Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1918 — RED CROSS CARRIES TONS OF FOOD TO BELGIANS [ARTICLE]

RED CROSS CARRIES TONS OF FOOD TO BELGIANS

American Red Cross trucks are constantly in action along the Belgian front. This report of the work of these trucks was recently received by the Commission for Belgium: “In the last two weeks we handled 240 tons of foodstuffs and a large quantity of salvaged material. “We have been saving the effects of people in the shelled towns, Furnes, Abeele, Coxyde, La Panne, Alverlnghem, Oost-Dunrlck, the Trappist Farm, St. Jeanle-Biezen and Renlngbelst. On nearly all occasions when work wms in progress in the last named It has been shelled, but fortunately without injuries to trucks or-drivers.”