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THE WAR TORN DISTRICTS OF FRANCE
A PATHETIC APPEAE
TO THE EDITOR OF THE.",FOXGKONG
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our
Six-May I ask for space in your enlumas to appeal to Hongkong to whose generosity in war enuses I can person- ally warmly testify-fer help to stricken Allies in the war devastated dis tricts of France. If they were not "left only with eyes to wer with they had not much else. for their houses remain mere piles of stones and rubbish, their conve fyllitful 6-lds are laid waste; their fruit rises have been murdered in cold blood? Their wells have been choked with filth and even corpses, while their inhabit ants have suffered every form, it' would seem. of human inisery.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23RD
WILE
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found myself in the toner. mercies of two
Dae of my soldiers, a wider, whom b dene old women, One was an old maids of ruited in his ruined farm no Prayart, is f 77, who. cuntled to me that she had seven
living in his cellar with his little 12 skirt on her slim individual sit
The child was at Proyart! easier to carry then that way! The other year-old man
with
ugl parent, vince Wax and grandmother of who had had left
father,
fighting) We eleven children, worked hard all her end whifg' his
when it was "aracuated in March 1918 at life, but a beautiful light ente into her face every time she spoke of her past happiness the time of the grant German drive and the She was returning to a rained sillage near bastle of she Summe. The chikt Bed with Albert with the two women, us with all the Piss ui the pitiful herd German refugees, it was the same tale. Exacin danes flying low fred with machine guns ence, wice, even three times, according to the retigres, killing and wounding the Rucinations of the
hero battles,
maty. In their taste, all parasts and to hi and there, living in strange plass, in dis haft by the roadside. The child, however, contort and anhappines, often among an
*Th astonished popastion quite overpowered by and reached, Paris Safely,
(rather was on lane in his hume, so we took inrush of this panting human her new running their wall towns and shelled at the time, when the father return the bag in ufs Then, as Paris was "Being
villages. backed any at the necessition of e. finale in the mutry.
And yet they reskiftil that they had nogs End as the traput, ch. Fath Byllew out made me think of the works of Christ, this poleemly trinach, Tite par sonds could not man does not live by head ainne heredetire their y when they wakat Love even more lo he not to really-live, ing in the midst of their sins. They just
After Amiens, the traïs took me due cast, heamed at
Ah, ruinient, Mainme, and then the battlefield began.-shell botes, nu ne s'attendait pas à vous voir sei! He Barbed
entanglements crenches and garder, Madamus, 9 qu'on a fait de rua belle dugoits, then grass. Some litary forme "Ah, ces salles Borhes***{ ti hadi indented by Lity crosses, nestled low along his bonis a well-to-dis in, with battle the line, flere and there whole new chuses held implements everything that taries had sprung up.
te belong tha As we passed by familiar districts retingees would pop up and down from hair he is living in his cellar, a deep and Meter crit dark and damp plače, where no Bre can be village de A..!**
De man Bion?
nade. They have built up invented." Als chere, regardez ndege maison de Muse there why they hope gradually to patels up two of the Mais1 fool nimest tempted to say-a bed, but 'est qu'il ne reste cien!
glow of reultation on their faces is they
At stations, elt they were gearing home.
en the train, they would meet friends or acquaintaners from neighbouring villages, and would ask for news of each and al: Un Tentre: theg would exclaim triam- phanely
-it rente •* *• Qui depnis huis jours, et Delpierre must
ne rest plus grand chose, vols savez Eh bien, tanı are travailler."
I can tell you many other similar tairs D13, 00 le Fen le travail A sort of of hardships, all equally d. all bravely jays would gain con- after another- | bornes For instance, of the poor woman. they were going home though it be to whose two little boys died of vold during. quity
Qui, un renom
the evacuation, She is home again now with her listhe daughter, but the house is very sad, and will never be the same again. The remembrance of a tiny green-faced babe of seven months-ban the size of w normal baby of thromantis--haunts mej It was being feil on Bread and capioen. milk being senten. Condensed milk will save many infugts' lives.
