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Show TREMENDOUS TASK I FACING RED CROSS, t SAYS GEN. PERSHING ! i i Washington, Sept. 10. Tho task of providing for American and French soldiers and the civilian population In tho dovastated districts of Franco j this winter is a tremendous ono nnd must bo supported by expenditures of large sums of money, Major General j Pershing has cabled Henry P. Davl- j son, chairman of the war board of tho f American Red Cross. i X Red Cross work in Franco is being i systematically organized along mill- ii tary lines, General Pershing said, ' and similar organizations "are being brought under one control as far as possible. 'i I He added that he considered tho d Rod Cross management there ox- tremely efficient and worthy of tho It unqualified support of tho Amorlcan pooplo. |