New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 19, 1918, Page 11

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1918 Vi D carEsar COOULLENS & AVENNES /q\/ /./\r\/f////r: NESLE PZ27.%4 % 6‘/81’ COURTY Bova GOLANCOURT OMONTDIDIER OLAOK 0;9&«/»’4/5 © TLERMONT ver > FROM A FRONTIER VILLAGE. QSENLIS L s PR : Wlll/—)}'flfifr : 3 & e o ) its ¥ o Moo o from ™ AEAY § % £ b 82 o jo 4 4 columns ¥ i 2 p g 5 et the machine | s S : ing in the desertéd® WOLE omTREE, £477LE LINE BEFORE SPRING DRIVE OF /9/8- b ; : milk was supplied om ’ The American Red Cross at was evacuated with the aid of the h@ pital barge, and its patients were tak-" en to a place of safety. The Daly Unit, working under the Service de Sante of the French Army, evacuated its patients from a hospital near Com- = = == — i === — - piegne and then offered its personnel MOTOR TRUCKS ACTED AS DRY LAND FERRIES TO SAFETY. ——r PRECIOUS PERGONAL BELONGINGS WHICH REFUGEES INGISTED ON SAVING for soldier canteen service. At Beau- THE VILLAGES IN THE THRICE FOUGHT OVER BATTLEFIELD. DURING THE LAST DRIVE —mt=r vais a refugee hospital was opened im- mediately, with American doctors in [ By EDWARD EYRE HUNT. tated region food, clothing, furniture, Story of the Destruction. lans from Ham were withdrawn first| At the rall heads the refugees sat |Charse. TLodgings were provided for kitchen utensils, building materials,| The desecrated lands were fust|to Nesle, and then to Roye. At Nesle, | among their bundles, families huddled | 5768l bundred fugitives, and the in- seed, farm fmplements, smull livestock | springing to life again. The first|the American Red Cross had storage | together fearful of heing separated in | (253Dt land ferry service, which had and fowls, sprouts of spring wheat carpeted the | facilities In two wooden barracks, aud | the bustle, their feather-beds and often | D€eD Ipausurated at Crois-Molignaux The relief activities of the Red |valleys; daffodils waved in the wind; fits stock of food and condensed milk | thelr rabbits and a goat pressed close | o7 the frst day of the battle, was cone the fragrance of cherry blossoms hung | were of immediate value to the refu-|to them. They were dulled by the | {/nued 1n the west. in the air. In the crispness of the|gees and the wounded soldiers stream-|noise and by thelr own weariness. The Little Lost by Red Cross. early morning gangs of French work- |ing In from Ham. A small but impor- actlvity was caused by the Amerl- | 'The Red Cross stores at Hs men in the two big Red Cross bar-|tant children's hospital also was at | each of whom insisted on finding | ana L had been lavish racks were just getting r v 1o go|Nesle, in a brick house called the |“my people,” and collecting them 80 [ for the benefit of British and Fr to their work when the British Town- | Pavillon Joffre. The doctor, the|that he might better attend to their|troops. When the warehouses wera Major came in. “We must evacuate nurses and their patients were evacu- | wants, “Petits peres,” an old woman | finally given up there remained in your workmen across the Somme,” he fated to Royve. where they installed |called them, them only a few heavy things, such as said. “All civilians are to be sent be-| themselves in a small civil hospital| From the human side the evacuation | stoves, that could not be carried off or yond the river at once.” belonging to the Secours d’Urgence, |is, and always will be, Indescribable.|used on the spot, and some small Civillans from neighboring towns|and where that night they received |It was a vast lava flow of men, ani- | stocks of civilian clothing. In dollars were herded together with their hand [ wounded soldiers. The following day |mals and materials. Every little coun- | and cents, or in pounds and tons, the they were evacuated to Amiens. {try road and every highway was|American Red Cross lost little in its The British and American Society | jammed with the endless lines of |evacuation. ot Friends, in close affillation with the | camions moving back the aviation| Ip closing his report the Chief of the American Red Cross, reported them- |camps, pulling out immense guns, sal- 1 of Reconstruction and Relief, selves and their cars immediately