Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-07

Then they had to work against time
lobe ready sfot the next train. ana
they did this for twelve solid hpuIs
land more. as fast as mel couid3NoEn
Perhaps In writing which c anne
hope to speak of the hundredsE -
Italians In all walks of life VINO ,1ave
worked shoulder to shoulder With. 9
RED. Cross men, and whose co-opera.
ton has madeatheir work possible y
may be permitted to cite one as &peI'
sonifyinE many. SGiorgio d.Acernia
lis the penn name OF g young writer
on the proposed Jugo-SlCvo State ana
the future Of Poland. He is known
also for his ardor onsa certain na,lle-
field, where he was left Tor dead WIZ
q shrapnel wound in his
Some later strecher bearers
his body to a field hospital, .Wners
the physicians in charge said tnat a.
was clearly dying
They turned to more hopeful cases,
and for a second time NE was lett
to n side for the, flicker OF lite IN
him to SNUFF itself out. It
that Bastianelli, perhaps the greatest
of the Italian surgeons,-and ltaly "
famous for her surgeons IN TINS war
came to that ward. Il cas- y
hppele.s. said B~astiane)li. None tne
less I want to try to save him. IheIe
1OlIUWGu IlbC ulSI III avn tNJS
atoms which brought the young au-
.~thor-soldier. back to his people, u
shadow of himself, with a great open
wound In his side. That was eight
months ago. He cannot go back TO
the front, but he still works on for
italy. It was 'Girgio d'Acarnia who
was in command Of the Granatieri,
cutting bread for the refugees, train
after train all that night.
Refugees in the RAIN.
Pouring rain beat into the open
train-shed and through the doors OF
the cars. Rain was the one familiar
Of the Sc c%ontalini in all the stranse
places through which they were driv-
en- by the fortunes Of war. 1t was
curing rain when they struggled!
down the black road from Udine. |:
was pouring rain when many of them
were put off the trains into the aisii
at Florence, just as it was pouring
rain when they passed through Rome
on this, thel next lap of their journey.
1t was pouring rain when some OF
them were transferred from ferry to
train at Messina, and they stood wai't-
ing in the dark in the drench CT it
for two hours on the wharves. And
it was pouring rain when otheS-or
perhaps some of the same company
trudged after midnight up the in
terminable folds of road that lead 10
the mountain top town in Sicily that
/ was for q thousand and more .thei"
journeys end.
They came into Rome that night
mostly or cattle cars, some of ties:
transformed for the use of war into
troop trains, but others clearly i'm
taken from little. northern schools
and churches for seats. The Ar ri-
can canteen workers could read the
names Of them in the station lights.
Santa ......" this and that.
Most Of the people, those who came
in around midnight and after, had
not eaten for Twelve hours. Tie
babies were crying, the few men that
were among them were cursing. the
women were wringing their hands.
The Americans, drenched to the skin
in going from car to car, passed the
sandwiches out to them, the hot milk
for the babies, the soup for the
adults. the blankets for the old and
sick. And before each train had lef:.
the station, a young Italian officer,
tall, slender, with a great open w .und
in his side concealed by his grey
green uniform, went from car to car,
in the rain and the cold, inflarning
thetr hearts with words of encourage
ment. Not once, SO the canteen
WORKERS tell the story, but the trains
rolled out with the people singins
patriotic hymns, and cheering for
Italy, for the allies, for America
& America in Action.
The American note has been struck
in All this Red Cross work in Italy
not in a spirit of self-advertisement
for the United States, but rather. OF
assurance for Italians. to give them
""l,ne ev,den1e that in resisting in
vasion and in getting under it's heavy
load of civilian distress the American
people, are with them, evidence not
merely in sympathetic cables and dis
tant girdings for war, but evidence
expressed in such humble but COM
vincing terms as surgical DRESSINGS
and instruments for field and base
hospitals. shirts and drawers and
stockings for shivering limbs in asili
and refuge trains. condensed milk for
hungry babies, blankets and beds and
stoves for homeless families in lodg-