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 members in case of need, which money was to be accounted for by the respective members of the Committee.

Some forty families were helped by this fund and it was indeed a very vital thing to them to be able to put their children in safety outside of Paris or to feel that they had by them a sum of money sufficient to cover the expense of leaving Paris if it became urgently necessary to do so. In not a few cases the people who had been granted this money returned the same to the Committee as they felt so certain a sense of divine protection that they remained in Paris in spite of seemingly desperate conditions.

During 1918 some 100 individual cases were helped, of which 48 were Scientists.

The coming to France of the War Relief Workers opened new channels by which help could be extended to war sufferers. These workers were established at Bordeaux, Brest, Tours, St. Nazaire, Langres, Nevers, Nantes, Le Mans and Romorantin, and all were asked to send particulars to the Comité Français of cases needing help.

A letter to the Mayor of each of these cities setting forth in some detail the objects and aims of the fund and the work already accomplished by it, was delivered by our representative in person, together with a check for the relief of war sufferers in each of these districts. The amounts delivered to the various agencies aggregated 40,000 francs.

In every case the War Relief Worker was most courteously received by the Mayor of the town. In Le Mans particularly our Worker reports: