Republican farmer., 1919-06-20
ANGL0-AMERICAN ENTENTE LOOMS
 BIC IN EAST

Constantinople, May 2.---By Mail) The Anglo-American entente is no idle dream. Out here in the Near East 1t has taken practical form nel from Athens to Rome, to Constan- Wherever an American needs help, wherever a representative or groups of American relief workers need a lift there bobs up a courteous British officer or soldier intent on cementing the entente.
 Do American Rcd Cross personnel need to transport supplies or person. tinople, to Asia Minor, to Saloniki, the Rumanian coast?t There is room aboard a. British destroyer. sub chaser or motor lorry. For meals and transportation no charge is made.
 The Balkan traveller strikes a lonely town in nid-Siberia. British officers take him or her into their mess. They her way with a liberal supply of canned goods for the trip and place 8 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-
 
 come to the conclusion that the "li- lmey" after all is pretty good old skate"
 At Saloniki 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 or 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 superfne and the Sunday night concerts as wondrous almost as the army version of ''The Chocolate Soldier in the park near the Pera Palace hotel
 ! In Athens officers and men of both English-speabing countries toll up to the Acropolis together and in Rome the Young Mems Christian Associa- tours for the city include both Tom
 mics and Tanks in equal measure ! In Macedonia the American Red Cross men jocularly 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 IFucPOi IeSo IrOIil buISdrla m NOVemD Der, 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 but 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 transportation by rail and put their l lorries at our disposal. Anything
 you say about what they have done | 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 ] for the relief of Greece reached Ma | cedonia-
 l Our whole Macedonian expedition would have collapsed had it not been for the British. The British forces ! had occupied eastern Macedonia and | knew it's desperate need" 1 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 | American army couriers, United States Food Mission officers, Near East Relief Mission personnel ir | Asia Minor and Armenia and mem bers of the Balkan Commission Of ths | American Red Cross all tell the same | stories of Kindness. courtesy and the khelpins hand.