The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1918-05-22
EXPERIENCES
RELATED
BY Private Suffer of Going
over The Top to the Clover
port People. Served With
Canadian Army Two Years.
Civilian Gives Interesting
Figures of Red Cross Work.

Priv. Suffer, an American boy who
served two years in the 24th Battal-
ion of the Canadian Array. related to
the people of Cloverport as they weic
gathered in the Bap'ist chui Gil
Thursday evening, some interesting
experiences which happened while he
was going over the top i'll fighting
the Germans.
Priv. Suffer was sent here in the
interest of the Red Cross War Fund
Drive and he started out by saying
that he was not a public speaker.
"The first time | ever made a speech
in my life was up here at Irvington,
KY, the other night and | was lots
more scared than when | went over
the top the first time, and from that
he went right off into telling of the
numerous battles hehad participated
in and he gave a very humorous &C
count OF how he had killed two Ger
mans in one battle. On his left coat
sleeve Priv. Suffer had two blue
stripes and two gold bars, indicating
that he had been in service two years
and had been twice wounded in
different battles. He spoke of what
a wonderful work the Red Cross did
on the battleields, of the dug-outs
where there are so beds in each to
care for the wounded soldiers.
Priv. Suffer explained the name OF
mo mans land" saying that it was
the ground between the trenches OF
the opposing armies and it was called
mo mans land" because neither
army had captured it.
He said that $4,000 American boys
had been fighting with the Allied
forces since the war began.
Another thing he told about the
Red Cross work, was that so many
thousands of men died from the lack
of care and attention at the outbreak
of the war, but now that the Red
Cross work has been so we'll organ
lied the death rate of wounded men
has decreased considerably" said he.
Ne closed his address with final
plea for the War Fund Drive of this
week.
Interesting Account of r. c. Work
Mr. w. c. Mccullough, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, who was with Priv. Sui
ter, gave very concise and accurate
report of the financial side of the
American Red Cross Society.
Mr.. Mccullough first paid tribute
to Abraham Lincoln and to the state
of his nativity. He then told of the
first Red Cross Society. He stated
that it was founded in the year 1850
while the Crimean war was on and
its originator was Sufrano. In 1868
a convention was held in Switzerland
where the Society was chartered and
and its Constitution was adopted.
The Red Cross emblem is Switzer-
lands flag reversed.
In 1895 the present American Red
Cross was organized and chartered
and it now has 10 working divisions.
Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio consti-
tute one ofthe divisions.
Mr.. Mccullough made the state
ment that all the money the Red
Cross Society had received had been
spent very judiciously. Here are
some figures he gave as to its ex-
penditures in relief work in foreign
fields:
81, 600, 900 to Belgium; $I,7oo,ooo To
England; S3,I4o,ooO to Italy. $780,
600 to Russia; $2,6I7,ooo to Romania;
$S7I, 900 to Servia; 100000 to Ar
menia and Syria.
He gave an account of the work
among the repatriots, that is, the men
who were caught behind the Ger
mans and whom have been brought
out of their servitude and returned
to their native homes. America is
sending portable houses across the
sea to the repatriots. The American
Red Cross has, in France, at the pre-
sent time, said Mr. Mccullough, fifty
units with $50 nurses and doctors in
each. 4,323 distributing stations; g
canteens, which are serving 10000
soldiers every day as they go to and
from the trenches; 6 base hospitals
with $50 beds each and all the beds
are filled. The American Red Cross
has sent 1000 surgical dressings to
France within years time.
Mr.. Mccullough is Red Cross
worker himself. He said he had
tried to enlist for active service at
two different times but was rejected
on account of his age--so he is now