Helping France; the Red cross in the devastated area . 4 Helping France Commission. It consisted of the controllingoffice in Paris, quickly amalgamated into theBureau of Rehabilitation and Relief, and fielddelegates sent out from it to definitely assignedareas. To make the plan of operation clear,it will be better to consider this method asoperative from September 1, 1917, to March21, 1918. On this latter date occurred thelast German offensive which swept again intochaos the region liberee. It was evident that material relief was thething to be sent first into that stricken coun-try. There was
Helping France; the Red cross in the devastated area . 4 Helping France Commission. It consisted of the controllingoffice in Paris, quickly amalgamated into theBureau of Rehabilitation and Relief, and fielddelegates sent out from it to definitely assignedareas. To make the plan of operation clear,it will be better to consider this method asoperative from September 1, 1917, to March21, 1918. On this latter date occurred thelast German offensive which swept again intochaos the region liberee. It was evident that material relief was thething to be sent first into that stricken coun-try. There was need of tons of clothing, ofshoes, of furniture, particularly beds and bed-ding, of household utensils, agricultural im-plements, stoves, soap and food. Free trans-portation by rail had been accorded. It re-mained to divide the four invaded depart-ments (the Oise, the Aisne, the Somme andthe Pas-de-Calais) into districts centeringabout warehouses which should distributethese supplies. Haste was important; sum-mer was turning into autumn, autumn into. The Son of a Soldier, Paris. The Plan: Administration 55 winter—such a winter as the invaded terri-tories had never seen. For it must be bornein mind that even under the German occupa-tion, there had remained to the unfortunateinhabitants their homes, their furniture, theirfarms. Whereas the autumn of 1917 foundthem free and reunited to their country, onthe other hand, scarcely a family had escapedits quota of members sent into slavery, andonly a small proportion retained their roofsabove their heads. With the kindly cooperation of presets,mayors and army officers, the sites of thewarehouses in the north were chosen andbuildings secured at Amiens, Ham, Nesle(Somme), Noyon (Oise) and Soissons (Aisne).The latter, the nearest point from the greatcentral warehouse at Paris, was distant sixty-five miles; Amiens, eighty-one miles away,was the farthest north, but Ham was thirty-six miles from Amiens, through which owingto the St. Quent
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