ut 16,000. This will give some conception of the importance of the
task involved in the caring for the sick and wounded of about 90,000
fighting troops, some 60,000 auxiliary troops behind the lines and the
reserve depots in England.

[Illustration: Map]
FROM THE VOSGES MOUNTAINS TO YPRES
Map showing the Northeastern frontiers of France, and neutral Belgium
through which the German armies poured in 1914. The battle line held
straight from Belfort to Verdun, with the exception of the St. Mihiel
salient. Above Verdun the line veered to the west, north of Rheims,
marking a wide curve toward St. Quentin and Arras and bending back to
Ypres, held by the Canadians throughout the war.

The work of the Canadian Red Cross Society included the building and
equipping of auxiliary hospitals to those of the Canadian Army Medical
Corps; providing of extra and emergency stores of all kinds, recreation
huts, ambulances and lorries, drugs, serums and surgical equipment
calculated to make hospitals more efficient; the looking after the
comfort of patients in hospitals providing recreation and entertainment
to the wounded, and dispatching regularly to every Canadian prisoner
parcels of food, as well as clothes, books and other necessaries: The
Canadian Red Cross expended on goods for prisoners in 1917 nearly
$600,000.

In all the Canadian Red Cross distributed since the beginning of the war
to November 23, 1918, $7,631,100.

The approximate total of voluntary contributions from Canada for war
purposes was over $90,000,000.

The following figures quoted from tables issued by the Department of
Public Information at Ottawa, show the exports in certain Canadian
commodities, having a direct bearing on the war for the last three
fiscal years before the war (1912-13-14), and for the last fiscal year
(1918); and illustrates the increase, during this period, in the value
of these articles exported:

VALUES
Average for 1912-1913-1914 1918
Foodstuffs $143,133,374 $617,515,690
Clothing, metals, leather, etc 45,822,717 215,873,357
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Total $188,956,091 $833,389,047

As practically all of the increase of food and other materials went to
Great Britain, France and Italy, the extent of Canada's effort in
upholding the allied cause is clearly evident and w