Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 19, 1918, Page 6

~_PAGE SIX AMERICAN RED CROSS SOCIETY KEEPS OPEN HOUSE WHERE SHELLS ARE FLYING ON THE BATTLE FRONT Operations Related “for First Time by Major Davis of Service By MAJ. R. W. DAVIS (Written for the United Press) EDITOR’S NOTE—Maj. Davis, of Englewood, N. J., American Red Cross commander, central section of the advance zone on the front, here relates for the first time, with the permission of the Ameri- can Red Cro the things he ac- tually witnessed during the height of the German drive. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN_FRANCE, June 18.—(By Mail). —The intensity of the German offen- sive broke on a front of 45 lome- ters, Bisecting this front and just south of it, lies Compiegne. Compiegne was the point at which many groups of American and Eng- ish, who had admirably occupied in the-devasted provinces, gathered for temporary shelter. Compiegne was the logical spot for the general re- lief headquarters of the American Red_ Cross. When the Red Cross, under the di- rection of the head of the military affairs department, and the inspec- tor general, opened its work, Com- piegne was a de A hundred thousand sold passed thru its -stre but rested there. é none The town life had closed. There were no hotels or stores, no banks. post- offie, police, or hospitals. The in- habitants had been officially evacu- ated. There was no place to sleep, no place to buy or beg food, no place for medical aid. The city was shell- ed often and bombed each night. Red Cross Oasis The Red Cross took over the lead- ing hotel, flung out American flag and the Red Cross flag, opened the doors and left them open day and night for two weeks. The never-shut door was a symbol. The number of “lost.men” who drifted past was as- tonishing—men who had become sep- arated from their units in a charge or who had lost their way in a cr country retreat, whose horses had heen shot under them and who could not keep up with their mounted com- rades—who were wandering around, hungry, cold, wet, che@rfully follow-) ing-rumors as to where friends might ‘be; men who had lost their packs, who had not slept under shelter for ten days nor tasted warm food for eight. he Red Cross hotel was the one living human svot in the ci the floors of the dining and recep- tion rooms, the halls and bed rooms, were covered with blankets. British, American and French slept side by side. The Red Cross set up an ideal for itself—that every hungry man should get hot food. Marmites of stew were kept on the stove. There was plenty of army bread and coffee au lait. The authorities opened stores and requisitioned the perishable supplies for the cuisine. For one lunch 60 full-sized frying pans of omelette were served. No money changed hands. only the polite formula, “This is with the compliments of the Amer- ican Red Cross,” and the almost in- evitable retort, ve been in the war three years, and I never say any- thing like this There is no*way of knowing how many men we fed, as no-one took time to count, and each waited on himself and washed his own plate, but it believed that as many as 800 were in and out of the hotel some days. Under the Two Flags Two that was never shut, stood for the sentiments which America wanted to ss to her associates during the great retreat. The street kitchen, set where the trains stop, and where the main thor- oughfares for the front leave the square, made a record, seldom if ever equalled, during the last seven da of March. By actual count, for a ¢ that w not mo busy than res 000 drinks of coffee of cigarettes were is a fair estimate that the Red Cress gave a hot dring and a smoke, a meal or a lodging to 90.000 men during the last week in March, in the one town of Compiegne. ay the and served, feurs thinkers, E: Irish and Am er by the Catholics, Quakers, and Free- French, Scotch, thrown togeth- rgency, settled into a going organization with amazing jspeed. All lived together like a fam- jily, each doing what was asked of | him» without que n. There was j the spirit of a good-humored, affec- tionate fami Probably such an- ‘other group h not been in actual working contact since the war began. | Under the direction of the Red Cro a unit of English Friends War Victims Relief Committee, a unit of +the Distribution Service of Pennsyl- the Daly Unit of Nurse the Woman’s Emergency Canteen Representatives of at- least three of the Entente Powers lived, ctual com. Incidently, they and like one an- other immensely. The A an Red Cross never can