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Dec. 12,1917.
CHILDREN CRY
“VIVELA FRANCE!”
Starving Belgian Children
Reach France and Are Cared
For by American Red Cross.
A cablegram received a few days ago
the headquarters of the American Red
Cross brought another human interest
story of tragedy and pathos in the child
of tlle French and Belgian war areas.
"Six hundred and fifty underfed chil
dren. travel-worn after three days in a
closed train coming from Belgian pro
vinces.’’ says the. cablegram, ‘‘crossed the
frontier last night and reached Evian
at dawn. The morning blare of French
trumpets met the children who, soim
too young to know their age, had tra
velled motherless and unaccompanied.
They poured into the street crying ‘Vive
la France’ and 'Vive la Belgique,’ shak
ing hands with every bystander.
'Trumpeters, like six Pied Pipers or
Hamelin, led the dancing, shouting
throng to the casino—all except a few
sick children who were carried in Am
erican Bed Cross ambulances. At the
casino all received food; flags were dis
tributed and songs were sung. Welcom
ing words were spoken by the mayor.
Fven t^le ■‘■mall children knew the words
of Braboneonne and the Marseillaise, but
some of them were so tired that they
slept right through the music.
“Next came baths, examination by an
American Red Cross doctor; and then
lunch and sleep. Tomorrow these chil
dren start for Longlandier, where the
American Red Cross will house thou
sands of them—some orphans, others
jiretubercular or needing better onurish
rnent than was possible under the Ger
man rule from which they had come.
“One little girl in the throng disem
barking at Evian clutched four franc
pieces in a pudgy first. ‘What are you
going to do with them?’ she was asked.
‘Buy a. paper to write to mamma,’ was
the reply.” 1
Another cablegram received at Red
Cross headquarters says that in a speech
to the last train-load of repatries, the
mayor of Evian caller particular atten
tion to their gratitude to the American
Ri d Cross, for the splendid work it is
doing in hospital care of sick children.
The speech was instantly responded to
with shouts of “L’Amerique vive nos Al- .
lies.” I
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TRENCH AND CAMP
New TTench Digger
An article which appears in the latest
issue of the United States Field Artillery
Journal, the official bulletin of the United
States Field Artillery Association, indi
cates that the trench-digging problem has
been solved and that Americans are now
manufacturing machines which in a few
minutes can do the work of scores of sol
diers.
"Not long ago,” says the Journal, “in
a street in one of our Ohio cities a ditch
digger was moving along steadily up
grade, at the rate of something better
than a yard a minute, cutting through a
heavy macadam road, the prepared sur
face and bed of which was in perfect
condition. It excavated a. ditch 2 feet
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SOuDIERS
We Are Ready to Help You Fight the Cold.
Note the following new arrivals:
Sheep-lined Coats in all sizes $12.50 to $20.00
Overcoats, sizes 34 to 48 $32.50 to $50.00
French Coats, sizes 34 to 48 $27.50 to $40.00
Heavy weight Uniforms and Army Regulation
Sweaters.
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wide and 5 1-2 feet deep. The excavated
earth was poured out of the machine to
one side of the ditch, where it rose to a
height of some three feet above the nor
mal surface.
“This machine was preparing a con
tinuous excavation for the purpose of
laying a pipe line ,and it was so efficient
that no gang of workers, with the pipe al
ready stretched along teh route, could
lay this pipe in the bottom of the ditch
and join it and execute the filling as fast
as the machine could travel. The result
was that the machine worked but a few
hours a day; the pipe-laying detail work
ed all day.
JOFFRE A COOPER’S SON.
Marshal Joffre is the son of a cooper and
was initiated into that trade before he
went to Baris to study the science of war- I
fare. i
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