| Show BROKEN DOWN BY DISEASE AND BRUTALITY VICTIMS Off OF GERMANS REACH HAVEN By Milton Bronner WASHINGTON Jan 19 I 1 I have Just seen the little French town on the Swiss border through which Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many pours back into France all the theold theold theold old broken men and women the tiny starved children the wrecked soldier prisoners of whom it can make no possible possible possible pos pos- pos pos- sible useI use I have seen seen through the eyes of ot Mrs June Richardson Lucas American American American Ameri Ameri- can Red Cross worker whose husband Dr William Palmer Lucas is head of or ortho tho the Red Cross Infant welfare unit in France Dr Lucas was formerly medical medical medical medi medi- cal professor protessor of the University of ot Cali Call fornia After Arter reading the diary letters of ot Mrs Lucas if It I 1 have one wish in the I world outside the fervent one that my country shall shaH whip Germany it is that the Huns never reach these shores with their own particular brand of ot hell I I Mrs 1 Lucas Lucaa shows war as the kaiser practices it It She furnishes terrible I pictures of the aftermath of war war war war-of of Jf what it means meats to be caught back of I the German lines in Belgium and anel northern France She has seen the sad procession of crushed old people Sho She pictures the starving and frightened children children chil children dren with black clothes and dead white whitefaces whitefaces whitefaces faces soldier prisoners broken by the unspeakable prison methods of ot the Prussians Mrs I Lucas is down at Ics les Bains the little French city on Lake Geneva Two trains a day come in to each bearing its burden of people The Tho children are very largely fatherless fatherless fatherless father father- less and motherless The Tho old people are uprooted from the little villages where they dwelt so IongI long Iong- and which have been destroyed by the i I Huns Even though they are back in France Trance they hey feel like strangers In a strange i in land n There Is a place where th they y are given given Iven Iv- Iv I en food and shelter There are Red RedCross RedCross Cross hospitals for the sick There arc re registration bureaus sometimes the little ones arc are too young to know their own names All I they remember Is the village from which they came I FIRST SMILES COME I And here from the diary Is ig a picture that brings bring the whole thing home to toi I i Americans sitting so safely and se securely securely securely se- se thousands of ot miles mlles away from I the despoiling Hun t At the Casino the weary find the big cheerful room full of light I And the color of the fa nags flaps 8 everywhere c helps to make male them realize that they I are at home at last I The hot meal meat is ready for them and I they take their places quickly and ami very verv soon the warmth and kindness of It all reaches Troches their tired Ure l hearts and they I be begin bepin in to smile and talk to each other After Atter a little the band made up of ot I. I repatriates Who are detailed In Evlan to help helD begins to pl play piny y some gay sUrI sUr I nine French air 1 The children laugh at first but the t older lder ones cannot bear it and you see many tears Then the prefect of or t the e district speaks to them In a friendly stirring fashion welcoming them to their country country coun- coun I try onre onre more an and with all aU tenderness I tha French l language ng speaks l of their BUt sufferings of ot the suffering JQ q France r lJ l- l J- J 1 6 I I of the bravery of their soldiers of ot th the I final victor victory of France Vive Viva ia ra France Trance he shouts In closing and those homeless people respond with a cheer that blinds and chokes you You wonder how they can and yet you jou see that they must It helps them to po go o on Then the playing of the Marseillaise Marseillaise Marseil laise T They ey cannot sing At first It sounds like one great sob from a heartbroken heartbroken heartbroken heart heart- broken people but the ringing i Mar lar- lar chons l becomes a cry of or victory C A Later the little village quiets down It was clear moonlight last night asI as asI asI I walked back to our little hotel and stood for a while on the terrace looking lookIng look look- Ing across at the convent On the gateway was written Patronage Patronage patronage Pat of Jeanne DArc Perhaps She saved France Prance once oncel Germany has not only killed the men of ot France Prance by shooting them down In battle and by bY working the captured soldier prisoners to death I HUNS FIGHT CHILDREN Sho She has also made war on the women women women wo wo- men and ana children who were i I nato nate enough to be living In villages captured by the Huns Runs They were I driven from their homes and left to roam the fields when fields when n they were not put to work for the Boches or outraged by them Now Germany Is clearing up the wreckage She is sending back to Prance France the tubercular the paralyzed the diphtheritic I started down the street writes Mrs Lucas with a boy of 14 who had been digging trenches for the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans for the last five months lie looked delicate probably tubercular or he would not have been allowed to go goI I think Ho IIo was much Interested as they all are to find Americans at work I 1 suppose they had been told 1 by their captors that We e are not going to do anything about this war war TERRIBLE PICTURE Picture your own little year old son put to work digging trenches for German brutes That is bad enough enough- but think of your little daughter and read this This evenings evening's convoy brought a bit bitof bitof bitof of evidence against the enemy a child of ot 15 with a year-old year Boche Doche baby in inThe her arms The little mother looked so badly you jou felt that was why she had hadnot hadnot I not been held Indeed the baby was wasill ill t too o aJ and L. L the grandmother was In Iner butter Iut er er it all Another Ano er w woman man was waa so depressed d fl te b t b tJ t p Q b boys ys b both th P J m e th R x d with t r 7 f f r k s. s ble sores the sores the result of ot unutterable hygienic hy- hy hygienic hy hy- conditions Our ambulance men thought the kiddies had smallpox until a nurse explained ex ex- They were only 8 and 10 years old and in such frightful condition con con- 1 The mother insisted that the paral- paral asis was from terror I dont don't know I should think almost any strange physical phenomenon might come out of what had they all been through And here Is a frightful and touching picture of the children of ot France France- the little ones upon whose future may depend tho the future of ot that great nation There were so many sick children this morning whooping morning whooping cough and bad throats seemed to predominate It makes you shudder the shudder the of and the opportunity for toe spread of disease through all the interior In Interior Interior In- In of France are so grave Diphtheria has given us all aU a big fright but it has been checked now It It is impossible to give you any idea of the size of ot this problem here From the point of view of ot public health I 1 doubt if it there has ever been beena a a. situation of ot larger scope About of the daily thousands are are children who show the effect of three years of dirt limited bathing facilities facilities facilities fa fa- fa- fa or none vermin skin lesions of all kinds We WP look around in our own happy country and see people in gay clothes The tint of health is in their cheeks Contrast that with this poignant etching This morning at the Casino I 1 asKed our photographer if he thought ho hot I could get a picture of ot the returned people people people peo peo- as they sat at the tables We Ve were standing on the tho balcony looking down on them Isis Ills keen photographers photographer's eye took it in and he said It cant can't be done They are all black and nd white black clothes dead white faces You couldn't get it itI it itI I I cannot forget that remark It is isso isso so true Black clothes dead white I One of ot the finest things about these repatriates with a view to our future relations with France is their gratitude toward America and Americans A repatriate asked Mrs 1 Lucas if she was French She said No American To which the Frenchman replied Ah eest la Is meme chose la meme chose madame Ah it is the same thin thing the same thin thing madame |
