New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 17, 1918, Page 5

AGITATION FOR A WOMAN'S WAR FUND Woney Would Provide Pensions for Nurses Wounded in Battle (By Addison C. Thomas) Do the American people know that “Our Women" the fmportant work are doing at home and abroad? rlisle, who is at in a recent letter and Mrs. Charles Bend, Indiana, onstructive wonderful vice ren- dered by the “American Women" of American Red Cross and the Y . A. To quote | he epirit of the American soldier | wonderful. “Our Boys” go into | T » with a smile and a song of | courage, and vet with a resolute will that drives fear into the hearts of the enemy When ‘Our Bo; fall, it is facing the enemy. [ wish every onc | t home, particularly the loved ones | f our fighting men, could see ‘Our | as they go into battle. It's the | proudest moment of life and the ndest. Every one of these blessed men feel that if he fails to get there on time and at the very second when called into action, the tight will be 1 That's the spirit of the Amer- n soldier and that's the couraze we American women at the front ap- plaud Here's a toast M Kathryn ( the front in Fran to her parents, Col. of South the great A hrought value of the Carlisle, out se one of our brave ! officers left with It expresses the ‘attitude of ‘Our Boys' to us and their protection for us, perhaps better than wny word of minc ‘“To our women, forth with courage in their h tears in their to our women home who are sacrificing all that win our women over here who give their own lives that we may live, hless them, and damn the man that does not respect them and he coward that does not protect them.' Our sent us | rts and at we who cyes may to God bovs' mean every word ex- and no woman was ever | thoughtfully considered and than of American who serve Boys' at pressed, mere protected Red Cross the front. “After every battle and we see 'Our Boys' coming back he battiefront—blood-soaked —bayonet and shell wounded sh! hew brave. The splendid, wonderful the American soldier is in like man- ver reflected by the constructive and sficient service of the “American Wo- man” with the American Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A Addison C. Thomas many years with the Associated Press, who first Miss Carlisle’s letters | from the front, caught the vision and | napiraticn to do something substan- {al, something quite worth while, for he American Red Nurse and sthers who serve Boys” at horie and abroad After t was srican pcople lellowing In behalf of all the men’ at home and abroad » the American Red Cross ¥. M. C. A, and to thc aumber who serve elsewhere, all with | the same to be of real value he “Ameri- san soldi to the Am- | people the we the ‘Our intervals, from weary but spirit of of Chicago, for read read Cross “Our Carlisle Am- the | with Col bmit to the through the pre: and petition ““American Wo- who serve and the countless conference decided to s gestion hope desire, and service to this petition dedicated and rican and fore it is o invite e o contribute, res American citizen freewill offering ‘or the express purpose of establish ng the American Wonien's War Fund,” out of which shall be paid & substantial pension to every Ameri- ~an Woman who gives up her life, or who sacrifices opportunity at home, Nat Boys”, ar in the welfare and comfort of penny contributed shall go to e ““‘American Women's War Fund"” and shall be held for distribution by a Finance Committee’” to be selected sy the American Red Cross and the ¥. M. C. A., and approved by the Sec- stary of the Treasury of the U. S. A Every penny contributed shall be | asld by the “Finance Committee’ subject to order distribution by wn “Executive Committee”, who shall se'selected and directed by the Amer- ean Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A, | sxecutive head officers, and if they | lointly fail to agree the Secretary of | he Treasury of the [7. S. A. shall have | full autherity to tak over all funds and direet how it shall be distributed 8a for no: if when dizeretion he may better serve “Our ways contribute other 1o Every and Ve, and and permit in “American of her its Woman' woman service to » tamily Jes up American any e life in the or who makes at home or may hetter serve of money that in may, in discretion of the sxecutive Committee, show an ap- | ton the American people | contribute and soldier sacrifice the A sum apecial ad that the preci make possible fund » each person W contributes Certificate of Mem receipt of the o | ho be n a hip, acknowledging gntribution. and once each far as it is possible to do so, the Exee- | utiye the press pr otherwise, compre- ehgive Teport Every child in Sunday schools, @ schools and elsewhere is invited to