The Sentinel Leader. (Sentinel, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, June 21, 1918 Page: 3 of 10
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FEEDING REFUGEES
> ON FRENCH TRAIN
American Red Cross in Paris
Quickly Answers Emer-
gency Call.
HOMELESS LAUGH ANO JOKE
No Bitterness, No Complaint, No Des-
pair Among People, Many of
Whom Were Refugees for Sec-
ond and Third Time.
Paris. “A thousand refugees from
the east of Amiens will puss through
I Acheres at seven o’clock tonight.
■ They will not have had any supper,
1 *°,ne of them may not have had uny
1 lunch. There is no food there and no
I facilities for feeding them. Can you
1 help us?”
That was the telephone message
I from the French minister of the In-
I terlor which came to the Amerlcun
I Red Cross at noon one day during the
I -German drive on Amiens, nnd the an-
lewer was “Yes. Emergency mes-
| sages are no surprise to us these days."
■ The food was ordered out of the
I warehouses and a score of volunteers
I rounded up.
They started at six o’clock the same
•evening. One five-ton truck loaded
With tinned beef and condensed milk,
rflgs, prunes, chocolate and heaps of
[huge loaves of war bread; two car-
loads of midnight volunteers, stenog-
jraphers, bureau chiefs, drivers and
canteen workers set out on their way
o bring help to the homeless refu-
gees.
They rolled out through the resl-
lential district of Paris, out past the
ortifications, bumped through grimy
to help us establish our tables on the
cinders between the tracks, and pile
the food where It could conveniently
be passed Into the train.
They unloaded bread, scraped
cheese, opened tins of "bully beef,"
knocked the tops off the boxes of figs
nnd prunes and made plans to feed a
thousand people In half an hour. But
somewhere off In the silent country
the train, packed full of exiles, was
standing on a side track. It was after
two in the morning when the long
train with its 28 carriages filled with
refugees came Into Acheres.
A few windows were opened; tired
faces looked out and voices asked, un-
interestedly, "Where are we?” and
were surprised to be told that they
were near Parts. The train was on
Its way, they said to Tulle In the Cor-
reze department, in the south of
France.
“Will they treat us well there?” an
old woman asked and they, In the full-
ness of their Ignorance, not daring to
say otherwise, answered “Yes.”
It was a short half hour. They
carried them bread, they filled the old
woman’s apron with figs and prunes,
they gave milk to the children, meat
to the old men, cheese to everybody.
They absorbed cakes of sweet choco-
late in
some were grizzled old fnrme.w .m*
era were city folk, obviously not used
to third class travel. There were fam-
alles of three generations huddled to-
gether on their way—somewhere.
Some clutched precious umbrellas,
some carried bird cages, some alarm
clocks. Some of them had dogs, some
had cats. But the puthos of it all
was not on the surface. Some of them
Quietly told that they were refugees
for the second and third time und
laughed and Joked when they woke up.
There was no bitterness, no com«
plaint, no despair.
Bread Pile Fell Away.
The huge pile of bread fell away, I
the fig boxes were emptied, the tins !
were all handed into the trains. The
engine shrieked a shrill French whis-
tle and the train pulled away. The
rescuers were in the silence of the >
night. One of many thousands of ref- j
ugees had had one dreary midnight j
meal far from home—one lonely meal j
out of hundreds, perhaps thousands,
before them.
A train load of wounded from the |
front Joggled In ten minutes later. The
men nurses carried water through the !
carriages swiftly and silently. Then
the Americans handed out the rem-
nants of their stores of figs and the i
train slipped awny again. Behind them
could be heard the dull booming of the
barrage guns about Paris, nnd the vis-
itors knew that another air raid was
on. They waited until the barrage
stopped, then they headed back
through the defenses of the capital.
There was a faint light as they rode
back through the forest. They could
LIQUID FIRE MACHINES CAPTURED BY AMERICANS IN RAID
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BATTERY OF ITALIAN ROYAL MARINES ON PIAVE FRONT
a rapid and mysterious man-, UUUUKu me mresi. mey coum
ner. home of them were the much be- see clumps of yellow daffodils utterly
petticoated women of Picardy and1 oblivious of war.
uumpuu inrougn grimy
’aetory suburbs and on into the open j Systematic Strippinci Of IndUStrV
country Whcrp flip lPV*»l nlnino cfentoK
GERMANS GRAB
ALSACE PLANTS
■ountry where the level plains streteh
>ff into infinite distance, broken only
>y interminable rows of slim pop-
ars.