While working with the French Bed Cross in 1913-18 and 17, I saw much, of thk ruin and sorrow, and can neter cease
to be grateful to this Colony for the help they sent through me, to our brave, complaining Affies in response to a letter to which I did nyc even ask for aid. can never tell you how far-reaching this bet was, for certainly half of it was of the moral kind rogendered by sympathy; The weed of assistance is at least as great now as it was then, und, the souper
it is given the sooner can the people start, their own industries and carry un without help He gives twice who gives quickly."
wuts.
Et
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futh prosperun-
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rooms of the farm house, that eng be made labitable, "ind mwve up there. But for that she father needsa man to help him for the hild is still to young to do much—and sune materials, such as plaster, tar paper. nails. eze. I am helping him to get those things, for he "hagen, the time" to plant and sow being now here, v
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Very many societies in France,, Eng land. and America have taken 'up this Now let me self 195 maneching of the work of re-establishing the ruined dis lives of these brave people who have gone
bome.
3 new sort of To me they tricts of Northern France, and these pioneer, more intrepid by far than way organisations have been coordinated | pioneer of old setting out in a new country. under the Ministry of Reconstruction of as of yare in Americh. The tusk before
them is
is suupendas. It will take years and the French Government. Rut I am only years of work to nerive at eren an approxi
Une pathetic comply "of pioneers I know asking for aid for two particular dis-mute result, yet they nadertake the task
is that of a pour old man with his blind boy tricts, whose restoration has been under resolutely. taken by my own friends, and in parts Their houses are in ruins, tie euntry of 16, who were angng the rst to retura A. I talked to the father, where, to my person! knowledge, it is so about them is still the uptort battlefield. Eto, their, hume,
have described, with its dugouts, it the boy hungrily devoted on big stick of DAIRY surely needed.
munition ring
choyolaze | Kad given hing. The part near No au and Compiegne i trenches, its
His sightless graves, Gas at bayonets still the just na eyes were turned on me as I held his beau ably lunked after by the Fund for French War-devastated villages of which ex- they fall from some woldier han. and
tiful sender hand in min E questioned President
the father as to what the Bay would do to Taft is president, and to which spades and pickaxes, too ensty now for use. society i belong. This is my own partiAll the doorder, all the destruction, all the
help Oh. pas grand'ého "ma *** cular part, as the French Government wana waste of war! The trees stand ont
dame, tout ce qu'il soit faire c'est de pou allowed me to visit it, shortly after the against the sky mere rushcnised skeletons.
Si je lui dispouse," il poussé, amis German crucuation in
We did a No imagination car picture such utter ruin.
my and desolation. deal of work there before the enemy
It does not look like outje ne prit rien lui faire porter, car il est
nervous, {} laive tout tomber ! " reoccupied it in 1919, but much of this
planes. effort was lost for the Huns system soldiers of every nationality, French, Engldest n both soldiers, had her last haby Then grapes graves at every" turn, of Then a women with her husband fad her cally destroyed, everything the bad time for, in order to prevent the resumption ish, German, all reconciled in death! The born in a collar while she was flying from
the Germans S tour or rundreds of kilometres. 1 by the is sometimes give a name, ne dimensions, hand grenades and uses,
busne could no longer
Apur bat come one undamaged house, church, 2.
