Show CRIED FOR FOH TIIE THE CAVES iio am ol 01 sn 1 1 I want to go in tile the cellar shrill cries from born jean and marlo mario ind felix and hundreds ot of other french youngsters huddled together in little frightened groups answered the booming 0 of the big guns the crackle ot of the aej an the intermittent hubof hum of a boche lroche airplane the children were gathered in tha did aid tort fort on the hill overlooking a own very close to the front where aie he red cross takes care of them he cathedral bell had bad tolled tor for five minutes al ni though you could hardly ear it tor for the roar ot of the guns guna and lie he siren had bad blown then the peole in the town below had scurried D ther their cellars for that was a warn varn g of 0 a raider coming hut but up on the hilll hill there were no ihnes to go to and the children burg to the skirts ot of the nurses in j terror in the cellar they would have been quite content and unafraid for more months than they i could remember they had been living leglu in cellars in the little shell swept villages villager near the town and sometimes in dugouts in the hills but the red cross and the prefect had taken them away from their homes home i end now there were no cellars I 1 A dozen little girls crowded into ione one big bed avith with the bedclothes over your head it was dark perhaps ithe the tomb bomb get you there halt half an hour seemed ten hours i 1 then tho the guns stopped firing and it was quiet again the boche had ax j rone ore only the restless searchlights still guarded the sky below there in the town a tenement house had been cut in two A had come all the way from s salonica SalonS al onlea ca two thousand miles away to see its his wife and three children but the german bombs found them first on the hill the children were safe aphis this time you cant always be sate este from bombs when the boche carries them but the children are alwais sate safe from guns and gas and disease and filth and hunger so nuch safety the red cross can and loes joes give them tor for the sake of tomorrow in france |