Show Mother Wanders anders Into Battle Babies Die De to Roar of Cannon c b o I J r r. RL l o Th 90 Il I- J ow I d r r I z fc 8 f t K 1 r f 4 f x iJ u v t r f t raJ i t. t J t I t J JJ d R t- I I we t v 4 I 1 d 1 S i I J. J n i f 1 V t. t A I 11 Af 1 i 1 jt J i v rt v J x i r rf f 1 J r f l r i f tj n i L t A jP C I. I 1 x i i- i r ri J h I f i s l i J f r f e t. t 1 t t f F lit ij t i 14 Ji I it fj j 0 1 LIc fi R. R tl f 1 Av v. v J. J t fiA f- f 4 iA y r Jt J Y i t h fU t. t l z It C t h tr 1 tn i t. t H f l lC t t. t L j I I J L 7 fl i r iH t iv i- i J Jc v i x i c i. i xv J V r 4 m d h T a l t i K KI t f fv w we r. f-r. fri iV w v. v I I 4 L t f. I e ti 1 ft M 1 4 i s F t X 1 ir x s o.-s w 0 of 1 v t If f t 4 jI e o. o t i Pt J J A a If r t. t l' l f Ii I w l 1 t 1 i il l- l i l t Y l i J 1 c. c i I Staff SpecIal I S Ix i J rt Mrs Alma Auna Gibbs war refugee and two P of her children BERKELEY Cal Cat Sept 22 unescorted and with three small children one one of them only a a. babe babe Mrs Irs Anna Gibbs of ot this dt city walked unknowingly into the thc trick trIckS of or a n. terrific battle on the Russo German while fleeing from front froma fronta a bullet riddled city and on the tho bloody field one of her children perished rh Then rhen n. n when hastening desperately from tho country on foot without food rood money or shelter another child died of ex ox- ox Here Hero Is her story I On tho the first da day of August Mrs Gilbs Gibbs b began Jan gan I 1 was living JIving comfortably in Hus Russia la where I had gone to 10 I 1 spend the summer slimmer with m my brother in law I I am an nn American citizen Is one of the tho frontier towns between Germany an and Hu Hussla la and fate selected It a aa j tho the point where the forces of or of those t two 0 mighty na nations should first enCounter encounter each other oIlier I lOt awoke to find the town lown wild Cannon Can non thundered In the distance Now ow and amid then a great ent Iron ball bail would rage ruge through h tho town tipping over houses and nJ churches Somewhere Some we knew a battle was on Unfamiliar with the thc country I could think of flight ht only toward time the west I hJ hastily dressed sed m my three children Cur children Cur Curtis lis is 7 7 Orion Anna Anita 4 4 and Martha 3 3 and and fled lied from the town I I was wai eo so excl excited tOl that tha t I rJ did Id not notice where I W was I-I I going nut But the smoke ap appeared appeared ap- ap P. P to din cling more dodd closel closely to the tho earth parth as we went along and the sound of the thc firing gret rew more mono distinct Men Ien were run run- ning rant past U us Bullets whistled and sang an anns as ns they passi-d passi J. J I had led Id m my children children- whom I longed to sa c save Into Into the VCr very cr heart of or a pitched d battle bittle My y Go God woman woman What are you Jou doIne do do- Ine hero a soldier exclaimed When hen I 1 ItoM told toM him that I was WIlS trying to save e my rn children his face grew pale palt- You are In the thc center of ot the storm I h ht he exclaimed Come with me mc He led us to the Russ Russian inn rifle rIne pits I where the soldiers were firing It watt was our only chance of s safety fet All through the day we wC stayed there afraid to move mO end and well Into the nl night ht Curtis had been III HI and I noticed that he lie grew ow r w weaker as ns tho the hours wore yore on ott Just st as dawn broke on th the tho battlefield he hc Jl F passed e awa away I could stay there no longer longer- GatherIng Gather Gather- in Ing his silent litti form In my arms erms 1 I led lcd back to m my other oIlier two children children chil chil- dren following The Thc town was nearly deserted de tIe- s I 1 went to an undertakers undertaker's hop shop ann and an found rO tho the owner awn away With m my own hands I took a a. coffin rind laid m my m son sonIn sonin on In It it II Two old men helped m me mc carry It to m my laws brother house where we wc covered rI It with a scant mantle of earth In the tho garden Once more I fled from w walking with willI Thy iny other two children for four days sleeping beneath the stars and getting food wherever I could Ju Just t as al we wc reached leached on A August t 7 7 i. Orlan Orhan Anna m my second child died from epo exposure ure We Va burled buried her In a n. little Russian lIne Rus sian cemetery with willi nothing but a rude cross to mark tho grave c Still penniless but with only one child to earn care for tor now how I pushed on to lo FI Finland nil Here Mrs Mim Maria Louise Bruce of ot Ito Hoi i boken X N. J. J helped me on to Stock holm where tit tho tha American consul sen gereral gen ger eral ral gave S1 me tee enough money to cross t tl tliAtha Atha Atlantic It I I C. C I |