The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-04-18
SAYS ALLIES NEED
PLANES AND MEN
Red Cross Manager Brings
Col. Roosevelt Message
from Soldier Sons
JUST BACK FROM
WESTERN FRONT
Saw First American Hero and Will
Garry War Cross to His Mother Who
Lives in Florence, Ala.-Praises the
Spirit of Wounded.

NEW YORK, April 1S-Aeroplanes
and men, and then more men, is the
message which Major George w. Sim
mons of St. Louis, division manager of
the Southwestern division of the Amer
lean Red Cross, brings back from the
| battlefields of France where the Amer
| lean forces are.
! Major Simmons spoke enthusiastic
ally of the spirit and fighting ability
of our troops when he called on Col.
Theodore Roosevelt to tell him little
more of the condition of his son, Capt.
Archie Roosevelt, who was recently
severely wounded.
His confidence in the ability of the
British and French to check the Ger
man attack was evidenced in every
word he said to Col. Roosevelt and his
i interviewers.
4 81 have talked with officers Of all
ranks in France he said, "and with
ont exception they feel that while the
British line may bend it will never
break.
but the one message they send back
to the people here is to send all the
men possible. They have not a single
American aeroplane on the Toul front
and they need them, but above all else
their words to me were: For God
sake send us more men.
Major Simmons also feels, after talk
ing with American newspaper CORE
spondents in France, that the censor
ship should be relaxed to an extern
where more news might be sent abou
the casualties III the American army
He said he knows from actual expert
ence that the losses III some divisions
particularly the Rainbow division, hav
been heavy.
have met many of the correspond
eRts. abroad and l have, never met !
finer, more able body of men thai
! they are. They all feel that a seriou
wrong is being done by the censorship
because they can't give the exac
facts.
"The people over here read of raid
j and of the German losses, but the COZ
respondents are not able to send any
luIllS bediLuS oH tllt casualties III oh
own forces / have seen 200 men frol
one regiment who had been gassed an
at least 20 from another regimen
II Our men over there cant understan
gas. and they have suffered from it.
II Major Simmons talked to Col Roos
Welt in the latter 5 office in the cit.
and the colonel was intensely interes
ell in everything he had to say, pa
= tcularlv, Of course in the news
u Capt Archie Roosevelt. Major Sir
mons saw Capt. Roosevelt while he W;
in the evacuation hospital on the To
front, March %.
"The only thing that worries him
I that he can I get back into the fightir
right away said the major and Il
colonel beamed. .Three years ago
soldier had received the woun
which Capt. Roosevelt had received
\ would have lost an arm and one Il
would have been stiff for the rest
his life.
"But the surgeons over there ha
made such rapid advances in the
i science during the war that in she
- time Capt. Roosevelt will be as well
- ever and able to get back into t
4 fight.
\ ~ also saw Major Theodore Roo
4 welt, who when ! left was station
about four miles behind the front.
had the highest words of praise for {
men of his regiment, and told me tn
the spirit of the army is wonderf
that the men can hardly wait to s
into the trenches. >
Major Simmons also had a MESA
to carry which gives him more pie
ure than any of his others. When
was at hospital nurse asked him