Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-09-09

hear" the American woman asked
the captain.
"The children OF France" he re-
piled.
why are they grooming likt that
a Miserable Song OF JOY.
Because they've been in caves all
day. They are happy because with
the French back In this town they
don't have to stay in the caves all
night. too. When you see the caves
where the babies boys, girls and
women have been compelled To live
for two years and a half while the
Germans were here you'll understand.
1t is just as well to visit the caves now
as by day, for they are all dark"
Soon the party. equipped with
shaded lanterns, stepped thru the en-
trance of one of the shattered houses
and down into the cellar. The shades
were taken from the lanterns and the
entrances to the subterranean gal
leries were revealed.
The party entered one of these. The
passageways led from cellar to cellar,
but so intense had the bombardment
been that even the cellars provided
no shelter, and the women and larger
children had followed out with their
hands individual caves, still deeper in
the earth.
New Gas Gags for CHILDREN.
I'VE shall not attempt to enter the
deeper OF these caves" the captain
said. We will merely spread the
word OF your purpose here and in
struct the children to do as you wish
We will gather them south of the
town and then you can undertake the
trip to -. But | beg you to hurry.
Many little children have lost their
lives in the gas attacks We have
made masks for them, but the new
gas. which the Germans use. gags the
children. and they remove their
masks in the excitement despite our
warnings Then they die in convul-
sions."
The captain halted the party. A
poilu lifted his lantern
An aged woman, lying on n cot, her
hair disheveled, her face lined with
care, looked at the party-stared with
startled eyes of flaming Goals. She
crawled back into the darkness. Two
children lay at her feet. not yet
asleep.
What War Means to Women.
The Germans took her two daugh-
ters," the captain said. lone was 10
and the -~other was %. They kept
tHtIl pTiSoHtIS III IL cave On tne OlHtT
side of the town.-The girls endured
about to be born to them, when they
died Whether by disease.
this dirty wretchedness or by their
own hand, ! do not know.
But don't wonder at that, madame
More than hundred girls had like
experiences. Others were killed by
bayonets because they refused the ad-
vances of German soldiers. You'll see
some babies born within the last
eighteen months. Many others died.
This is a terrible place to live.
Carried Off Boy Babies.
you'll not see any baby boys. The
Germans sent the baby boys to Ger
many, altho some of them have
French fathers. The mothers were al
lowed only to keep the girl babies"
While the able-bodied women
worked in the fields some miles away,
ten or fifteen children were placed
in charge of each of the aged or in
capacitated women in the town.
Usually these nurse women were
grandmothers over 60 years old.
The party found some babies 2
years old and less, who had never
been out of their subterranean birth
places. They were covered with scales,
their skin was red with constant rash.
Xheir eyes were caked. Their nurses
feared to bring them suddenly into
the sunlight, because of-the danger
OF blindness.
Everywhere there was vermin. skin
and intestinal diseases, malnutrition,
and wide opened eyes of months of
horror
Children Like Lambs.
other part of town, the party found