The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01

Barre, Vt. They advanced to this post in spite of violent enemy lombard ment of shells and tear-gas bombs. (One of these men is now in Milan, being treated for a serious condition of the eyes due to gas.) This medical post be- came so dangerous during their work there that it had to be abandoned but they continued to carry wounded, gath ering them from the road. And this task was continued and accomplished by them day and night during the entire offensive.
 On the night of the 17th two of the new volunteers who had just joined the section distinguished themselves. Wal ter J. Feeder of Cincinnati and Robert C. Cory of Newark N. J., went to a front post where fighting was very fierce, and were stopped by colonel, who told them it was impossible to pro ceen. At this very moment the coionei was struck and seriously injured by Piece of shell. They carried him imme- diately I.to a surgical station; on their return they were stopped at a bridge by military police, who said 1t was 1atal tc ec further; but taking advantage of a moments inattention on the part Of the guards. they went on in spite of this warning, and succeeded in carrying a great rumter of wounded from this area
 CANTEENS SPRING UP
 Not long after the first ambulance
 moved American Red Cross canteens
 sprang up at favorable sites just behind
 the lines. Ten canteens had been in
 orcration under the department of mill
 iiary affairs for months; seven more
 were added immediately. The emergency
 group were placed, equipped and di
 rected by B. Harvey Carroll, American
 ,ct,1 in, Ont Of lnOu pXnPri- ence in Red Cross relief in that be- sieged city, Mir. Carroll was able within 24 hours to gather and ship through the teeming zone of operations enough coffee, cigarettes and chocolate to supply stations where the daily average Of men served was sometimes as high as 5000.
 Each post was directed by two American Red Cross men for that purpose. Early in the offensive death oc- cured in the American Red Cross forces. Lieut. Edward M. Mickey of New Yofk -city who had taken the first American canteen to the Italian front last winter and who had lately moved to a site on the Piave front too hazardous tc be entrusted to younger men, was instantly killed by a shell on the morn ing of June r. Lieutenant Mickey was buried the next day. his grave marked by plain wooden cross, inscribed with his name and rank, like the rows of Italian dead beside him. A small Amer :can flag has been placed beside the cross, and throughout the battle his Ital- ian friends kept fresh flowers on the grave
 1 Besides these canteens in the very cen ter of the busiest fire, there were other | and equally busy Red Cross rest houses
 at the railway stations in the rear. At | these functions tired columns of men on
 their way to short time repose encoun- tered fresh troops marching toward the battle. At one important junction, where | the troops of three allied armies emerged and separated for their various sectors l an American Red Cross canteen had beer | hastily perch under a spreading tree op posite the station entrance, looking fol all the world like a youngsters lemonade stand on a circus day. Here an Ameri