Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-07-11

approaching, lHe Htdl ti cHuIIS oSo"c' among refugees driven into Paris their homes by the Germans, ano the desperate times during the German drive in May and June to- ward Paris are graphically told in a letter from Miss Henrietta Taylol of Pine Bluff, now in Red Cross work in Paris, to Mrs. Sextus Wilson, 6O3 Cherry street, Pine Bluff. The letter also tells of the hardships undergone by Red Cross workers, Miss Taylor having put in 42 hours on one stretch and the wonderful faith and courage of the French peasants.
 May 2S, 1918,
 I must try to write little on my weekly letter each night for when put it off I am always too tired to attempt long letter and it's quite impossible to write a short one.
 The war news tonight is most dis couraging and tell you things look blue. We got rush orders today and we're again working under high pres sure. We've added an hour longer to our work day which means l have to leave here about 7:45 and 1 don't get home until seven. The Red Cross had given the workers Saturday afternoon and of course that has been recalled It's wonderful to see how our French workers respond to appeals, they do 1t all so willingly and cheerfully and many a night they lose sleep on ac- count of, air raidss. The big guns are still bombarding us and tonight the shells dropped at nearer intervals but we go along and until it gets us I guess we won't give it much thought. Don't ever feel worried about me, rest assured that the Red Cross will care for it's workers in any eventuality. I've worked about ten hours to-day and Pm somewhat tired tonight but at that I feel fine. sleep we'll and am standing it wonderfully well. If the demands continue as at present I won't have my two weeks vacation until after the smash is ov- CT. I couldn't think of taking a vaca- ton now and Pm we'll enough to go on another month.
 / I received note from Miss Franey at Schober- Martins telling me that the ambulance robe had been sent in the name of the 18th engineers. It was sweet of them to want me tc place it and I shall take such pleas ure in doing it. 1 hope to get a personal acknowledgement for them The other one has given such pleas ure and comfort and Mrs. de Forrest says the boys adore it. Our men are giving splendid account cf them selves.
 Thursday Night
 I am dead tired tonight and l fee like getting into bed clothes and all We shall most likely work Sunday Today trucks were sent from one o. the front hospitals, dressings were dumped into them and off they went That may give you some idea of the need and rush. 1 was told the new: was some better tonight. Lord knows we needed some more cheerful news What it is I don't know but Pm onl! too willing to believe the situation i: better. Last night when we heard Soissons had been taken it wasn't yer! reassurihg. The big gun is banging away tonight. Last night we hat an attempted air raid but our bar rage kept the Clothes from reaching Paris. You may know how tired am when I fell you I fell asleep be fore the sirens had finished blowing The sirens, you have never heard anything to equal them. "Boots will remember the night, New Year: Eve, when we were kids and so ter rified over the whistles, well. if yol intensity that about ten times yol get an idea of the racket the siren make, that sound the "Alerta" fo an air raid.
 Saturday Night, July I, 1918 T haven't had any sleep for Al hours but l must write tonight. Per haps what I say tonight might hell to make someone realized the crime of indifference to ones duty of per sonal sacrifice. It's nothing to give to deuands and it's criminal not tt give ones time, tell you my heart i: almost broken tonight. Pve jus come from one of the big Paris sta tions where I've been working in thu Red Cross Canteen fer the refugee! ] pouring in from the evacuated terri tory. Our own workinp hours as | wrote are heightened and we ar' working tomorrow. Sunday. All las night I worked until 5:30 this morn ing at this same station giving a lit tie something hct and something tt l eat to these pathetic refugees ponr ing in trainload after trainload. To night I could come home at midnigh because the lines are holding ant we haven't so many as last night. i I left work yesterday snatched ; mouthful for dinner went straight tt the station worked all night, got il at 5:3O this morning, slept an hou then to my own work and back 70 th, station until midnight Nance. it's tot terrible, too tragic you don't know what suffering and sacrifice means until you have seen these poor home less creatures pour in from the occu pied country .Perhans can naint fev ! tragic figures that may help to brinl i home to YOU.
 A mother with nine children fath , CT killed the first year of the wa, home in ruins, everything gone. An other mother with little children an
 baby three days old driven cut be fore the onrush of tho Cerr, ans. Ina