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Show WOUNDED AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN CANADIAN WAR HOSPITALS. The Red Cross authorizes the following: fol-lowing: Canadian hospitals in France are helping to care for wounded soldiers of the United tSates forcesc according accord-ing to information recently com-munitcated com-munitcated to the national headquarters headquar-ters of the American Red Cross by the chairman of the executive committee com-mittee of the Canadian Red Cross This information was in the form o a cablegram from Lieut. Col. Noel G. L. Marshall, chairman of the executive ex-ecutive committee in Toronto. It reads as follows: "Please inform Washington everything every-thing possible being done by our society so-ciety for American wounded In Canadian hospitals." This cablegram indicated that at ,that time it was dated April 18 Gen. Pershing's men were fighting shoulder to shoulder with the Canadians Can-adians whose gallantry has been one of the most glorious features of the war. Where the Canadians have been placed, the hardest kind of fighting has been expected, and some of the most important results have been achieved. Some weeks ago the war council of the American Red Cross made a contribution of $500,000 to the Canadian Can-adian Red Cross. The gift was without with-out restriction of any sort, but thr hope was expressed that it would be used to nurse and comfort sick and wounded Canadian soldiers. |