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Show BY REO CROSS I Huge Sum to Provide Medical Lssh Assistance to Needy Children Child-ren in Europe J sftftl WASHINGTON". Jan 8. The Aiw- . , lean Rod Cross executive committer I has appropriated J5.000.000 to carry' gggg out its proginm of furnishing desper- g)AB lately needed medical assistance for I children lh' Europe. g)gB In making this announcement to-night. to-night. Dr. Livingston Porrand, chair- man of the central committee of th Red Cross, sold the scope, of the so-lolety's so-lolety's operation sin Europe was being B ulteied so that it nught be confined H almost entirely to this work. "The, work which the Amerlcau Red Cross alms specially to carry on Is in the interest of the children who re-quire re-quire medical care." he said. "and should not be confused with that of feeding several millions of children who are not afflicted by disease. Th g)gB general feeding problem is to be met by the Huropean relief council." Nearly twenty children relief units of the American Red Cross ire al- ready in the field. Dr. Perrand said most of .hem in Poland and ultimate ly there will he at least a hundred gggg Plans for the Work embrace tbe Baltic states and to a certain state Austria and Hungary, as well as Pol aid ad- lacent countries and .lugo-Slavi a. |