Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Cross is doing in furnishing medical aid and hospital supplies in at least half of the hospitals in France. "But beside helping the wounded man, it does work of infinite value for the well soldier behind the lines and in the rest camps, and also for the ten million homeless, ill-fed and wandering children, without parents, schools or churches. For these children the Red Cross is doing work of untold importance. It is also taking care of the old people who are being sent into France by the thousands, without property, hungry and almost without clothing...
...last week and as a great many people wished to have it given again, it was decided to repeat it. The proceeds will be given to the Cambridge Red Cross and will probably be used, in part, for the alleviation of suffering among those people who have been rendered homeless...
...America has come nobly to the front, and American help is being given in every part of stricken Europe. A considerable amount of money has already been provided by citizens of the United States for the needs of the homeless, the foodless, the sick, the wounded. Much more, however, is still needed, for, greater yet than the treasure outpoured so freely, is the mighty and ever-growing need. In Belgium a whole population is barely being saved from sheer starvation; in northern France the wretched non-combatants are in as pitiful a plight; in Servia, disease of the most malignant...
...Harvard Club of London War Relief Fund is established for the special purpose of instantly responding to such calls, primarily from the Harvard Hospital Units and Ambulances, and for Harvard relief of the starving and homeless...
Madame Vandervelde, wife of the Exprime minister of Belgium who is touring this country to raise funds for the starving and homeless Belgians, will give a lecture tonight in Tremont Temple, Boston, at 7.45 o'clock on "Conditions in Belgium." Admission will be free and a collection will be taken up to go to the relief of the Belgians. A chorus of Belgian refugees will sing their national anthems...