Sume left standing, and there was scarcely
an
every step, nerows country dangemat
woman,, before whose house she passed, agricultural implement or
moking
etery day accidents oerar: It is imposible opened her door to her, and hid her mer- utensil left in the district.
to inugine the formidable work of levelling rifully in the cellar, while the rest of her uther part for which I ask Hong once more the soil and grazing it to he family had to press and abandon her.
plongbed. ear Armentières, where help is near
Ah. Madame," she would say, "J" ai Of the 18 villages I saw. fo have may the work of restoration has been under
pleuré nuit et jour penilicat trois semaines! taken be Madame Loyson, the wife of the houses left standing, none are intuct, If a Et low Borhes venaient me regarder par le well-known Frencit poet, playwright, and back, Doration into lure allow-suptrail, or jo me blattiais tout contre le Sometimes it is a cellar, some- nur aver mon petit, et j'ai croyais chaque A. Llemenceau's paper). Madame Loysun turned her house in Paris into a convaleĮ no winduws, of cull, and plent the holes scent hospital during the war, and treat and cracks in the walls. ed there over 1,40 soldiers, an
through und ruin unter pitilessly These they patch up with mich whom ce from this which i receiv:/ Cakes the place of glass: the hote Diled ingennity: am sending you an
paper ed from her lately,
it tells more upped up with anything that comes to
As I knew
Full many of these nen and some of their families while they
in the hospital. I feel Paris in
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Pand
were in
are
avait dit que les Boches tuaient les femmes ec les petits enfants !!! Now soldier father. und sick soldier son are both home again. The file'cellar-born bay is strong and well, but the mother is exhausted by all her suffer.
these poor peo- band. They start clearing up their tag, and much muss be done to build up her.)
af the debris of the ruined
health if she ever finds health again
I will conclude with a case that I think
Sometimes they find new and sacred 2 of the soil that cannot be dislodged-soldiers will appeal or your heart. It is that of a
have been buried
there.
Inexploded shells.
pinterest in their enase
suzgested that a bazaars have said, make the upturning of the
Be
Not
little flow of 19, who picked up, some three
It has been should held-perhaps in December-inul very dangerous, and they must workxeurs age in this halda, near Hazebrouck, a urder to raise funds Excellency the fun wula "tally, all of a sudden, von-
for these two or exitions. Then the ruined houses shining article that he thought was a und
whistle. His parents told me that this-had canting another danger.
"been dropper, as other similar objects, from bas generously; offered the use of Government
1 stick of Traiture for the purpose,
remains in enemy, aeroplane, The children of the and his cuperation in the work
hese houses, so when the inhabitants first righbwrhood had picked dem up, think. May I ask that all France's Allies in back they shop on the ground, Catering that they were toys, and many accidents the Colony especially t
the Chinese. Aperisters make beds unt of old boards with wire burl the urred. This child was very can. Portuguese," Japanese who have lawn across, and contrive mort ingeniously seriously wounded in the chest and face, one already so vitaly helped in the war, will arrange a home. but their destitution is
eve was torn out, and his left hand sa Could greater love of home exist badly mangled that it hard to be amputated Join us in this work of sympathy and
han is shou restoration.-Yours, etc..
by tha
the poor mu? Evident- only this powerful we could make such
imdi-diately. Lutammation in th socket, had peymicated vecéral operatione. a effort possible. They eling to the very
ut of earth us
to save the other eye, and after each upg where they were born id fived and suffered; they feel they ran r nowhere else,
are the ones who have borne the unt of the war. Should we not help them We can, just to get them started again? mpared with what they have lost; let us e utmost we can do for them is as nothing least help some of them to get to work
HARRIET OSGOOD TAYLOUR. Hongkong, 21st October, 1919.
[ENCLOSURE.]
PARIS, le 26 Avril, 1979. DEAR SIRS. TAYLOUR. I have just return- ed home from a visis to a few of the the relief of the rained families of devastated villages of the Somme; and as diers forms now, and is more and more bound to form, ac important part of my
I wish to tell you about it.
eye
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DINNER
On
DANCE
Saturday, Oct. 25th, 1919.
DINNER...