express adequately its gratitude for the rit in which Miss Rennie and her associates, of the Women’s Emergen Canteens, joined forces with the Americans And this unity of eff and sym- pathy among representatives of many creeds, orga ations and nations, un- der the pr re of the moment at Compiegne is another symbol—of.the good feeling and mutual aid that is worked and thought in munity of action. learned to resp constantly increasing among non- ocmbatants of the Allies, | No time wes wasted in formulat- ing plans. The needs were distinct and clamoring to be met. Kitchen in the Street Food and shelter were required. In addition to those fed at the Red Cross hotel and at the street kitchen, a store was opened in the garage of the ho- tel. A can of milk, a tin of beef, a chunk of bread and cheese were giv- en all civilians who asked it. Also there was sweet chocolate for the lit- tle things who looked around thei mother’s skirts. It was possible to meet the requests of the sous-prefects of the neighborhood for food for their charges. For instance, the mili-| tary head of the village telephoned that 800 women and children had come by train to his town, and he 2 had nothing for them to eat a satisfaction to hear his surprise when a truck load of foodstuffs that could be eaten without cooking ar- rived within two hours after the mes sage was received by the Red Cro: Another useful line of work was the tfansport of the infirm and the sick, together with their most precious belongings, from in front of the ad- vancing Germans. The truck drivers worked without regard to hours: or fatigue. They crossed bridges while aerial torpedoes were falling in the water beside them. Several times they got a rheumatic old body out of her cottage just as the Hun wa: descending the opposite slope. So far as known, no request of ‘the French authorities for transportation in evacuating civilians unan- swered. If anyone ever pins medals on anyone for honest work during the Great Retreat, the boys who drove Red Cross trucks should not be omitted. First Aid to Wounded But, of course, the chief work was medical. And the importance of medical facilities, just at this junc- ture at Compiegne, can only be sens- ed when one remembers that all reg- ular hospitals of the region had moved back. No one knew just where the ospitals were, except that they were jdistant. No one knew what to do | with the wounded who lay or sat by } flags hanging over the door|the roadsides, or who walked pain-|!#ws and learned the lessons there} |fully south. Even if one had a con- |veyance, he did not know where to them. Confused ambulance rs continued to bring wounded to hdr empty buildings, which medical peo- ple had evacuated the day before. The little Red Cross infirn Compiegne wounds y in ation s 60 its the dr soldie civil railroad of as many in addition A si to d post de secours of 25 beds was set up in one of the rooms of a palace where and Josephine former] There was a third dress in the Red Cross hotel. Napoleon entertained. ing station "| your life in the years to come. $!piness will disappear. THE CASPER DAILY TRIBUNE pulled away the preceding night. The} French surgeons and dil the nurses | were gone, The Germans were with-| ina half dozen kilometers and ad-| vancing with apparently irresistable | 20 momentum. Everyone felt capture | was a matter of hours. Heavy artil-! lery made terrific din. But the Amer- ican Ambulance sections, long in the habit of bringing their wounded to Annel chateau, kept on coming. They did not know where else to go. Two Red Cross doctors, Maj. Tarnowsky and Maj. Morehead, quietly said that as long as American boys brot them wounded, they would find American doctors to operate. In the deserted chateau the doctors stayed and kept operating. In the nick of time five Red Cross trueks with supplies ar- rived. From Compiegne volunteered two canteen women. America at Its Best Get the picture of that night at Annel. It presents America at its best. It contains the very essence of what Red Cross spirit can be— devotion, resourcefulness, persistance and passion to aid suffering that outranks other emotions. Outside— the moonlight, the hum of planes, the | shaking of the earth, the belching of doctors operated. The crisis passed. routine was resumed. = I carried to the nearest hospital that would receive their type of case. Into all the medical work, the unit of Mrs. Daly, a Red Cross unit that has been serving with the French, threw itself with devotion. 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