to | vaging military supplies of all sorts, | Acting Field Commander of the Ameri- the relief delegates in their districts. [and at the same time removing the |can Red Cross in the War Zone, whose These noncombatants worked under |civilians and their little possessions. work of nine months had been swept shellfire without sleep, without rest, The refugees in their weak misery, |away, said with absolute confidence day after day and all the nights. The [and the soldiers in their grim calm- |and optimism: Philadelphia Unit, at Villequier-Au- | ness, passed each other on the roads; “The same old needs of shelter, food, mont, did similar service. | the one moving forward to stop the|clothing, tools, medicines, and the The Blerancourt Unit used thelr mo- | invaders, the other fleeing back to |friendly fellowship which have been tor-trucks to capacity in evacuating |safety. The fugitives carried, as best | the blood and bone of our work in the civiliang from the villages northeast |they could, their valuables, seeking|pevastated Reglons—these remain. | the banks of the Somme, the RED CROSS MEN AND x| Oise, and the Aisne, were burn- WOMEN AT WORK. */|ing like bont and Allied airplanes, | sweeping back from patrols over St.|Cross, apart from its house patching The Tull story of Just what our Que [{ru\\;m&l}jn:c-l ‘:l.".m.‘gh.,,:.';:ur,if,[D,f and repair work, were carried on Red Cross Is doing in the Great ks {:’r = ‘"v(x:smd 'Fhe Grrnm;\ t}hmu';':lh l-rnnfh n;lm‘f. _:‘”C.M,“ 5 :)r Battle now raging in France, X |, pjjes were in retreat, but they had “”’“-’“fl' Eroune0f Lqorichon o st and how it is doing it can never * |(taken their revenge lwy:.\‘flemmimllv e e es gendabyginetsonn be told In anything Ike com. * |burning or blowing up every house, | peeeneon o oo oo oir examDle ) S Se. | hreathed life into the rulned farms. pleteness. * barn and every stable In scores | One such group was the American Here is a snap-shot of the Red * s of villages. So It was a|jyung for French Wounded at Bleran- Cross men and women at work— % | court, in the Aisne. Another was the two snap-shots, In fact. First, a % Society of Friends at Golancourt, Ham flash at the work of reconstruc- % and Gruny, in the Somme. Another on and A Gl Organization of Relief. was the Smith College Relief Unit at | baggage and livestock. 'The rapidity spoiled French people in the % | Life had come back to the desolated | Grecourt, In the Somme. Through |with which the order was executed farms and villages of the * fields and villages in the year which [ such devoted groups as these goods | was almost incredible. The two motor * * * * * * * * ok sk Kk kK ok ok kok ok k ok ok ok ok k ‘THL little towns and villages along * * * * * * * * * * * * ik * * * Ll A % |had passed since the great German |were distributed to the destitute, and | trucks which belonged to the construc- Somme, Oise and Aisne Valleys | retreat. Slow 1d painfully people |the implements for farm labor given |tion camp were hastily placed at the after the great German retreat * |, \oturned. And when the Ameri-|to the able. Along with the relief disposal of the population, aud a sort a year ago. The second snap.- {can Red Cross sent its Commission to |societies there was an lmportant move- | of dry-land ferry service was estab- shot is on the very same scene Europe last year, almost fts fi | ment to organize agricultural co-opera- | lished back end Yorth to the bridges in the great battle offensive now thought was how it could help these |tive societies in the devustated region. |over the river Somme. American mili- going on. people. When the Department of Civil | Almost one hundred agricultural asso- |tary engineers had built those bridges Contrast the two pictures— Affalrs was created its director, Flomer | ciations were in existence; the French|for the British army. The American one a picture of rebuilding, aft-r Folks, formed a Bureau of Reconstrue- | governwent rented them American | rellef staff in the town of Ham began the retreat of the Huns, the s |tion and Relief to tackle this problem. | tractor [\llnws, am! the Red Cross an immediate evacuation of its small other the work the Red Gross s |Several rellef departments were estab- | bought them flocks of sheep and|store of supplies; its cars organized a | £ = headquarters in the war | quantities of seed for planting. erry service and carried exhausted |©of them. | safetr, and the younger men of their | The volce of America has been heard mengsndiwomeniare idalng, gnot Ak ilians beyond the danger zone. The| On the third day of the battle the |Face bearing heavy equipment, went|ip France. It is being heard more only to aid the soldiers them- * |.