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Show Red Cross Supplies Go By Way Of Russia First shipment of relief supplies from an American west coast port via Russia ships to the Port of Vladivostok, for American military mili-tary and civilian prisoners of way held in the Far East, will be moving mov-ing soon, the American Red Cross announces. Large quantities of supplies are moving from American Red Cross packing centers in St. Louis and Chicago to the west coast, for the first loading , The U. S. S. R. has allocated j 1,500 tons of shipping space each month to the American Red Cross on its ships moving from the west coast ports to Vladivostok, the Red Cross states. The relief supplies sup-plies will be reshipped from Vladivostok Vladi-vostok for distribution to all far eastern points where American civilians and military men and women are held in prison camps. One thousand volunteers are engaged at each of the packing centers, turning out a1 quota of 100,000 prisoner of war food parcels, par-cels, adapted to the needs of those detained in Far Eastern prison camps. The 200,000 parcels, plus $250,000 worth of medicines and a large quantity of military and civilian clothing and comfort articles, arti-cles, will be sent in the first shipment. ship-ment. This relief shipment, the first to go from the west coast, j I supplements a cargo of $1,500,000, 1 worth of food parcels, medicines, i i clothing and comfort articles now j enroute via the Atlantic to the: Far East on the diplomatic exchange ex-change ship Gripsholm. |