Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1917-12-27


than the cabled dispatches which we
I.cs@s,.oaJ are accustomed to read under the
IS2u vague date line. Somewhere in
lOA2AVy France"
Many of these narratives have been
brought by men and women who under the aus
pices of the American Red Cross, have been inves-
tigating conditions created by the invasion of the
Hun. The range of vision of these investigators
extends from the battle front to the cottage hun
dreds of miles away where wars misery-more IN
sidious than bombs on the fighting front-has pene-
trated.
Woven together these accounts make composite
story of devastation and suffering on the part OF
noncombatants comparable with the torture en-
dured by the soldiers in the trenches; of refugees
staring blankly at cratered areas where villages
once fourished; of thousands of children, too
young to understand, crying for mothers who can
not hear their cries. of children poisoned by gas
bombs thrown from German mortars; of emaciated
children sent by hundreds from behind the German
line; of crippled soldiers to re-educate and Of
civilian men and women to comfort and provide
with the necessaries of life-a story OF battling
against disease and Of the heroism of mercy
Sometimes the cable supplements tales told by
returned travellers A, day or two ago, the war
council of the American Red Cross received cable
gram from the Paris headquarters of that organiza
don containing simple statement of everyday
occurrence the French frontier. yet graphic in
its portrayal OF phase Of wars frightfulness.
It read: .,.s,=e:. .''t''
- = The Red Cross At Evian. ,
There arrived last week at Evian, where the
repatries from France and Belgium are received
back into France. train loaded WIN Belgian chill
dren. There were $50 of them, thin, sicky, alone.
all between ages of four and twelve. children ,of
mem who refvsed.to work. for the .Gerrnapssabd OF
mothers who qet their children 60 rather than let
them starve. They poured of the train little ones
clingng to the Oldest ones, gfeAss scrying, boys
| trying to cheer. They had come all the long way
alone. On the platform were. the Red Cross work.
rect them, doctors and nurses With ean6n.
lsnces for the little sicf 6nesIwefe Waiting out
side the station. The children poured out Of the
statioh marcifgn along the street bhopting sAaeAt
meat 1--WE are going TO have meat to the Casino.
where they were given square meal the first In
many months Again and again, while they ate,
Ethey broke spontaneously into songs In sFrsnch
Eagainst the German songs which they had evidently
learned in secret. The Red Cross doctor examined
them. TheireHttle clawlike hands were significant
their undernourfshed bodies but the doctor said
eve have them in time A few weeks of proper
feeding and they will pull up y
Evian is French resort on Lake Geneva. and
every day one thousand homeless people arrive
there, 60 per cent of whom are children. Thirty
per cent of the older people die the first month
from exhaustion. They were once the occupants
of happy homes in northern France. The Huns
invaded their country. swept on past their homes
and left them behind the enemy line. The invaders
now their masters impressed them into labor and
transported thousands of them to work in German
fields and factories. Those who are returned by
are all that are left of these men and women and
children-manhood and womanhood sapped until
the vital spark is almost out and no longer of use
as German captives, sent back to die or to be
cared for in their helpless condition by their own
people from whom they had been ruthlessly taken
away in their health and strength.
Hope for kaIsers Victims.
Thanks to the American Red Cross coming to
the assistance Of the overburdened French agen-
cies for mercy, there is hope for these unfortun-
ita1 cOnvalescent home
for children at Evian, the Red Cross is operating
an ambulance service for the returning repatries.
Ten automobiles are in commission for handling
sick and inf1rm persons, and tuberculosis nos
pital near by Is planned When the returning re-
patries reach the railroad station and have been
cheeringly greeted by crowds Of compatriots they
are taken in charge by Red Cross workers. Nour-
ishment is provided and medical attention be-
slowed Baths are made available and fresh cloth
ing is supplied According to American eye wit
nesses of scenes at the railway station at Evian,
there men In the ranks who have suffered
broken arms the bones of which have been set by
the Germans 30 that the hand Is turned the wrong
way. They present horrible deformity. denoting
form of cruelty which excuses itself on the
ground that the man. should he ever regain his
former strength, will be unfit for military duty.
In many of these cases American Red Cross doc
tors have been put to the doubly painful task Of
asain breaking the arm and resetting it. so as
to remove the terrible deformity purposely in
ficted. sk :n5i5f "a
William Allen White OF Kansas ana denrys - Al
den, who is prominent in the public life Of the
same state are among the Red Cross workers (
who recently have returned from tours Of inspec-
ton in France According to their statements 1t -
scarcely possible to exaggerate the suffering
brought upon the civilian population OF the coun-
try; suffering. however, that Is being alleviated
to the greatest Iossible extent by the American
BED Cfpss, which II sending Its experts It's army
of volunteers and IT. treasure without stint Ac-
eordng to Mr.. White, the real work Of the war, 20
%np Avno n will h CnEf10d bv
the Red Cross In France this wintsr. Not only