The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1946-02-21
First British War
Bride For Garrett
County Has Arrived
Mrs. Lillian +. yelling And Son
Came to Mt. Lake Park Last
Week After Rough Voyage

Mrs. Lillian F. yelling, %, the
first British war bride for Garrett
county, and her son, Melvyne Jon,
aged years, arrived in the States
aboard the Queen Mary last week.
They are now at Mt. Lake Park, at
the home of her husband, Forrest X.
yelling, and his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Wiley w. Yelling, where they
will reside for the present. Her hus-
band met her in New York.
Although Mrs. yelling is much
enthused over most everything she
has seen in the United States, her
trip from her home in England was
not so pleasant. According to her
opinions she was another victim of
the apparent scrambled plans and in
efficiency of the Red Cross and the
American army When asked what it
was like at the reception camp in
England and also on the boat, she
said that the condition of the "MaIy''
was satisfactory but that conditions
at the camp were deplorable." She
related that upon arrival at the camp
from the train the wives with and
without babies had to sit in an open
bus with wind and rain pouring in on
them for four hours before they were
admitted to the reception room. I've
had had no food from 2 p. m. until
1 p. m. for either ourselves or om
babies. Our babies first meal and all
the following meals for a week con
sisted Of powdered milk. Service was
IS nothing, with German prisoners
of war supposed to wait upon us.
Mud was ankle deep and the
mothers had to carry their babies anc
! stand in line in the rain for as long
as an hour at times to obtain some
thing to eat from the one-timc army
mess halls. We had to carry oui
children through the rain from one
building to another for processing
and mcdicaIs, while the German
prisoners rode around in covered
buses and trucks.
But things improved after mucl
protest and after several brides haC
returned to their English homes, un
able to stand the conditions. Their,
were two cases Of pneumonia among
the childrcn.'
Mr.. and Mrs. Wclling'S son Mel
vyne, is at the present time confined
to his bed suffering from lack of fooc
of the two weeks previous to thei
arrival at Mt. Lake Park, and ma,
have to be moved TO hospital il
| Cumberland.
Mrs. yelling was a Londoner bu
was evacuated to Norfolk during tn
1911 Blitz. Mr.. and Mrs. Wplln,
met at a New Years party in 1874
and were married the following April
Mr.. Yelling returned to the State
in July, 1915, and will leave shortl,
for Fort Meade where he has a posi-
ton with the U. S. Civil Service.
Mrs. yelling seems particularly
pleased here with the articles she i
able to purchase which she had no
seen in England for five years, sucI
as ice cream, bananas, dresses, higI
heeled shoes. She expressed aston
ishment over the speed of trains il
this country, (She came from Ney
York on the National Limited), mucI
prefers central heating in homes a
compared to multiple fire places il
England, likes the automobiles am
everything in general about America
She declared she was also happy owe
the friendliness of people who ha
come to see her since her arrival a
! the Park, and over the warm wclcom
of her husbands parents, Mr.. anc
Wiley w. Yelling, with whom she i
making her home for the time being
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