Deming graphic., 1919-08-19

ulation. We did meet Officers home
ly ON the move, we found them quite
as interesting as we had anticipated
and as thoroughly Franco-American.
They found but one fault with the
Americans: They were 10 reckless In
their fighting. The French had come
to the point where they had TO con-
serve their man power by less daring
attacks. But the British they did not
like and very frankly said so. IL
occurred to me that the old hatred be-
tween the English and French had not
yet passed away and the French, In
their weakened condition, did not trust
English good faith. One officers said :
They eat and sleep too much" And
he contended that IL the British early
In the war had pushed their operations
In closer coopertion with the French, II
would not have lasted out the second
year. II is evident that racial antip-
ithy plays a great part I'm this Ill feel
ing.
Rut we awakened one morning TO
find that there was no bread and no
meat in the village for either our de-
tachment or the citizens. Something
had TO be done. and quickly. Capt
Dean and l decided TO 60 10 Noisy
lessee. a suburb OF Paris and an Amer
lean regulating station. where we had
hopes OF getting transportation TO our
division and 10 obtain enough rations
to get us there. Then there was Paris
too. that Mecca to which all eyes were
turned. The villagers saw us off and
warned us 10 beware OF gay Paree."
But that Is another story. We arrived
at the junction point a Joigny where
we were 10 catch the Paris express.
Having few minutes 10 spare we
walked to the bridge over the Yonne
and were gazing out over its expanse
when we saw red cross sign over
the gable of warehouse ON the docks.
That looked like ratiOns TO us, so we
investigated We found the officials in
charge and ready and able to give us
the eats" But we had TO dig up the
transportation. We went to the Dis
trict major, kindly and intelligent
French colonel of artillery, who gave
us the use Of a canton and n driver.
We loaded this with sugar, beans.
flour. lard and some canned goods,
leaving our receipt, and saw Il ON the
road to our worthy and needy friends
and comrades. Then with a light
heart and a few francs we boarded
the train for the battle OF Paris. We
managed to stage a 2-day offensive,
when we recalled our business and
took a taxicab for Noisy-le-Sec. We got
what we wanted In an hour, wonderful
speed for an II. T. o., and also talked
the quartermaster at that point into
some more rations. These were de-
livered to us at the Gar du Nord the
next morning We dumped them into
a first class Compartment of the ex-
press and sat guard over them. A
trainman had the nerve TO ask us II
we had the compartment reserved. We
answer, "Oui," In chorus. when we
didn't even have a ticket. But the
Sam Brown belts had the trainmanI
buffaloed and we were not further
disturbed In our squatter sovereignty.
Things had gone right for us and
the hungry beggars we had left behind
were suitably grateful. We had one
more day with our friends in Guerchy.
when we again packed our musetts.
This time we knew where we were GO
ing. The rati0ns were so abundant
that we were able 10 deal literally
with our friends. Especially they ap-
preciated tbe sugar. The Red Cross
official at Jolgny informed rs that