Show Red Cross Cable Paints Sordid Picture of War-Torn Europe Contributions for Keller Of Suffering Among War Chaotic conditions among the refugees in France fleeing before advancing German armies were described in a cable received recently by the American Red Cross from one of its European describing scenes during a trip from where he was formerly to where the American Red Cross European staff is now The cable was forwarded to Merrill chairman of the of the Red for publication It third and fourth tidal waves over-sweeping France are evacuees from Mediterranean region and Parisian districts crowding towns Inland to the Spanish Extreme chaos caused by Dutch and Jewish refugees fleeing Paris by every possible are fighting for room on south bound trains from Paris and Bordeaux I counted fifty-seven serious auto mainly due to tion of sleepless drivers on three or four days and unable to find rest French Red Cross units along route doing j magnificent Unbroken line of trucks and automobiles on J all roads from Paris and I Saw woman harnessed to high-wheeled carts whereon lay I deathly ill fifteen-year-old cooking j Had pulled cart four days with l two younger children walking i In another wagon saw 1 mother milking goat while year old girl fed it clover picked along evening saw ands camped gypsy style with as tents or sleep ing under wagons with nil able livestock ling camps Population of largely because of Belgian Around Chartres Cathedral Square every yard covered S In most other town En-with refugees and possessions as route It was amazing to see highways jammed with panicky evac-uese while old peasants in fields alongside continued cultivation of un concerned by tide sweeping past Red Cross efforts ap predated The working unceasingly for fifty America that French civilians are grateful for American material tell them any aid whether will civilians to survive desperate Upon the mercy of America depends the lives of many of Give to the Red Cross your own local chapter and help these victims of |