The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-19
CL0-AMERICAN ENTENTE LOOMS
 BIG IN EAST

Constantinop1e. May 2.---CBy Mailo The Anglo American entente Is no idle dream. Out here in the Near East 1t has taken practical form.
 Wherever an American needs help. wherever a representative or groups of American relief workers need lift there bobs up a courteous British officer or soldier intent on cementing the entente.
 Do American Red Cross personnel need to transport supplies or person. mel from Athens to Rome, to Constan-
 tinople to Asia Minor, to saloniki, the Rumanian coast? There is room aboard a British destroyer, sub chaser or motor lorry. For meals and transportation no charge is made. i The Balkan traveller strikes a lonely
 town in mid-Siberia. British officers
 take him or her into their mess. They
 speed MT. or Miss America on his
 her way with a liberal supply of
 canned goods for the trip and place
 motor truck or car at his or her dis
 posal.
 Your people have been good to us
 elsewhere they explain, and we are
 only reciprocating. No charge. Chalk
 it up to the entente.
 Between American and British na-
 val officers there is brotherly camar-
 aderie And even the 'gobs'' have
 come to the conclusion that the ''li-
 mey'' after all is a pretty good old
 skate"
 At Salonilxi British officers find our
 Red Cross girls most bewitching. At
 Belgrade, American and British off,
 cers mess and knock about ensemble. In Bucharest they sit at the same ta- bleS in the cafe watch the one round boxing matches at the Alham- bra from the same box.
 In Constantinople American officers head at once upon arrival for the British Officers Rest House where the meals are superfine and the Sunday night concerts wondrous almost a $ the army version of The Chocolate Soldier" in the park near the Pera Palace hotel.
 In Athens officers and men of both English-speaking countries toll up to the Acropolis together and in Rome the Young Mems Christian Associa- tion cinema shows and sightseeing tours for the city include both Tom mics and Tanks in equal measure. In Macedonia the American Red Cross men iocularly called themselves British Red Crossers'' last winter If it had not been for the British
 army we would have had to stop work up here during the rush back of the
 deportees from Bulgaria in November
 December and January said one Red Cross man.
 T was bowling anti-English before this war;" added the Red Cross man.
 formerly a sergeant in the army, Out I'm strong for the Britishers now They fed us, they gave us food for ! the refugees, they turned over their
 army bakery to us, they gave us i transportation by rail and put their l 1orries at our disposal Anything
 you say about what they have done l for Americans out here in the Near ! East is not too strong.'
 General Milne of the British army ] in the Balkans stood behind the | American Red Cross during the four
 months ending February 23 when the
 first foodstuffs shipped by Americans 1 for the relief of Greece reached Ma | cedonia.
 1 Our whole Macedonian expedition would have collapsed had it not been ! for the British. The British forces l had occupied eastern Macedonia and | knew it's desperate need" Everywhere one goes in the Bal 1 kans one hears the same stories | Everywhere British officers and men 1 have gone far out of their way to l help Americans on their missions 1 American army couriers, United l States Food Mission officers, Near i East Relief Mission personnel in Asia Minor and Armenia and mem
 bers of the Balkan Commission of the 1 American Red Cross all tell the same 1 stories of kindness, courtesy and the | helping hand