The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-06-13

and farm animals Vehicles of all
kinds from the setam rollers of the
road members pulling large wagons.
to two-wheel carts. piled high with
household treasures with an old wo-
man perched on top. and perhaps
goat looking over the edge, baby car
riages loaded with bundles. and wheel
barrows. But vehicles are scarce in
the war zone, and many thousands
were on foot, A weary. tragic exo-
dus. frightened and made beautiful
by the wonderful courage of the peo-
pie At Polk we left some people to
establish soup kitchen for the pass.
ing refugees. and rushed on 10 Beau
vais. We arrived there in the even.
ing. The next morning we opened
canteen and rest room at the sta
ton for the thousands OF refugees
beginning to come in. We took over
what had once been General Foch.s
headquarters for living quarters.
which Mrs. Van Keuren and Mrs. Hird
managed for US so that we could shell
ter about 45 Red Cross workers. We
soon had hospital going.
We sent courier to Paris to send
cable that we were safe.
BEDDING SCARCE
IN BEAuViS.
Blankets. beds and mattresses were
hard to get in Beauvais. and so while
we were waiting for some to come up
in truck from Paris our forty-five
Red Cross people in the Red Cross
house had sixteen single beds, ten
mattresses in all. and straw. Mrs.
time shifting us around each night so
that no one would get spoiled by too
much luxury.
Beauvais became IA big evacuation
center for sending large special refu-
gee trains to other parts of France
Many came down to this section. That
is why we were presently transferred
here. For the first few days after our
arrival in Beauvais was in charge of
organizing the work there. and was 30
busy that / forgot about IL being Good
Friday On Easter Sunday we took
flying trip to Amiens by auto to see
the situation Our Paris chief was
convinced that there was no chance
,of our returning to Amiens for fur
tber relief work--the city was practic-
ally deserted-and told us he was go
ing to transfer US here as soon as we
were no longer needed in Beauvais.
to Amiens to salvage some OF the
blankets and mattresses and beds
from one OF our emergency hospitals.
The building was mostly wrecked. but
the supplies were all right. There
were several Boche planes overhead.
and ii was quite exciting i managed
also to get out our smaf trunks with
most of our personal belongings and
some important papers. Shortly after
that we came from Beauvais to Paris
by truck and here we are now at Bor-
deaux in charge of the A. r. c. relief
work for the three departments-th
Gironde. the Landes and the Lot ct
Garonne. AS there are many refugees
from Amiens and the north. just as we
ourselves are, we feel quite at home
together. But like the other refugees
we all look forward to getting back
to the north as soon as possible. Our
hearts are there. 1t is tragic to think
of poor old Amiens!
FRANCE RELIES
ON RED CROSS.
hope the new Red Cross drive is
goihg to be glorious success-I am
sure it will be. France is relying ppon
the American Red Cross with an al
most pathetic dependence. II makes
one very humble to read some of the
letters and to hear some of the things
the French say about America and
the Americans. A letter recently re-
ceived from the lady with whom we
lived in Amiens, now a refugee. says
she travelled in a vast train. of $500
refugees and that refugees everywhere
said: 1--WE can only be helped by the
American Red Crossi" She said that
her son had treasured a small Ameri-
can flag. which he put in the window
of their car. They seem to think that
America can do anything, and that the
American Red Cross is omnipotent.
n. C. HELPING
WIN WAR.
And when we look around and see that
all over France the Red Cross Is help