Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-23
BRITISH AND AMERICANS
IN CLOSEST COOPERATION
Work NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. In Near
East I'm Greatest Mutual
Good HumOr.
STRONG FOR ENGLISH NOW
Red Cross Man, Formerly Army
Sergeant, Declares lie Was Howl
ing Anti-Britisli Before War, but
Is Now Strong for Them.

CONSTANTINOPLE June 22.-The
Anglo american entente is no idle
has taken practical form. Wherever
an American needs help. wherever a
representative or groups of American
relief workers need lift there bobs
UP courteous British officer or SOL
dier Intent on ccmcntinS the entente
DO American Red Cross personnel
need to transport supplies or personnel
noplc. TO Asia Minor. to Saloniki, TO
the Roumanian coast? There is room
aboard a british DESTROYER. sub
anu transportation no charge is made.
The Balkan traveller strikes a lonely
Town IN mid Serbia british officers
take him or her into their mess. They
speed Mr.. or Miss America on his or
her way with liberal supply OF
canned goods for the trip and place "A
motor truck or car at mis- or her dis
poSal.
"Chnik II Up to Entente"
You people have been good to us
everywhere" they explain. and We
are ar. only reciprocal ting. No charge.
CHALK II up to the entente"
Bctween American and British naval
oihcers there Is brothcrly camaraderie.
Ana even the "gobs" have come TO the
conclusion that the "limey" after all
IS a pretty good old skate"
~ Sa!oniki British officers find our
Eed cross s!rls most bewitching. At
Belgrade American and British oni-
e.
IT. bucharest they sit at the same
tables in the cafe or watch the one
r"und boxing matches AT the Alham-
bra from the same box.
In COnstantinoplc American officers
head at once upon arrival for the
british officers rest house. where the
night concerts as wondrous almost as
the army version OF The Chocolate
Soldier in the park near the Pera
Palace Hotel.
Duty and Pleasure Together.
In Athens officers and men of both
Enslish-speaking countries toll up TO
the Metropolis together, and in Rome
the Y. N. {. y cinema shows and
hoth Tommics and Yanks in equal
measure.
In Macedonia the American Red
cross men jocularly called themselves
Brit!sh Red crossers" last winter
III II had not been for the British
army We would have had TO stop work
up here during the rush back of the
dcportees from Bulgaria in November,
Cross man.
4 was bowling an,i-English be
iore ms war, added the Red Cross
Tut FIN stronr .er tna In Ihf ary
now. They fed us. they gave us food
for the refugees. they turned over
their army bakery at Oxilar TO us. they
gave US transportation by raj! and
put their lorricS At our disposal. Any
thing you say about what they have
done FOR Americans out here in the
Near East Is not too strong"
Helps Red Cross Work.
General Milne, of the British army
in the Balkans. stood behind the
American Red Cross during the four
months ending February IS, when the
nrst foodstuifs shipped by Americans
for the relief of Greece reached Mace
donna, says Major Horace S. Oakley,
Of Chicago. our whole Macedonian
expedition would have collapsed had II
not been for the British. The British
forces had occupied Eastern Mace
domia and knew its desperate need"
Everywhere one goes in the Bal
kans one hears the same stories.
Everywhere British officers and men
have gone far out Of their way TO help
Americans on their missions. Ameri-
can army coUricrS. United States food
mission officers, Near East relief mis-
sion personnel in Asia Minor and
Armenia and members of the Balkan
commission of the American Red Cross
al! tell the same stories of kindness,
courtesy and the helping hand.