Show FRENCH WAR BABIES GIVEN BATH BY BF YANKEE DOCTOR By George Martin United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON WASHINGTON Sept 29 A A travelIng travel- travel lag Ing bathtub manned by bya a Yankee doctor doe doe- tor and a Red Cross nurse is on its way through the devastated district around Nesle France today doing its duty by destitute and dirty little war i babies I 1 I These youngsters are refugees from French villages still under German fire Their crying need is soap Map soup and I syrup of figs A French cable from Major Murphy to the Red Cross today described the start of the tho trip A dispensary and shower bath on onan onan an nn auto chassis started through the ruined region around Nesle Nesie in charge of Dr John lohn C. C Baldwin of Johns Hopkins Hopkins Hop Hop- Hopkins kins at Baltimore and a nurse They carried medical aid and anU soap to 0 1200 undernourished unsmiling littIe little little lit lit- tle tIe French children who swarm over overa a n. group of or seven villages clustered around Nesle i On one side aide of the car is a seat for forthe forthe the he nurse and one child the floor floors is s the shower bath of shi y nickel to catch the childs child's eye Warm water vater Is poured into a wooden tub and the child gets In too While the doctor pumps water through the shower the nurse scrubs As the child whitens the water blackens At the finish the rut rul- I ber bel shower tube is suddenly sniffed Into a bucket of fresh cold the bath ends enda with a a dose acco accompanied by screams ms and squeals The devastated and abandoned re regions regions regions re- re gions of or France behind the lines which are pushing the Boches back the cable said is overrun with the the neglected little beings filthy and wild beyond description Another traveling tub has been bee or ordered ordered or- or dered for tor T Toul Tui ut and the French inspector in inspector inspector in- in of hygiene at Amiens hearing I of the yeoman service of the mile mild a a minute washer of ot the childrens children's bureau of the civilian bureau of the American Red Cross at Nesle NOle has asked d th the bureau to study the tho villages In his district district dis dis- with a view to sending some through there |