Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-23

staffs and medical relief workers including a small hospital for babies. winch stretched from Amiens to Montdldler, Lassigny, Noyon and Soissons.
 "The next withdrawal was to the present line where a perfected chain or, stations to help refugees has ben developed. From Baauvais on the west it passes through Clermont, Compiegne and Soissons.
 "Compeigne is where field headouar- ters have been established. As the most advanced Red Cross workers WlthdreW from their posts, reinforce mehts were sent from the rear. When the f1rst reconnoitering party arrived there, they found that there was work to do in helping the refugees with whom the roads were crowded. Back they dashed to Paris to give the word And Lack again to CoEpeigne with or ders and supplies. But the refugees were no longer alone in the roads There were soldiers also. Though the first plan had been to helD the refu- gees at this point, the assistance was also turned over to the soldiers.
 "The Red Cross men arrived for their second visit to Compeigne on a moonlight night. Uncouth German avlators were flying low and their machine guns were beating a tattoo on the town while from time to time bomb dropped As one man said while his car sped through the moon- light, There was just a piece of can vas between me and he'll
 A bomb had dropped on three army trucks standing close together. Their gasoline tanks exploded and a flame shot up through the clear night light. CompelSne was not d pleasant place that night. But the relief workers were stuck there in spite of machine guns and bombs. Finally they found the hotel which had been abandoned and taken over as an emergency Red Cross headquarters
 A Red Cross hospital at Annel 15 miles north Of Compeigne had been evacuated. but the American doctors stuck ii their posts which was most fortunate for there the Red Cross had fine supply of material which was transported back to Compeigne not only for the soldiers passing thru but also for the emergency canteen station which the Daily unit a unit of hospital aides with the Red Cross, had established at that point
 50 the line drew back from Beau vais to Sossons and with the field organization establishing itself solid ly and calmly. Fine work is being done at Beauvais and the movement of supplies is now fully organized. The refugees problem has only begun for the Red Cross, because that that organization has the intention of fol- lowing the great body of the refugees to their final destinations further south and continuing to help them.
 "The Red Cross kept it's field or ganization intact but some warehouses and construction work was destroyed. The stores were partly saved and partly given over to the soldiers to take, the rest being burned so that the barbarians should not benefit by them. Every one worked his hardest Tan dthe drivers especially deserve the highest praise. The spirit of the armies caught hol dof all the other workers. The refugees were resign ed but accomplishing and throughout those twelve days of crisis a. spirit was shown by all concerned that should teach even the Germans that though they may have taken some territory they have not conquered one bit of the spirit of the Allies.