Evening journal., 1918-08-24
PARIS QUIET since
ALLIES BEGAN PUSH
Mrs. Willard Hall Porter
Receives Letter About Con-
ditions in That City
{. H. BLACK TELLS
OF RED CROSS WORK


executive committee Of the Delaware
Red Cross, has received a letter from
Charles Holman Black. an American
OF many years residence in Paris. who
Is doing relief work among refugees
and in the hospitals The local Red
Gross have sent him many packages
for his work.
The letter asks for someone to write
to a French soldier who Is alone in
the world. and whom the writer recon-
mends as a worthy case. Present con-
ditions In Paris are hopefully de-
ecribed. The letter follows:
40 Avenue de Breteuil Paris, Aug. 1918
'i6 Avenue de Breteuil,
Paris. August 4, 1918.
"My Dear Mrs. Porter: am so de-
lishted 70 receive the letter and the
newspaper clippings you thoushtfully
enclosed.
Thank you once more for those
needed shoes, coats and all else en-
route, and ! hope 10 receive them all
right I have plenty OF influential
people to help me concerning the re-
oeiving OF cases, and who say I should
have them. but somewhere there Is an
sgreemnt entered into by France and
America. which seems to be the most
binding I have ever come across, and
individuals like me. cannot have what |
would have II were a simple society.
TO have a society means great deal
NJ expense, and how much better u
r. 20 spend that money right out for
fhe soldier himself than In once
rents. and the thousand and one little
things useless for the soldier but |
necessary when one has a society with !
various officers. You can be sure, my 4
dear Mrs, Porter that the Barthelemey |
family will always have all they want
and all that, you send II specially.
like them all, and now the boys write
me themselves from their respective
regiments, They always come 70 SEQ
me when on permission. l believe them
such worthy people.
what magnificent work the ALLIES
sre doing. and our hopes are running
hieher, the morale OF the men Is per I
feet everywhere. Since the last ad- ]
vance we are having peace and tram (
guilty in Paris. The bombardment I
has ceased and we have not had a I
night raid in some three weeks The {
last time the long distance cannon {
fired. a shell fell near me and killed /
three. persons. but there were only :
two shells during the entire day, which I
was nothing since at FIRST we had {
them regularly every fifteen minutes. T
I think now the worst is passed, and /
7 have even lost the idea that we may {
be subjected 10 a bomhardment by |
aeroplane for which every precaution a
was taken.
People are already beginning 70 come I
hack 10 Paris, having had enough OF I
oisconforts OF the country. | really {
had no fear and the only precsuhon
..n.. s tbe house was TO pack up a
collection Of English lustre porcelain
and carry it down into the cellar. Every !
thine else IS az we have IL in times I
Of peace. Many people took down pic 8
lures and removed ornaments from man
lei pieces. but did not. II "a wonder
'ul how the boys from home arrive
,ere and although the Germans DO not
believe "we are coming" stlll am told >,
Z Is pitiful 70 see the expression on !.
he faces OF the German prisoners In !.
,oris where they see transports de- :
,osit the men A prisoner told one OF :
nv boys the other day, that the Ger .
nan soldiers had been told that the
.nbmarine warfare was 30 successful
hat America was not able TO get over
| man. Another lie OF theirs, was re-
entity told when the Belgians had q
cal success, also the Germans were
old that It was the English dressed up
,s Belgisns. as the Germans had entire
" wiped out the Belgian army, so that
h did not exist any more. ] only nope.
now that the retreat has really begun
hat their fright will cause them to
run and we wiz soon get them back
10 the Rhine.
"I realized how weak, and perhaps
worn out, ! am at this time, when this
I went TO lovely Notre Dame
for the prayers to be offcrcd for the
victory OF the Allies, and when It seem
ed to me a million people were galher-
ID, every inch Of space being occupied
even in the Monks Walk up near the
roof, ! could not suppress the tears.
To see the old, the young, the wounded.
he officers, the poor and the rich al
On common footing and out Of the
silence TO hear God in Heaven, Mother
n Jesus, and all down the long list
u Saints, Pray for us, save US came
IS a cry from every lip there. II was
most impressive. Tears, even come as
recall the scene to you II there Is
God in Heaven, He must hear US.
The entrance to the church was by In
itation and all the ambassadors, min
sters and high officials were there.
Annette the archbishop Of
'sris spoke. and as be passed out OF
he church was so near him Il seemed
5 II received special benedictlon as
G blessed the crowds awaiting his pass i.
&c. l agree with you, we are in the =
sst, hardest pull Of the war and am L
eginning 70 feel now that the worst a
past. We have blue days and dis ~
ouraging events, but they will not last o.
nd will not be as terrible as those al
sady undergone. Yet, indeed, do need
badly-they are so ex- re
eDsiye here and bad in quality, some %
mes ] think II is folly 10 buy them 20
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