Then suddenly without warning,
here emerged from the forest into a
lack smudge of railway tracks, cin-
ers, flat-cars, passenger cars, sheds,
Iatforms, warehouses, cranes—-
cheres. It was the junction point,
here the thousands of refugees were
) stop for half an hour.
Saluted With One Arm.
Lieutenant M- met us there, sa
Before the Day of Reck-
oning.
ted stiffly with his one arm, and did
le honors of the station. A group of
eary, muddy “permissionaires,” most
' thpm over forty, Just back from
le Champagne front, were routed out
INDIGNATION IS WIDESPREAD
Even Officials Responsible to Kaiser's
Government Forced by Public to
Give Voice to Emphatic
Protests.
CAMOUFLAGED BIG GUN
ounted on a specially constructed
oad carriage this big French 400
meter gun is ready to bang away
ie German forces. It Is exceeding-
ell camouflaged to prevent detee-
by Boche aerial observers. Guns
size did good work by mowing
i at long range the close-packed
Js of Germans as they advanced
tie latest offensive.
Amsterdam.—German carpetbaggers
are overrunning Alsace to grab all
property confiscated by the state un-
der various pretexts. Indignation
among the people Is widespread, and
even officials responsible to the kai-
ser’s government are forced by public
opinion to give voice to emphatic pro-
tests.
Alsace Is a great industrial center
und one of Its principal Industries
is the manufacture of textiles. Most
I of the textile factories in Alsace were
I taken over by the state as a war meus-
I ure- As some of the stockholders were
Frenchmen, the mills, it was alleged,
were partly enemy alien property. So
j the stute took charge of the mills and
j prepared to liquidate them. This liqui-
j datiou was carried out recently.
Alsatian business men and capital-
i.sts had formed a corporation to buy
J the mills in an effort to keep them in
Alsatian hands. Even city administra-
; tions, such as the municipality of
i Muhlhausen. where a number of fac-
I tories are situated, bought stock In
| this corporation. The name of the
corporation is the United Alsatian Tex-
| tile Factories.
Forbidden by Berlin.
But it was decided In Berlin that the
Alsatians should not be allowed to buy
i what was practically their own. An-
| other concern, called the Blelchroeder
I group, was more successful. Their
bid for the property was accepted by
, the government, while the Alsatian of- I
I fer was rejected. It was announced
i the Blelchroeder bid was preferred be-
cause it accepted state supervision as |
one of the conditions of the sale. Baron
von Stein, undersecretary of state, in
ernment’s decision was made know*
by Mayor Zopfel. He said not only
had the offer of the Alsatian corpora-
tion, of which the city of Muhlhausen
itself was a component part, been re-
jected by the government but he also
had been informed on good authority
all the other Alsatian factories to be
liquidated would be sold to “old-Ger>
man” concerns beyond the Rhine.
Ruthlessness Condemned.
This attempt to Germanize Alsace
by ruthless Industrial methods was
condemned by several members of the
city council. Councillor Emmel de-
nounced as a subterfuge the statement Th,„ . , ,
of Undersecretary von Stein, who had Plave front P ^all-caliber guns of the Italian Royal marines under a remarkable camouflage on the
said the Blelchroeder offer had been
accepted because It was the more
favorable one. The speaker saw In
the government’s action a systematic
effort to take Alsatian property away
from Alsatians.
The Blelchroeder group, the success-
ful bidder, is headed by the banking
house of Blelchroeder in Berlin. Th«
original Blelchroeder was Prince Bis-
marck’s financial man and his heirs
are still in control of the banking
house. Old Blelchroeder was not very
scrupulous In his financial methods,
but this did not prevent Bismarck
from conferring the title of nobility
upon his moneymaker. This was one
of the greatest Jokes perpetrated by
Bismarck.
However, Baron Blelchroeder’s heirs
are still barons and their influence in
the highest circles is still formidable.
It seems they had little trouble in ob-
taining the Alsatian properties at fav-
orable terms—favorable to themselves,
for to them state supervision means
supervision by friends.
SONG DIRECTOR FOR A, E. F.
MILITARY RAILROAD HAS RIGHT OF WAY
* GAS MASK SQUAD FINDS
LEAK IN AMMONIA PIPE
Cincinnati.—The first run
made by the “gas mnsk squad”
of the local fire department was
In response to an explosion in
an Ice plant. The firemen used
their gas masks in locating a
»uli oiviu, uuuersecrerary of state, in ,£ *ea*£ *n an a,1)raonia pipe. Not
defending the government’s action be- * on,y hnd the fumes filled the
fore the main committee of the reichs- * '* *-----,L- -
tag, said the Blelchroeder group had
offered a million marks more than the
Alsatian corporation. Besides, the Al-
satians had refused to subscribe to the
conditions, including state supervision
of management.