DANCE
$1.00
$1:00
Anyone entering the Dancing
ets held them the rep, invisible in the little is would confide to his Room whether ther wish to dance
és more.
back their tears?
of
The French Government does all it can, On leaving Paris I at once found myself Fracce is poor now, financially ruined surrounded at the station by refugees. It the war. Indemnities will be given later was too early for my train and I sat in zbryg bat they cannot prasibly be sufficient
My heart had who will give them midst for a couple of hours. always ached för refugees. They bave some St. Elizabeth of Hungary, put it). Just thing
apologetic. in their to w humble demeanour, álas ! they have an often been to gute up the cost of the contents of home And now the price of unwelcome gunts; so few people have really
has incressed whiold, moreover understand their distress, their utter bything now muufactured i
ythin wilderment, their prin at having had to serior quality, in spite of the exorbitant their homes, abandoning everything theys. There is also a shortage of working that made up their lives. They ds, so that labour can demand any price. have been mostly so brave and uncomplaint I would like you to understand ing, yet their suffering has been intense nitude of the cask and the differities of is the sad it has always seemed to them that no execution. Facing it, it is hard not to one has really understood it, or sympathised in hapels despair to se:zo one.
they should.
(iv voulez-vous.
The reisedy is Madam,"
to act resolutely to work and they say sadly. ceux qui n'imply and studfastly all one can, and sont pas pass ne comprennent past
this will be a blessing and a Ever since the beginning of the war
why obé
owned
Pand
K
has seen these sad droves deeing before they ambition is to succour at least my own ertery. Now I was seeing them in a newer convalescents (that have now reached light these brave souls were going homymer of 1,100) and their families. again. They have long since learned to wait is wonderful hou
much now for interminable hours at the station,
ก little help will bring
cour them,
un their impossible parcels all their richesan supplying a little clothing, soute Uid baskets meaded with string and wire, or shoes household utensils ar gar. potato bags hulging out on all sides
Vegetable eers I give put pots and pans, linen and shoes, their clothes, and bed covers. They had come from disively just now, and these are receiv
eth enthusiasm, tant regions of France, and had already travelled
one or more days. They marker back from Germany, co king liten the village of one of my soldiers, n yot longing apathy disappears and the rm warte that one pat or pan har
their quiver
for sympathy. At the least word
into life again, and, taking passere five or six families. One family sion of you, they pour out their tale is the meal hastily, and passes the fian the next. Ah, Madame," explain poor fellow, si vous aviez quelle
il faut quand les 'gosses ont faim
all so vital to them that they can thint of nothing" else.
One look of interest, and they seem to clutch on to you, so I soon
የፓ
father. You know, father, I "ean's are And no-one has ever had the cper- go to destroy the child's hope that me day his sight will return.
or not, MUST purchase a dance supplied him with a good apparatus, band ticket.
We have just
can learn to work and be independeat. He and hook, and every contrivance, so tha: he is now very happy in the thought that he will henceforth be able to help his mother, { who is very poor.
These are merely a few snapshots of the
Tables for DINNER may be booked. Our dancing room may be hired for private Dances;
vision of desolation. I wonder if your Masonic Banquets, Evening parties any other Social Function.
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in Hongkong, so many thousands of miles away, can realise what a tremend disr aster it all is. For people here in France, Appeal to you in behalf of my brave sol only fest, miles away, can hardly do so. Apply to the Manager for terms. diers and their families, no less deserving. who are now iring heavily on my heart, for I have seen with my own "yes what it all is, and can speak knowingly. The war is not over for them as it is for us; a new, stern warfare against material difficulties bas gas dull colourless, exciting little pity. It was relatively easy to give, even ti the point of positive ancrifice, during the war, when all the Allies were supported by the dramatic of the åght. Now we fall back among the ruins, and to build up the country' again will require a much energy and work
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ax it took to win the war. These people will leave for NEW YORK via and, they do it with superh spirit. But there must face years of hardship and crifice, is no excitment about it now glowing.
Panama colours. I know that the charity of your friends in Hongkong, who have already 28th. not emotional, and can beat the test of heng generous to French hospitals, is et fading of that vivid glow. Shall we not keen on helping ali we can, and thus prove to those who have lost all in the war, as to our own selves." that "Charity ever faileth. Your very sincerely,
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