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Show Vast Sums of Money Spent in Gifts to Go to Sick and Wounded. WASHINGTON, Aug. 30. Officials of tho national committee of patriotic and defense societies urge that the vast sums of American money ordinarily ordin-arily devoted to the purchase of the Christmas gifts be used this year to relieve the sick and wounded soldiers in France, to rehabilitate devastated French villages and to support war orphans and cripples. 00 Efforts are being mado in China to revive the ancient Chlnose art of porcelain por-celain manufacture, which has fallen seriously behind in recent years. |