied soldiers and needy Chilians in that part of Russia. The vessel's cargo was valued val-ued at $1,011,233. Later, another ship was dispatched carrying 200 tons of similar supplies furnished by tho American Red Cross, the total expenditure for the two shipments ship-ments amounting to over $2,000,000. Major C. T. Williams of lUlUmore was In charge of the party of thirteen which accompanied tbeshlpmeat from this country. lie was former! yt a member mem-ber of the Red Cross Commission for ReUmanla. ""Major Klrkpatrick, stone time a member of the latter commission, commis-sion, but recently attached to the Army Medical Corps, heads the medical medi-cal end-of the Archangel expendltloa. Drugs and general .hospital' supplies constituted the greater part of tfee eargo sent from America. While the chief concern of the ex-. pedltton was providing comforts for American and Allied fighting men la that part of the worM, all efforts were bent to' get relief to the Russian soldiers sol-diers who were returned from German Ger-man prison camps at the rate of about 15L000 a week. The condition of these men was pitiable. It has been estimated esti-mated that 00 per cent of them were tubercular. In addition to drugs and food, almost al-most every Imaginable article on the Hat of supplies sent over was for tho comfort, convenience and pleasure of the Allied soldiers. Just a few of theso articles were playing cards, razor blnilcs, Jcwsharps, mandolins, ncconUons, ukuleles, phonographs, cameras, skates, wigs, whiskers, grense paints, footballs, snowshoca, slippers, hockey outllts, Indoor hasp-balls hasp-balls moving plcturo outfits, Ulblcs prnyor books, boxing glomes, games, music, books, cigarettes, candy and dried fruits. The need of prompt relief for (be Inhnbltnnts of towns nlong the coast of the White Sea mid on the Kola peninsula, mni.y nf whr.n rcrr fnrlnt starvation. w fouvl '" h" Imperative. Impera-tive. Scurvy hud Uu..iu out uluiu,; . the people at tbe-i? places, mldliis to ' the general dlstrexi. The towns to whleh the relief ex-tWtlltlnn ex-tWtlltlnn wns sent are virtually Isolated Iso-lated from the outside world because of the treacherous coast line, shifting 8;iud bars and uncharted waters. An exceptionally early frobt, even for that part of tho world, ruined tho harvests, which were expected to Improve conditions. con-ditions. Statements, printed In Russian, Rus-sian, explaining tho work of the Hx Cross, were distributed among the Inhabitants. |