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TULSA DAILY WORLD, SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 1918.
French Repatriates Miserable Wrecks
When Sent Home to Die by Germans
1 VIAN-I,ES-BAJNS la a ebrm-
uue French town situated
near the Swim, frontier. Be
fore the war Evtan waa a
health reabrt. rivaling Alx-
les-BaJna. farther south. In Its stim
ulating climate and Its medicinal
baths. It waa a place where the rich
and the comfortably circumstanced
of almost every country la Europe
went to regain lost health. Now it
is a place where some of the most
miserable people In all the world
may be seen. For Kvian la the place
where Germany returns to France
those men, women and children who
are no longer of any use as prisoners
and slaves.
They are mostly the people who
were taken in the first victorious
rush of the Germans In 1914. As
long as they could work, or by
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threats and cruelty could be Induced
to try to work, the Germans held
them as industrial slaves. When,
through starvation, exhaustion and
dlseusa, they became useless to their
task masters they were returned to
France.
I do not know at what rate these
victims of Germany's ambition and
lust for world power are now com
In hack, but last autumn, and win
ter, when the migration was at its
hetsht, the repat nates were beliiK
Wive hundred to one thousand a day.
They came, through Sw Itxcrland, a
three-day's Journey, In rough hox
cars often without food or water,
uinl were nearly alwss, when they
arrived. In a condition bordering on
collapMO.
V let 1ms Are Wreck.
I want to tell about some of those
French repatriates. I shall not ex
aggerate or embroider the tale. It
hurts cruelly to remember thoso
poor people. It hurts to write about
them. Hut I want our people U
know. The next tints they sit In a
meeting where disloyal-so-called so
rlnllNts wimble their phrases about
this strutiife being a profiteers' war,
about peace by negotiation, and the
rest of It, perhaps they will remem;
her. Perhaps they will agroe with
me In advocating for every one of
these phrase-makers and profes
sional pacifists prison or a detention
camp, at least, for the duration, of
the war.
The French irovernmenl created a
VIMII Ml ii-muii iif nainiir hid i-w-uia
human derelicts which Germany sent
back through Switzerland. The peo
ple of Evian lent whole-hearted aid
to the commission, and all efforts
have been splendidly auguientod by
the American ited Cross,
When the trains came In at the
receiving station at Kvian there wers
always a certain number of the re
turned prisoners who had to bs
taken Immediately to the hospital
They were In advanced stages of tu
berculosis, they were suffering from
anemia and starvation and from all
the diseases a neglect. Worst of
all, many wonm and children were
found suffering from the discuses
of vice and crime.
Most Arc Children.
All these sick one go to hospitals.
The American Red Cross established
a children's hospital at F.vian, since
nearly 60 per cent of the repatriates
are children, and nearly all of them
need hoepltnl care. The French
have their local hospitals, and also
what they call houses of repose
where those of their countrymen not
actually sick hut extremely ex
hausted are cared for und put into
condition to travel farther.
The emaciated, hollow-eyed and
weary remnant who could walk that
far are. or were,, taken to the old
casino, where wealth nnd fashion
used to gather for bridge and ex
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mavor of Evlan mads a touching
tervh wflrbnilns; tha people back
to their native land, corotortlna; and
rherlnir them as well ns ha could.
Then they sat down to the first good
meal they had eaten, some i
for years. But -first tha "Marseil
laise" waa snnif.
"Arise, ohlldrsn of the land,
The day of glory has dawned.
Who could listen, without deep
stirrings of emotion, to men nu
women Just released from iirtnon
houses of 1'Mti ond horror bIhbiok
those words? I cannot Imagine how
they found volres to sing. They
could hardly speak. They Just slrt1
here dumb and broken, their s4l
eyes streaming with tears. Even
freedom and the sound again of their
own French language could not wipe
out tholr terrible memories.
Talcs of X'tUT Horror.
Some of the- reparations are met
at EvlaYi by friends and relatives.
Rome are cared for by the French
government, sent to towns and vll
Inges well away from the war tone.
Charity and the Ited Cross have
done splendid work for nil refugees.
h,.i twir nrohlema are often altnosi
unaolvahle. Hardly a man amung
ttm i. fit for Industry. As for the
women, the plight of many ot them
The individual stories of some oi
these women I heard from the UP"
nf a woman known mrouinu,
France for her devolod labors In be
half of victims of German soldiers
In Iho Invaded districts.
This notable Frenchwoman hears
the beautiful name of AvTll-Ht-Crolx.
