Show WHERE YANKEES ENTER FRANCE mid word picture of port of dobar debarkation bar kation for american troops SIDE IS DESCRIBED miracles worked he hera re in a year ty ly american energy mystery surrounds flight and return of allied sea craft by GERTRUDE LYNCH A french port this Is not only a port ot of debarkation for our coops troops it Is a port where anany inen are pernin perma bently stationed in various military and naval duties it Is a n center or of av lating and seaplane stations for vel fare and hospital activities dock va k Is done by labor battalions numbering i many nien men ifer here e the shore days of inen of the patrol and convoy fleets are spent low how is tills his port to rare care for such an influx american en irgy can answer the question aniell pan energy does docs cinemas and vaude villes tire are plentiful n theater leased by tho the r Y M C A providing the he best entertainment ilia town can boast the principal street Is lined with will hops where parisian products are censored to suit stilt provincial tastes to these have been added a multiplicity of goods goodo to tempt tile keepsake and souvenir wants of tile strangers along the streets that lead front from tile the ahtes to the suburbs tire are bardques baraques hara bara ques or covered push pushcarts carts extending for a MII or more ire are sold koli to milars bailors bai lors free with their orbney nail and not too toe well vell endowed wit he powers ut selection along the streets tho hie ever dver yarling never hever changing I 1 cers of the army w annl navy marines ina rines english commies tommies Tom mies les men unit and women of the Y BI 0 A and nil tile tho tied cross ri convalescents casuals moroccans cans at al pr 1 lans senegalese sitting in rows row nodding fezzes and liti hashing shing teeth peasants arom roin many provinces ench each with n y dress and monks ovel ane son sen wall Is in always a curlus curious 0 US crowd of onlookers ers in less than a ameter your they have seen first a i few ship loads then more and still more until now tile the weekly of thou hou sands causes ll 11 little comment let heinle look out I 1 ilear II 11 nr the conversation of two nn an american soldier ller and nd a french bolln polln who iwho lean ion over the wall and look down to the landing philes where a shuart naphtha launch la Is bringing to shore nn an admiral and ills his st staff fr the american speaks suppose tho the to do get parts what of that it if they pet get london that hope they dont for id like to see tho the old burgs before I 1 go BO linck to the farni farm but that wont make inake any difference so long lanras as we have it a foothold in 16 the harbor nil fill wo a ask ark let cicinio look out paris and london they hrent arent the war not on your tintype the french gollu who understands understand s nil all tho lie english but tile tintype allusion allus 1 13 looks amazed ania zed then relieved lie he find the provincial iden that paris and tendon london were the war 6 over the seawall sett ivall the observer looks town down on tile the harbor town tito the way lends by winding stairways or of stone and slanting roofs from it rises the tang of brine ining mingled led with the odors of warehouses oil and those hose thousand and one smells that are ns as much a part of tile the port as are storage warehouses docks and quays basins 4 and breakwaters beyond the eye travels far to tile the beauty and mystery of the ships and tho the magic of tile the sen sea descend by one of these there ninny many routes mutes you and yourself overwhelmed with irith dirt and coll contusions fUSIons here thousands of negro stevedores work like it colony of big black ants there are arc squads of and portuguese sailors Bai lors months strike the ear it Is a babel of foreign sounds every H inch ch of this water front Is covered wit I 1 cn ena togy docking construction I 1 loading ding und and unloading transportation re repairs mrs Ainer america leu tins lias worked here in ct year inside and outside the ho breakwaters are fleets of ocean traffic transports rig con convoys V 0 y s torpedo destroyers patrol and fishing v bonts boats salt steam craft of every possible re lution to the sea pen ono one day you inay count collat scores of ships find the lie next huni hundreds reds mya alys te tery ry covers tile the flight mill and return of those III es e shuttles of tind steel follow the splendid ronda roads to arlt tany by fragrant pasture lands you will and flit air where american tire lire hidden guarding ilia rn trance of the Hai english glish helping with convoy tind and patrol to inake it le U bout boat n nullity welfare work on theany lie any back stop a at ono one of the tearing housea of tile llie troops I 1 let t us hoose choose the Ilar racks I 1 called c there tire lu rc it ling lias housed troops once no napoleon po leonA lay ilay field lic fore As you stand nt at tile tie door of the Y M 0 A canteen your view takes lit in n R vast held field nil fill I 1 ID monotones mono tones brown earth brown touts tents brown men inen against u of green t rean under a bowl of silvery blue the flags are lying flying free ree over tile french ca mm men rind gird to stretch their sea ron legs are drilling playing ball running runn lii walking tle the bands gny gay so great la Is the lie rush for the canteen supplies that lint tile doors have to be closed frequently to facilitate the waiting A bugle note not sounds pounds high and clear instantly every inan on oil that lini immense newe parade ground Is nt at attention chiw ln lit Marselli alse and tito the str still Il antler lire played fathers find in others ask what wel vel lure fure work Is 19 being done nt at tills port for their sons tito tho YM Y M 0 C A Is busy it abins first to ottri lct and then hold tl boy until corrupt influences tire nullified |