Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-26
TOUCHING INCIDENT
AS BATTLE OPENS
Forcseeing Death. Soldier Gives
His All to Red Cross
Canteen.
NAME OF DONOR UNKNOWN
serf Money to Headquarters by
Chaplain, Who Later
Was Killed.
NAME OF DONOR UNKNOWN
nr L.. EnERI.E.

y Il :GTON, January 25.-Thera
- a i,tt.e eomfor; bag. with storks
ss1 Pa )ds- Ind roses on it. that the
Fed cros. s!l. never give o any SOL
a!er, ano ,hSre Is 4 legacy left 10 the
ked Crogs that will neve. be turned
oIer 10 II. tor both Of them have been
,Hse.ncd as indispensab treasures o..
sen:% r, DAWSON, VINO was visitor
~ FRANCE al IA. time OF the occur
emfe. and who has GLADLY paid their
oqoiNsicnt IN cash 10 the big organize
ION o! whose war council he ls prcsi-
!" ~, Dawson. the comfort bag has
X me spirit OF the Red Cross ltselt
tna me legacy represents. as nearly az
cfiht e..tencS can inc true riches
IL. Lsie on III: night o. September Is.
unometeTs south OF the then coveied
s,cn- SEC. thousaH ds OF American So :
u ,be pioaded through mud and rain II.
eSsns oEcr the top At dawn in an in, :
eof:ant move IN tn. hi. dive ,ha !.
ross tns back OF the German dracon
RED CROSS STATION
we allied artillery z Red rrnss
selv.sc W a. aiTsc,ins ;hc aliins OF tn.
30 you'd DC brought back tho nexi
-. he hnc7 tina; there would be
"nnhaed. for when the America 1s go
'sf lnt ton lacy never reckon.d ~ .
'nlsccPucHres TO themselves
he ov ~" nc 1eisntiess human stream
- Y'Spp'I man had ono ciasr ,h,-
-. b.,tncne6 and mud .btspat,cra,;
~ ihio the outpost. Z chaplain
IA. . - loose .@w' , ID ne HorFe, hand
,rS ~. itdi'an and American coin.
49, waSii' :, hsttleGe,d i.s
VINO had given it, An r1ss
Mn s'-, n.rafinr ey. who had ,honsb.
:r ed no, iotah.e messenger becauss
~ 49, nave 10 enter the f-h:
80" ny nad ne done IL? Ths az
fci; III. nnow; oni me man mus, hav.
,n'aa"e this SIT, before he ~ WSh,eI
LIGHT LEARN SOLDIERS
49,. HAHE' WHEN FIGHT ESnEn
Z, , III ' wss he: The prizes, was not
ovcr--!f the man cane batlle
81 me PRIEST Was in hurrv nn!,,
,,o, ~ MOI going to fan benind ~
tho march "ao joined in
,,o ouid ;he OUTPOST man TAX. ,,e
rae ne n,, no deliver 1T to headauar,erss7
outpost man would
az, Nc. foo must hasten IL no
anouFn b:ss fiiled for the NOR
t,s b ~ ~, !'"eu' a mat moment march -
lied one a % ,ha q, strength. SO no
"a drnnned the money into IL. ston.
.,.me CRY 'ons enough TO noic on !,
,.s' " t",u me bare facts--thai h..
nse''ed me money from Chaplain
Mahonev. Of the First Division mons,.
amounting 70 100 francs. siyen /" 80,
~ INC Red Cross by an Aincrfca, oi
"io" GoinS 10 the trenches tcnieht
CHAPLAIN WAS Ku.I.ED
IN FOLLOWING FiGItrI<f
hnt nc do not sec him again. .rh,
ntSt report lie heard of Tho ,.hanlni,
o.! NC hsh'. was ;hat he had hen
Eltlcn IN action: and because he IA =.
among the dead himself he co.jJ M,
ic'i Wnich 81 inc other dead had .x
dressed tAe l.,7j wish OF his bn,-, -
ma; he0ues'. Ii is on,,- kno~n tha.
conc american boy. feeling the near
ness OF his end. reached out in thc
na-kncSs 20 lay what ne had in the
aend OF the Greatest Mother
lhat IS the sicrv OF the cretonne
h@S. he junlbled coin and the cruro-
pleh scrap OF card Eu, The C;reatHs,
Mother is grateful. There is no 6sarsS
treasurer or this earth than compre-
hcnsion And the boy WHO. "coinE 10
'he trenches tonight" turned TO har
Nh2n he ssnsed deaths shadow near.
must have rolt her very heart he,,
the:c IN the midst O. war.
In what particular way the Red
,-rcSs had earned his love will never
nc known. Had II healed a wound !.
t'T cared Tor fa--awar loved one"
Or gwen The touch of home that a
loneiy hoy lonSed for? Only one th.ns
"a certain. that whatever it was. IL
MAS something nc would have OK
noctcd from his own mother and that
made him marching through the Ia {:
DARKNESS without her, offer his ali 10
irat other mother of tho needy