The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-07-18

BECAME SO great, he. went with his
wife upon a six months. tour of Amer
lean, British and French. camps and
hospitals. and has been back only d
little whilc)
T, A few weeks ago Red Cross man
was watching the arrival OF train
from Switzerland at the Care de Lyon
In Paris. Among the passengers were
many broken. emseiated creatures
both men and women. together with a
few frail. half starved children. These
were ''repartries." the wreckage OF
the invaded districts OF northern
France. who. grown too feeble to serve
longer their task-masters, the Ger.
mans had been sent back 10 France
by way of Evian on the Swiss border.
No sight would be more hearthreaking
than a procession of these homeless.
hopeless people. who. after suffering
the mental and physical tortures In.
nicted on them by. the Germans. are
sent back to France to begin life anew
In unfamiliar SURROUNDINGS and among
strangers. The French Government
and the French people do everything
possible TO mitigate the tragedy OF
their lot and to make them feel wei
come. bu, at best. the tragedy is all
but overwhelming. -r., se.r-,
In few minutes of all the. passen-
gers there remained on the platform
only young woman carrying in her
arms a child The woman was pitt
ably haggsrd and. worn; the child
scarcely more than skin and bone.
These two appeared to have neither
a destination nor q friend TO concern
himself with their arrival. tho the
woman paced TO and fro gazing am.
iously on all sides as IL she expected
to find a familiar face. Noticing her
distress. the Red Cross man asked
her whom she was looking for. 'Ah,
my husband. and then.
to find a sympathetic ear.
she told her story. .-t
Her husband and she had owned
a little farm in northern France. In
August, 1914. he went to the war. lesv-
ing her In charge of their home. They
had not children. Then the Germans
came, seized all she owned aud com
peiied her to serve them as a menial
A year later she gave birth to little
girl. the father being a German ser
geant into whose power sshe had been
given. As long tss shs was strong
enough to work the Germans had held
her. but SORROW and hardship finally
broke her down and they sent her
back to France ~ IorFft.E 20
MY husband Is now in Paris on
leave, and he was TO meet me here at
the station. All, how long and how
/ dread TO see him. He knows moth
ing OF this child. What will he say
and do when he sees IL in my arms7 !
love II, because.1 bore II. but how can
! expect him even to tolerate itg''
This story is only one. among thou
sands that could be told, varying from
one another only In their sorrowful de
tails. When the Germans xeize a new
district they make complete census
Of all women. of chiid-bearing age.
These women are assigned TO German
officers and soldiers. When the chill
dren are born the boys are taken
from their mothers and sent into Ger
many 10 be raised by the state fer
future "cannon-fodder,';:- the girls are
left with their = motbers. who when
their value as slaves has, ceased. are
sent back TO France with their fe-
male babies. .,,,s
II is their increasing knowledge OF
these infamies that js .bIinglng the
American soldier more aud more TO
feel that he Is fighting to protect his
OWN women from the fate of the wo-
men of France .sad Belgium, Last
January was talking with Lieut. r.
of Massa chusetts. then stationed at an
camp in eastern France. He
was thirty-nine years old. the posses-
sor Of wife and three children and
The head of large contracting busi-
ness which be had built up thru his
,wn exertions. He had had not mill
tary training previous to our declnr.
alton OF war. but when the crisis
came he volunteered. went to Platts-
burg and was now In France doing his
all. remarked that man with 80
many domestic responsibilities might
have felt iustified in atayiug at home