Show bombardments cannot eve drive this woman back bach she thinks coffee for soldiers more important than safety the following extracts are taken from a letter written by a red cross canteen worker helen mcelhone an american and college graduate now located in a 0 district almost con scantly under bombardment bombardi nent foyer des allies illar le duc things Ti lings look very black to ine inc I 1 ani discouraged discourage nt at the hit big outlook of affairs tind and also at my small doings but bin it may be the blackness that hint vonies before dawn let us hope so our men certainly need help now ns as rauch much as the I 1 am beginning to see those who have been at the front in fit fact I 1 nin beginning to see gee some soine of the results of this life they tire sick an and and worse things have haipt ned to in them thein sev eral have mid alt ah we oak ask Is to got get to the front and do what we have to to do anything la Is better than this life this morning we had more Ainer lenns than I 1 have hare seen belore at one time one came up to me here as I 1 was drawing drun ing coffee from a big its ai fast as ai I 1 could till ill cup culls and pointing to tits ills pipe said 1 1 I said bald do you want ant some soine tobacco 7 ile he seemed st stunned untied fur for a moment ami then said do you know it nearly gave me a qt fit tu to har you speak rais kis lish I 1 heard a woman speak english to in give lie ile said he hod had been walking about in the cold since four lext night lie find a hotel or a bright light because of cure course everything aery thine la Is closed I 1 and d darkened on account of the bombardments bard rd ments the americans americana art are ery fond of ham sandwiches they eat cat much more than the french soldiers and when they first came caine in and ordered six eggs apiece it caused consternation ster nation throughout the land the thing of nf all Is to hear the cammies grandly urging these wealthy anglish girls to keep the lie c hank oh en keep the change I 1 we start atari the ilia da 10 at live he und and work continuously until nine when three thice treah fresh bellee relle e lid its at he five we KO go on oil for tile liis evening shift from five fhe to eight and it Is ohp most exciting and exhausting if tile the shifts there Is t a certain ehno when hen they come down on us like m flood fight or tn ten deep around the hn counter and three or four hundred altogether in this little ronni an eager and tired no n the forgoing foregoing letter indicates ehni our soldiers look to the red cross crosa canteen as an oasis oala in a lesert desert they rhey would not have it it it were not for or your red cross |