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Show Santa Cfeas Ship Begins Taking i On Xmas Gifts ( NEW YORK, Nov B. The arm's ."Santa Claus" transport Merria today began taking on its Knights of Columbus Colum-bus Christmas cargo for ' merican troops in Siberin. In addition to great quantities of flour and "grease" for doughnuts, there are 19,000,000 cigaretls, candy, chocolate. cake, crackers, bouillon cubes, mufflers and tubes of tooth paste. Two dozen footballs foot-balls for games between American, Russian, Japr.nese and Chinese soldiers sol-diers nre included 'In the shipment. Twenty-five per cent of the United States forces in Siberia are Raid to be at Vladivostok. BO per cent distributed along "50 miles of the Trans-Siberian railroad and the remainder at a point 2,000 miles from the Russian port. |