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Show RED CROSS While Uncle Sam's boys are feeding feed-ing hot lead to the Huns the American Ameri-can Red Cross, thru a newly inaugurated inaug-urated field service, is feeding the oammies hot soup and hot coffee. By means of a rolling or "peram-bulating' "peram-bulating' canteen system the boys jn th& front-line trenches are served hot food and drink while they are virtually under fire. When they have a respite during, action and they return re-turn to the firing lines steaming cot-fee cot-fee and soup are served by the Red Cross workers. For six months the French troops have had this valuable valu-able service at their disposal, . but not until the past few weeks was the innovation introduced among the American soldiers. Maj. James H. Perkins, Red Cross commissioner in .Paris, has just notified no-tified the war council of his organization organi-zation of the successful introduction of the plan among the United States troops, in a cable, a copy of which was received by the officials of the Mountain Division in Denver recently. re-cently. Major Perkins' cable follows: "At the request of the United States army, the Red Cross has just arranged ar-ranged to install with all American troops now engaged in actual fighting fight-ing with the Germans a special frontline front-line service. This is a development of the front-line canteen thru which the Red Cross has during the past six months served more than 1,000,-000 1,000,-000 poilus with hot drinks. "Today the Red Cross has fifteen rolling canteens behind the lines. From these canteens are sent for-' ward daily, often in the small hours of the night, fifty or more large receptacles re-ceptacles containing hot soups and coffee. These are served free to the men going and coming off duty. It has proved itself to be of such value to the French that the American army has asked the Red Cross to have this service directly In touch with the medical relief stations nearest near-est the front." |