The Washington herald., 1917-11-29
HUMAN WRECKS SENT TO EVAN;
VICTIMS OF HUN BARBARITIES
dren Forced to Suffer Heartless Crueties
at the Hands of Prussian Captors.
Copyright. Underwood & Underwood. Ny.

driven from their homes and left to
roam the fields-when they were not
put 10 work for the Boches or out
ragged by them.
Now Germany IS clearing up the
wreckage. She Is sending back to
France the tubercular, the para
lyzed. the diphtheritic.
Il started down the street." writes
Mrs. Lucas. with a boy Of IA who
had been digging trenches for the
Germans for the last five months. He
looked delicate. probably tubercular,
or he would not have been allowed
to go, l think. He was much in
terested. as they all are, to find
Americans at work. I suppose they
had been told by their captors that
We are not going to do anything
about this war"
Picture your own little 1i-year-old
son put to work digging trenches for
German brutes. That is bad enough
BUT THINK OF YOUR LITTLE
DAUGHTER AND READ THIS:
This evenings convoy brought a
bit of evidence against the enemy: a
child of Is with a year-old Boche
baby in her arms. The little mother
looked so badly. you felt that was
why she had not been held; indeed.
the baby was ill too; and the grand
mother was in utter despair about 1t
ALL
Another woman was SO depressed
becaUse of her two little boys. both
paralyzed and both covered with hor-
rible sores-the result OF unutterable
hygienic conditions.
Have Horrible Diseases.
"Our ambulance men thought the
kiddies had smallpox until a nurse
explained. They were only s and 10
years old and in such frightful con-
dition.
The mother insisted that the paral-
ysis was from terror. l don't know.
1 should think almost any strange
physical phenomenon might come out
of what they have been through"
And here is frightful and touching
picture of the children of France-the
depend the future of that great ma
tion.
There were so many sick children
this morning-whooping cough and bad
throats seemed to predominate II
Jou Snuuuti-ltc
of epidemics and the opportunity for
the spread of disease all through the
interior of France are so grave.
"Diphtheria has given us all big
fright, but 1t has been checked now.
1T is impossible to give you any
idea of the size of this problem here.
From the point of view of public
health. ! doubt If there has eyer been
afk -
About $50 OF the daily thousands
are children, who show the effects of
three years of dirt. limited bathing
facilities or none. vermin, skin le-
sions of all kinds"
We look around in our own happy
country and see people in gay clothes.
The tint OF health is in their cheeks.
Contrast that with this poignant
etching:
This morning at the Casino I asked
our photographer IL he thought he
could get a picture of the returned
people as they sat at the tables. We
We're standing on the balcony looking
down on them. His keen photog-
rapher's eye took it in and he said
1T CAN'T BE DONE. THEY ARE
ALL BLACK AND wHITE-BLACK
CLOTHES. DEAD-WHITE FACES.
YOU COULDN'T GET IT.
Il cannot forget that remark. 1t is
so true. Black clothes, dead-white
faces. hundreds of them. You can't
get them, and Ipu can't FORGET
them
One OF the fipd things about these
repatriates, WI view to our future
relations with lance. is their grati-
tude toward America and Americans.
A repatriate asked Mrs. Lucas IL
she was French. She said: mo.
American"
To which the Frenchman replied:
"Ah,. c'est la meme chose, la meme
chose. madame"
"Ah, 1t is the same thing. the same
thing madame"