Consternation and Indignation
reigned at the meeting of the city
council of Muhlhausen when the gov-
plant, making it Impossible for
anyone to stay In the building
without a gas mask, but pa-
irons in n drug store across the
street hnd to get out into the
open air.
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-DIER SAVES KING
fan Lieutenant Tells Stirring
Story of War.
If Whole Army He Was Selected
po Command Bodyguard of
Monarch.
Igor, Me.—Among soldiers recent-
[>m European battlefields who
through here was the officer
Kvas selected to command the
jdetalled to escort King Peter of
to a place of safety when the
km bombardment made it neces-
|>r the monarch to quit the royal
In Belgrade. This officer is
Ravle Yovanovltch, a man of
j figure and courtly manner, who
|upoif his tunic the Insignia of
der of the White Eagle, which
Ivalent to the British Dlstin-
I Service Order, and Order of
kite (■•tar, which corresponds to
tile V ictoria Cross, besides several
gold liars bestowed for service in the
Balkan wars.
Lieutenant Yovanovitch’s narrative
of the country’s sufferings and despoil-
ment at the hands of the Teutonic
hordes is dramatic and pitiful, a vivid
word picture. In very good English, of
the gallant fight of the Serbs against
overwhelming force. When It became
evident that Belgrade must fall prep-
arations were made for safe conduct
of King Peter out of the city, and out
of the whole Serbian army Lieutenant
Yovanovltch was selected to command
the body guard, which was of his own
choosing—veterans with whom he had
been associated in the Balkan cam-
paigns.
Austrian shells were crashing and
thundering In the outskirts of beauti-
ful Belgrade as the guard of honor
drew up at the palace gates, and al-
ready the enemy was posting machine
guns on roofs within range of the pal-
aoe. As the king was escorted from
the palace to his carriage a hall of
bullets swept the plaza, and several
of the guards were wounded, including
"Send the best song director avail-
able,” cabled General Pershing to the
powers that be in Washington, so
Washington picked W. Stanley Haw-
kins of Albany to send over there. He
has been the song director at Camp
Dix, where his stirring march melody,
“Keep the Glow in Old Glory,” im-
hued the men with the martial spirit i
I he tanning of ostrich skins is one that will lead them into battle, and he-
fore going to Wrlghtstown he was the
song director at the Plattsburg officers’
training camp.
run right through the house on 'theway^o “the front UneT*
EXAMINING A CAPTURED GERMAN SOLDIER
if w
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of the nev South Afrfican industries.
Lieutenant Yovanovltch. hut the king
escaped Injury. When the party had I _ ---
reached a place of snfety the kinc Talismans and Amulets,
sent for the lieutenant, who came h..r Th? trUth ‘S that deep d°wn ln the
fell, faint from the loss of blood a ^natUr<> “ °f US there ,s
the monarch’s feet. Then and th ? VCertaln for the occult, of
did King Peter bestow the orders^hat m however’ oar *,frher Intelligence
breast Lieutenant Yovanovltch will wk ! tt
return to the battlefields 'Mule the word mascot has long
been common in Provence and Gas-
cony to denote something which
Girls to Do Farm Work. brings good fortune to a person or
Los Angeles, Cal.—An army of 1 935 household, it Is only within the last
high-school girls of this city have vol- 30 yenrs or 80 ,hat hns Pawed Into
unteered to harvest crops and will be ('on,tnon use ln Britain. It owed Its
ready for call by the Woman’s Land lntroductlon largely to Edmund Au-
Army of America after June 21, when l,ran’8 well-known comic opera “La
the local schools close. By that time Ma8cotte-”
the high-school farmerettes expect to ®ut only the wonl *s modern. The
have at least 3,000 In their ruuka. nsp of ‘“Usmans, amulets and charms.
---- j which were really prototypes of the
mascot, goes back to a very remote
age. The ancient Egyptians wore
amulets fashioned In the shape of
gods, men, animals, and insects. The
in the shape of beetles often
Could Not Speak Khaki.
Greensburg. Fa.—’Khaki’’ proved
too much for the crack spellers in ___.
Smlthton school. Forty-nine of fifty atones
words were spelled correctly by the ' found ln Egyptian tombs gave cour-
whole class but everyone misspelled . age to the wearer. Figures of frogs I
the name of the doughboy’s uniform, were also held ln particularly high re-
I pute.
toll of the movements^
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