day to six years. Each child is given daily 350 grams of sterilized milk, kept in clean bottles. The number of children enjoying this milk is: In Beirut: 3,050 children In Sidon: 600 children

Second — securing correspondence between the refugees in Lebanon and their families remaining in Palestine. The number of letters received so far has reached 2,039, and of letters dispatched, 2,307.

Third — the Lebanese Red Cross provides medical care for the sick among the refugees at all its dispensaries in Beirut, Damour, Sidon, Tripoli, Zahle, and Baalbek...

• On the occasion of Christmas, the Lebanese Red Cross distributed to 850 poor Lebanese children, through its dispensaries: 500 kilos of soap 650 kilos of dates 200 of sugar 200 of rice 1,500 of lentils 3,000 pieces of assorted clothing.

• The Red Cross presented to the command of the Lebanese Army 500 infant layettes, to be distrib-

feeding them milk and supplying them with clothing from time to time.

uted to the families of soldiers of modest means; the picture at the left shows this.

• The Tripoli branch of the Lebanese Red Cross continues its work through the zeal of its energetic president, Mrs. Iqbal al-Dhawq. The number of Palestinian refugees there has reached five thousand persons, among whom it recently distributed winter clothing, soap, and 150 sacks of flour.

• Mrs. Laure Khoury, wife of the august President of the Republic, donated to the Central Committee for Palestinian Refugees seven hun-dred infant layettes, to be given to children newly born in the shelters.

• These three boys are: Fouad, Khalil, and Joseph Nahoul, from the village of Samar in Jbeil; they were born among those the Red Cross has taken in hand