plies and equipment now being purchased and shipped to Rangoon. Ship¬ments to Free China have included medical supplies in large quantities and of many kinds, comprising more than 46,000,000 tablets of quinine, 34 am¬bulances, surgical instruments, and over 3,300,000 yards of cloth for clothing. Distribution in Free China is effected through the Chinese Red Cross, the National Health Administration and cooperating agencies, including vari¬ous missionary organizations. The agencies receiving food supplies have shown ingenuity in utilizing for children's clothing the sacks in which wheat and rice have been transported. It is estimated that 4,225,000 persons have benefited by American Red Cross operations in China, including 1,600,000 children. From the summer of 1940 to June 30, 1941, relief made available to China was valued at $2,936,124. Relief since the outbreak of hostilities in China has required an expenditure of approximately $4,000,000. Finland American Red Cross supplies were being distributed in Finland within four days after its invasion. Upon the recommendation of its representative in Finland, the American Red Cross made funds available for the purchase in England of urgently needed medical supplies which were flown to Helsinki and were being distributed by December 5, 1939. Medicines and surgical supplies and equipment continued to represent the most pressing needs in Fin¬land until the cessation of hostilities. These supplies were shipped through Norwegian ports, while they remained open, to Finland where a representa¬tive of the American Red Cross observed their distribution through the Fin¬nish Red Cross. At the same time cash grants were made to the Finnish Red Cross to meet urgent needs. During that time two members of the staff of the United States Public Health Service, on duty in Europe, were assigned to Finland where they served as representatives of the American Red Cross. After the armistice with Russia in March 1940, extensive relief was necessary to aid in the rehabilitation of the 600,000 Finnish people who had to establish new homes and who required food and clothing. American Red Cross supplies were provided to meet this emergency. Shipments on Finnish vessels were made to the port of Petsamo. There the supplies were loaded on trucks and sent over narrow, icy roads, 270 miles south to the nearest railhead at Rovaniemi, located exactly on the Arctic Circle. By railway from this point the supplies were moved further south to Helsinki and other distribution points. Supplies were distributed through the Finnish Red Cross and other cooperating agencies, particularly Suomen Huolto. Further study of the distribution problem in Finland resulted in the formation in the fall of 1940 of a Coordinating Relief Committee. This Committee, working with the American Red Cross representative, has since Finnish Refugee that time served as the channel through which American Red Cross relief supplies reached the war sufferers in Finland. Under navicerts issued by the British Ministry of Economic Warfare, relief supplies of food, clothing, and medicines continued to be shipped until new military developments late in June effectively closed the channels by which relief could reach Finland. No shipments have been made from the United States since May 29, 1941, and it is estimated that present supplies in Finland will be distributed by the end of September. By June 30, 1941, American Red Cross relief had reached 300,000 peo¬ple in Finland, including 135,000 children. Up to that time, expenditures and commitments for Finnish relief totaled $2,382,131, of which $420,837 represented the value of chapter-produced supplies. Spain In January 1941, an agreement was reached between the Governments of Spain and the United States whereby supplies of flour, milk concentrates, and miscellaneous medicines to meet pressing famine conditions were to be purchased with Government funds and distributed in Spain under the super¬vision of the American Red Cross. This agreement stipulated that: There should be no exportation from Spain of supplies sent or their equivalent from any source. These supplies should be distributed under the direct supervision and control of American Red Cross personnel through competent agencies