standing-."
It was in the Department of Cor
reze and Crnae that a treat deal of
the work: of civilian relief was ac
complished by the American Red
Cross, -which, worked only at tha re
quest of and in co-operation with the
French, government The French
government furnished the lodplngs
for the hundreds of thousands of
refujrees, reforms and evaooes who
passed through here.
It was the part of the Red Cross to
furnish them with clothing, food
when necessary, medleal care and to
find work for them. To show the
magnitude -of the accomplishment
Mrs. Carter cites one instance. of
which there were thousands whose
dories night he told on similar -lines.
"I remember one woman," she re
lates. "Her name was Mariette.
When the-Gernmns came rushing for
ward on the spring defence now a
year ago she was in a hospital in a
town in northern France. Ten days
before she had been operated on for
hernia. She had three little children.
Her husband had been invalided
home and was able to do very little
for the support of the family.
"W7rm It was found that the Ger
mans would; arrive almost any time
she and her three children and her
husband were taken in an army ca
mion to the station, where they had
to wait In the dark ten hours before
they could foe loaded upon the freight.
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