ontribute one penny or more each onth for a period of one year, mak- ng their payments direct to their choo! teacher, who will deposit the unds with any National or State ank, for shipment to the National inance Committee, care American ked Cross, Washington, D. C Every man and woman in America invited to make a “free-will" of erjng-—payable at one time, or in in- allments, within a period of twelve onths—-and make all payments di t to & National er State bank, who vear, Committee. " make a pub- ! France, | vision | ing | might | ing of the ing |.with will report the ind remit the INinance Commiittee, Ied Washington, BATTLE OF XIVRAY, National American D to the cave me | him out of the me to the local press | amount roiled all regiment passed 1 of effo to LA\G rts of I divis Dt > officers i i BRIT. perseverance (e He left [ until he had rewched the la | over with THERE WAS AFIGHT ~ OPERATIONS ON THE E Americans Showed Best Qualities There, French Say With the Amer oops June The Associated (Correspondence Press) Though American troops ha had threc gagements in the Toul sector durir the past threc months Stheretb en- men in the been just on fight.” The big raid on Apre they call “the Apremont refer to the attack later “the Seic the rning of J they s “there was a fight.” This distinction does no wrong to the defenders of Apremont and seicheprey. The men did their best there, and that hest was go0d could expected under circum- stances, but their best then 50 good as their best at Nivray is the significance given to the tinction by French ofticers. They that it was at Nivray the men hold- the sector showed they had learned how to do what must b done in the front line. Xivray has a similar meaning to the Germans in that sector if the cvidence of prisoners may be trusted, The men captured there show in- creased respect for the fighting quali- ties of the Amevicans and betray deeper awe of the American chine gun. It is no hont ir affair’ Seicheprey, heprey 16 April oy of ten thing 1t Niv as as be the was That dis- disparagement of the work the ordinary rifle did there v that the quick-firers decided issue. Two companies of infantry, without dugouts to shelter them theiv grounds on the right of position through a heavy artiller; preparation and kept the enemy from | reinforcements through- Meanwhile in the cente at Xivray and on the left, the chine gunners did the rest The enemy's plan according prisoners, to force the village, troy the works, make the untenable and take prisoners offort was well organized have succeeded but for work of the quick-firers Six hundred men advanced to attack in no less than a dozen differ- ent columns, led by two hundred plcked Bavarian troops. They came up on right flani left and on the center under cover of smoke, making a dark night stil darker. They crept no the ravines 1 slipped through the hollows. The sharp ears of sentries aione prevent- ed a total surprise. Their guns laid down a barrage that the reinforc front line. platoon, led by Lieutenant Doan Maine through the first curtain of five. cven went through the e volunteers, but that at could he sent t were holdit only bringing up out the fight to was des place The defense the storming the on presented One from got scond with was all the 1o the the sline at- tacked one to three but they and dismay One machine village was reduced Monfort Wyckoff a Their gun jammed o Germans off with while Wyckoff got the again They held their ground to the end. Two othe en, unable to sight at the Germans from their trench climbed the parapet and stood there orect firlng their auto matics from the shoulder. Two infan fantrymen crawled out shell t a better aim Two hundred timate of the men hurted forty-seven the field and there were more in the tall fucing the tlon out of reach. Thus the Germans lost nearly as many men as they had facing them during ‘the fight One of the heroes of the cook who had been dismissed the service on account of loose respect drink. When 1s of an astonishing They we fought in a way to the six hundred G un section two rprise mans. tn the men, John Ilynn 1 Flynn kept his rovolver anick-tirer go the get a of a to ex- our on ative for them corpses ‘onsery 1o Hals German posi- day was from habits to sober he v ossessed held | the | ma- | and | the and not ma- | to | the | heavy hox | Doan | '\KaNnALnSK H 2 *++ @ BUDAPEST HUNGARY The allies have driven the iki a hundred miles down the railway | Archangel from have to t and (2) British troops have reached of Persia by way also Ty to Q S < X \ he landed o , cut of wh ere i sseshskia n Onega the fugit Baku in co-or (f EME 3 ANS ’\\( & Bep B SOALE OF MILES Bolshev- | 1) Bay ives. 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