The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1918-10-11
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eu % ihe arch across the street few feet away,
through which they would soon pass with the
American and French flags intertwined and the
ilo'to III Dig scrawy letters "SoyeS les Bienvenus
She explained that | was an American. They
seemed TO understand, and their faces lighted up,
Tor this was In early June and even these pitful
ones, who had been where little news had reached
lhen Tor nearly four years, knew that the Ameri-
cans were in France IN good numbers now and
their allies
SO the group ceased to shrink from my camera.
y woman even thrust her child forward and
Smoothed its hair so that it would look well in the
picture. But, just / about to snap the
*hutter, another woman I'm the group, standing q
little back, looked at me with expression that
was full of condemnation, full of appeal, she
said: YES my friends let stand up straight,
30 that he can get good photograph of miseryw
Then she laughed bitterly, and I-well, did not
take the picture.
At this moment the rest of the convoy began to
come out of the station led by the Chasseurs' lit
tie band With them came Red Cross men and
nurses, carrying helping those who could not
walk into the waiting camions and ambuances.
l put up my camera and hurried ahead to reach
the casino, whittier the procession bound, be.
fore their arrival there. Someone struck up La
Marseillase" some woman with high, shrill
voice. AS l climbed upon the front seat OF an
ambulance and we started to pass the crowd /
thought for moment that ! now going to
see, going to hear. what had come up from Paris
for-the glad burst Of enthusiasm, of happiness
from these people now that they fully realized
that they were in France, among their own, free
from the German yoke which had lain on their
necks since 1914. But our ambulance went by
the procession there were no other voices raised
10 join that of the singing woman, and after few
bars she too stopped singing and the procession
went on, silent, shufiiing except for some small
boys, town boys, who trudged ahead of the Chas-
| reached the casino ahead Of the procession
md waited at the door for them to come down the
Rue du Casino The narrow, steep street was
crowded along its sidewalks with townspeople,
and from windows was flung the tricoor, while the
American flag waved here and there, too As the
procession came around the head of the street the
people hailed 1t with cheers and the waving of
flags. The Chasseurs played more lOudy-now
II was "Vive rArmee" they were footing A few
Of the children raised their heads and looked with
glad eyes on the enthusiastic natives who were
trying So hard to cheer them home. An old man
in the procession Strengthened up and shouted
'Viye lc General JOffrc." But otherwise there
were no cheers, thrills of happiness, nor any
thing but just that dOwn-bent attitude, that shut
ding walk that daZed whipped, cOwed expires
sion. 1t was. the woman at the station had
said misery. For Evian is the clearing house of
misery these days.
1t was not so at first, the American Red Cross
doctor told me- and SO the Suhprefect of the de
partnent of the Haute-Savoie also assured me-
(Which is why make such great effort to
cheer them they come in nowadays" he said.
They are crushed, these people; they like
dead and women, and the children, even the
little ones scarcely alive to the situation.
Free from Germany once more? They cannot be
neVe it-there is scarcely enough strength left In
their poor minds and bodies for them TO be able
to understand"
Yes, ADDED the Red Cross doctor, pointing out
a girl of eighteen nineteen who passed; look
at the expression on the face of that girl" /
looked. caught here eye as she turned In my di.