1 mention it not because she
would particularly care to have me
do so. but because she is known tp
a great many women in America.
Madame Avril-St. Croix Is president
of the French National Council of
Women, and as a prominent suffra
gist has attended a numoer m m.i
In ci of the International Association
for Woman Bufrrage oi wmcu
American, Carrie Chapman Catt, is
president. Kvery one in i
In the United Mates who knows
Madame St-Crolx knows that she is
Incapable of mlstatement or misrep
resentation. What she told ma I am
absolutely confident was true in
every particular.
Fought For Her Honor.
In Paris there Is a house of mercy
established and maintained oy pa
triotic and generous French people
for tha rehabilitation of women ann
girl victims of Gorman lust, and
Madame St-Crolx is managing dlreo-
tni nf the eltt ahlishmant.
To this house was brougnt, aoom
a vear am. a woman wn. at me no
ginning of the war. lived with her
husband and five children In one of
th French cities taken by tne uer-
mans. They did not destroy this
cltv. bot occunled It and mads it a
division headquarters.
Madame Ioran we will call her,
because it Is not her name, lost her
nuaband's protection and a good
deal of her income at the mobilisa
tion. The husband Joined the colors,
and tha wife and five children made
a home in two small rooms of a ten
ement. The whole town was filled
with German soldiers,- and Madame
Doran had two men billeted to her.
Hhe moved her family into one room
and gave the other to the soldiers.
From the first these soldiers tried
to debauch the poor woman. She
successfully resisted them. They
moved on and two more soldiers
were billlted on her. They In turn at
tempted the degradation of this de
cent wife and mother. She resisted
these men also. is,)
Victim of nrutc.
For a year and a half she lived
with, her children In that room, sep
arated only by a tbln wall from lust
ful brutes whose orders were that
"the German seal must be set upon
the enemy's country." In other
words, they had orders t destroy as
many lives snd as much virtue of
women as they possibly could.
Successive German soldiers, this
brave and virtuous woman continued
to resist. Finally, after a year and
a half of fear and dread and contin
ual strugKle, the soldiers then In her
home went to their officers and re
ported her as a quarrelsome, con
tentious woman, one who made a
practice of insulting German soldiers.
Those unspeakable cowards and
brutes did this thing for revenge.
The authorities descended on the
woman, twk her children away from
hor by force, sent them to German
Institutions and sent her to work. In
a German-conquered mine in north
ern France. 'inero tne ultimate
misery became hers. Her husband
gone, her children torn rrom ner,
her home taken away, placed at de
grading labor, her spirit broken, she
fel a Drev to German lust at last.
Only by yielding to the soldiers
guarding the mine workers could she
buy herself the least privilege, only
by becoming worse than a slave
could she obtain the slightest sur
cease from slavery.
She fell. For about a year she,
was tossed from one to another of 1
the Huns In the neighborhood of that
mine. Inevitably she became In timei
a menace to health, and then the
llima in Herlln ordered her denorted. I
She was sent back through Switzer
land to Kvlan with a card sewed to
her rags, a card describing her as a
syphilitic prostitute.
Homo IatchCp.
She was too crushed with suffer
ing to make excuses for herself or to
tell her story. There was nothing
for the French government to do
except send her to a hospital near
Parts where such outcasts go to die.
Hut Madame Doran did not die. She
Improved under treatment, and her
distraught mind began to clear a lit
tle. One day Madame Avrll-St. Croix
came to the hospital. Her angel
pity and charity extends to the low
est outcasts among women, and she
looks for possible curuhlea among
hem everywhere. Attracted by the
pure beauty of this victim, for she
still retained some of her youthful
loveliness, Madame St. Croix spoke
to her, and finally drew from her
the terrible tale of her martyrdom.
At once Madame Rt Croix ar
ranged for her removal to the house
In 1'urls. There the bast medical
treatment, good nursing and kindness
worked miracles. Madame Iioran
Wait soon on the road to partially re
stored life and health.
Meanwhile, Madame St Croix had
sought and found the soldier hus
band. She told him what had be
fallen his wife and children. He
heard with horror, then he dropped
his head on the table before him
and wept until his sleeves were
drenched with tears. His bitterest
grief spent, he raised his head and
said:
Madame, whatever my poor wife's
condition, I can have no reproacheo
for her. I can remember only what
she was to me In the past, a true,
good wife. I loved her then and 1
love her now. Give ber back to me
and for the rest of her life I will
atone to her for what she has suf
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