Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1918 — GERMAN RETREAT BRINGS NEW WORK FOR RED CROSS [ARTICLE]

GERMAN RETREAT BRINGS NEW WORK FOR RED CROSS

In France the retreat of the German armies and the redemption of wide territory has produced a tremendous expansion of all Red Cross activities. The German retreat widens the systematic destruction not only of cities and villages, but of practically everything in the evacuated territory. It will be necessary to provide at once for the housing ofjiomeless refugees in the devastated/areas and In the temporary reconstruction of villages. It will be necessary to provide also clothing, cloth and dressmaking supplies, sewing machines, In addition to foodstuffs and medical supplies, throughout all {his territory With the coming’ again of winter, the fight against tuberculosis must be taken up with renewed energy. Seventysix tuberculosis hospitals have been completed and are in operation, but requisitions have been made for nine-ty-six provisional hospitals, all to be in operation before winter. The Red Cross has adopted as a slogan “to visit every baby In France.” It Is estimated that 80,000 French babies died last year, 40,000 of whom might have been saved. One of the Immediate objects of the Red Cross is to save those 40,000 babies In 1919.