The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30

would be presented to the boys moth- CT probably on May 27. upon which day a patriotic meeting will be held in Florence in honor of the occasion. The speaker left last night for Memphis. where he will make a Red Cross ad- dress
 MANY VOLUNTEERS
 Questions concerning the war and the operation of the Red Cross in for eign service were answered by the speaker after the conclusion of his talks In answer to the inquiry as to whether workers were needed ana how they could be used to the best advantage. he said: ''So far we have more volunteers who can and are will- ing to pay their own expenses than we can accommodate" Answers to other questions which, from the nature nf the answers are obvious, are as fol- lows:
 ron April 1 there was not a single American made airplane in France The machines that we send will need much readjusting. The English and French machines make 1S0 miles per hour and machine is considered slow if it cannot do better than 125. If we had had 10000 airplanes over there on the fighting line when this big of fensive began the situation would have been much different today.
 TIRED OF GAS
 Why don't we gas them as they gas us?" was the first question put to the speaker. eve are gassing them" was the reply; Tn fact, gassing' them so much that they are tiring of the sport, We are gassing them so much more than they are gassing us that al I.f,f I,a fa,,s ,s,J ;,, manufacture of gas masks is exhaust ed. We have from the English so much better gas that it actually penetrates any gas mask. Nearly all the gassing now is done by shelling. If exposed to it one never lives. An appeal has now been made by Germany through Spain for the discontinuanee of the use of gas for the continuation of the war, which means until they get some more gas and gas masks that will re- sist our gas.
 We had to take the Red Cross h. signia from off the sleeves of our workers in service. The Hun knows but one rule. that of might, and, in- stead of being the sign of noncoi.i- blatant on an errand of mercy it has become to them an excellent target"
 A vivid word picture was drawn of the conditions in France before the arrival of the American Red Cross The speaker told of the decrease i'll the French morale. caused by French soldiers returning home to find the mothers. wives, sisters and children for whom they were fighting starving, freezing and being wiped out by dis ease. But General Joffre came to this country, placed his cause before the Red Cross. One hundred and six mill lion dollars was raised in only short time. This generous response made it possible for us to go to the scene and remedy this condition. Today the French morale cannot be surpassed by any people on the face of the earth.
 FIRST SHOT FIRED
 'The principle for which we are fighting is an admission that this has been our war since the first shot was fired, in August. 1914. We, as a na- tion, haven't realized it. and have been letting the others do our fighting for us. It is time to get busy and do something.
 From my stay over there I am firmly convinced of two things: That the war is going to be won by the civilian population here in America: and that while our lines are going to bend and bend adly, they are not going to break"
 III SptAhlHs Ol lut lCCcHt lCtl StLtS of the forces before the German shock attacks he said: While I cant speak from a military point of view I can say that all of these positions have been gained by enormous losses and in the opinion of the generals com manding they haven't been worth the sacrifice of life necessary to hold them doubt that single position has been lost which could not have been held. I have a 'hunch.' however that we are going to reach certain place and then we are going to take permanent stand and say, Not an- other inch Mr Bochev"