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 service with unstinted devotion and without financial compensation.

As the needs became clearly apparent, additional appropriations in varying amounts were made to Armenia, Syria, Belgium, Poland, Roumania, Serbia, Lithuania, Russia, Turkey in Asia, Jamaica, Australia, Canada and Mexico, totaling $88,000.

The larger appropriations of $186,000 to Great Britain and Ireland, and $214,000 to France, included not only the relief extended in these countries during the earlier part of the war through the Committees of The Mother Church therein, but also the direct assistance given to the men in the service, the conducting of the special Reading Rooms established for their use, the salaries and expenses of the War Relief Workers, and to an extent the distribution of Christian Science literature.

Remembering the paramount consideration of winning the war for Principle, and the necessity of accomplishing this result in the most effective manner through equipping the men in the army and navy for the great task before them, demands were made upon the War Relief Fund for the supplying of Bibles, copies of Science and Health and of The Christian Science Monitor, pamphlets and other authorized Christian Science literature, to the amount of $323,000. In the effort to accomplish fully the great purpose in hand, workers were employed for the various camps, and ports of embarkation; welfare buildings, and other reading and rest rooms in convenient locations, were provided; and also such automobiles and other facilities as were needed for carrying on the work; all of which required a further expenditure of