¢ Arras, Ham, Noyon and Soissons|a day since the Germans were driven | chauffeurs drove again and agafn into | Unit itself was forced to leave Bleran- | quletly towards the maelstrom. It was |joudly and more clearly every day. it selves, but to save the children, * |\within cannon-shot of the Germans; It {back to the Hindenburg line from the | the bombarded towns to bring out the | court. At one o’clock in the morning |like some mediaeval pageant, for the | pyust be heard until we win the vic- * * * !lished with one; it located front-line warehouses| "That was the situation one year to | | the women, the aged as they flea sccared remarkable field workers, and | burning villages In the Somme, the |last remaining famliles. One of the |they went to Vie-sur-Aisne, where al- | Weak and the strong, the dazed and |tory, and along with the voices of tha from the readvancing German at the heart of the destruction wrought | Oise, and the Alsne. A week later, | chauffeurs in a camionette drove Into |ready they had established their of-|the keen all bore spring flowers, yel- [ fighting men the voices of the huilders hordes. by the Germans, In the valley of the |every trace of this work was blotted | Ham with three flat tires on broken-|fices and their movable goods, The or- |low daffodils or pale anemones, which | must be heard—the men of the plo % [river Somme, it began patching up |out; the Germans had again occupled |down springs and carried out six|phans whom they had adopted were |they gathered as they went along. |and pruning hook and saw and ham % k & & & % & & & % % % % k % % % k | houses and stables for the returning |the terrain which for “strategic” rea- | wounded British soldiers. taken even further from the lines, to Splendid Emergency Relief. mer and lathe side by side with the !veasants. It shipped into the devas- |sons they had evacuated a year before.| The staff and the two thousand clvil Villers-Cotterets. , On_the third day of the battle the !men of the sword.” IR R RS N UP QUICKLY oR ViL S |WRAPPING SEALED, STERILIZED JARS IBEFORE STORING, TO EXCLUDE LIGHT AND /50 PREVENT THE BLEACHING OF THE PRODUCT| RETORAL AR GARBEN COMMISTION'\ 4 Yop e \ Vet Sron, & Home canners will find detailed in- structions for every step in canning and drying in our free book issues by the National War Garden Commis- sion. Send two cents for postage. NATIONAL WAR GARDEN CoMMISSION Preparing dried products for stor- . 8. Food Adminiseration ing. Various types of containers are - : . Food Administratson s8I E drmimistration Baking powder b , ad, mufins, brown bread, griddl. here shown, together with melted g B fea i e D benliwayia ve ol St o mdsuis G eakes en waffles is wot dey “quick breads.” v paraffin and brush for sealing. For Sides savin' fats en wh Save € su De song sez “Dar's Sugar in de Gour hut Br'er 'Tater 'lows I e e e e L S e seve mugar Is ter uso e7TURS en honey. G e dat de only sugar he's studyin' ‘bout now-a-lavs fs what's In de sugar substitute flour to save all de wheat dat ki peiifar s Bolies: Somi4 on = A nice 1i Al e COBRL ¥ SRS insl Coriin olks ki ek Wb o ke sEES G ds Bolens Eom two-cent stamp to the National Warz cakes is one er de hes’ Ways to “get crost” wid de sugar projick, it De folks wots doin’ de fightin’ mus' have sugar fust folks kin git er'long widout any wheat at all and are glad to do it ter D A ; s Hos & help win de war. Garden Commission at Washington saves wheat flour, too. But ef dars enny sweet'nin’ in de gourd now'days, he sho' gwina Dat ain't bad med'cine to take. fo' who's gwine tu'n up his nog» ap for the free canning book. o anped: ‘causs deyis lookin' fer isyrups.en.'lusaes; en ‘honkysae d co'n bread er biscults er fapiacks? ashie