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Show Comfort Kits Sent 40,000 Service Men by Red Cross Gay patterned cretonne bags, or comfort kits, containing articles useful use-ful and amusing, are sent by the Red Cross to 40,000 soldiers, sailors and Marines, on foreign service, as Christmas Christ-mas remembrances. The little gift bags are donated and packed by women in Red Cross Chapters Chap-ters all over the country, They are despatched by Army transport In the early autumn in order to reach the foreign ports and posts of the U. S. services in time to be hung on the Christmas trees. . Giving the remembrances remem-brances from home is the outgrowth of a plan adopted by the Red Cross prior to the World War when so many National Guard regiments were on the Mexican border. |