440:. During 1919, the three hospitals treated some 4,000 patients. The Red Cross Society organized chapters in cities and towns across Lithuania, established training courses for nurses and midwives, helped negotiate prisoner of war exchanges, arranged health checks for war refugees returning to Lithuania, provided humanitarian aid to Lithuanian prisoners and deportees in Russia, treated wounded soldiers of the
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organizing local administration in Kaunas area. He was also a board member of a trade union of electrification companies. In 1922, he became chairman of the state examination commission of physicians. Unlike many other activists of the time, Šliūpas was not keen on writing and contributed only a
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was lifted in 1904 and
Lithuanians were allowed to organize their own cultural societies. Šliūpas became an active organizer. He helped organize and in 1904–1906 chaired the
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who transported and distributed the banned
Lithuanian publications. He was implicated in the large case against Lithuanian activists and book smugglers in 1900 (known as
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Tsarist police in 1900 and exiled to
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in August 1923. In 1924, the society started publishing
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magazines for
Catholic youth. In 1910, together with
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