Bisbee daily review., 1920-09-29

recently returned from two and one
 haif years service in Europe, ar.
 rived at the Copper Queen Hotel
 yesterday. As the representative of
 Madam Alexander Millerand, wife of
 the President of France, Mrs. O'Bry- i an is here to prepare the details for
 drive, for the benefit of the chil. | dren of the devastated regions of 1 France
 With Mrs. OBryan is Miss Helen Ahern, also of the American Red
 Cross, who was recently decorated by the French government for the great work she did in the Rourges ! district, where for many months she I had 14,O00 refugees under her super vision. Mrs. O'Bryan and Miss Ahern on their way home from the Balkans through France spent the
 month of February this year travel ing over the devastated front. and are thoroughly informed as to the conditions there
 In an interview last night Mrs. O'Bryan said: T have come to your 
 French Childrens League. and of the Protection for Children of the Devastated Regions of France" The officers of these organizations in France are Madam A. Millerand. wife of the president of France, president; Madam Andre Lebon and Madam du Vivier de Street., vice
 
 treasurer. The officers of the Pro- tection of the Children of the Devas- .tated Regions (which is attached to the Ministry of Interior) are: Active Chairman. A. Millerand, president of France; General Secretary, M. Louis Mayer.
 The American officer is Madame E. Guerin: delegate and director for America, Leonel Ross O'Bryan. na- tional organizer, and Mrs. Frederick Masters. Chicago, Ills. treasurer The national depository for the League is the Continental and Commercial Bank of Chicago.
 The purpose of the organization known as the Protection for the Chil- dren of the Devastated Regions of France" is indicated by its name. The American and French Children's League was formed as the executive branch of this organization. The first purpose of the league is to ren der aid to the children of devastated France. Its ultimate purpose is friendship through understanding. That two great nations that have stood together as have France and America, each in the hour of it's greatest need, 1776 and 1917, shall never grow apart. By the aid of France we achieved this republic. By our aid France was saved The enemy did not pass, but alas. where ever he planted his standard, where ever he touched the land, there des olation, ruin and woe unspeakable followed. Four million people were rendered homeless. Two thousand four hundred cities. towns and viii are cities with populations greater than that of all Arizona in that dew astated area in which there isn't fragment of wall left standing. In Lens, which had two hundred thou sand people. with beautiful churches, fine government buildings, great schools, office buildings, shops and factories, and at her door the coal mines that gave fuel to half of France, the tallest bit ct wall left standing is not 10 feet high. All is ruin, and the mines-they were not satisfied to destroy the machinery, they planted explosives everywhere and touched them off, and then they turned tl/ river into the yawninG cavern. Today the experts say that it will cost millions of dollars and ! two years more of labor to put the mines into working condition.
 Albert. Arras. Amiens, Lille, Roubaix. Chateau Thierry, Verdun- but you know them; they We're the battlefields of this war. At Verdun last February I stood on heap of stone and brick and looked out to where four hundred and twenty thou sand Frenchmen lie entombed where | they fell in a wreckage so appalling | that the government stands helpless before the magnitude of it's task. l and four hundred and twenty thou
 sand men still lie where they fell, ] their graves unmarked. while all
 about are more dead. 12,0O0 graves here. 10000 there, 17.000 over be- yond, and everywhere a desolation so complete so overwhelming, that | you are lost in amazement that any
 one could have remained alive, but
 there. as everywhere. you find what is left of the civilian population, and with them the pallid children. In
 the devastated area behind the Ger
 man lines there was found, after the
 armistice was signed, four hundred
 and fifty thousand of these little
 martyrs of the war, your war and
 my war. the war for which seventy
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