Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1918 — ABANDONS SUPPLIESAIDS REFUGEES [ARTICLE]

ABANDONS SUPPLIES—AIDS REFUGEES

Paris, Aug. B.—“ The finest carload of supplies that ever came up to me —and I had to abandon it,” said Karl Cate, Y. M. C. A. secretary, when he arrived in Paris, dusty, worn, staggering from exertions and lack of sleep. “Our station was close to the front, directly in the path of the German advance. I just got my car unloaded when word came that we had to beat it. That car was loaded with American cookies and chocolate and cigarettes and writing paper and chewing gum and cigars. I had a camion and started’' to load with the idea of getting on board as many supplies as possible and saving them. I piled on just one box, and then it struck me thrft the Y. M. C. A. would look pretty rotten toting a camion load of suppli es back from the front when the roads were full of refugees and there were wounded soldiers coming back in numbers. So I chucked off the box.” He did chuck off the box and put in its place five wounded soldiers whom he picked up along the road. Every other available inch of space on his camion he jammed with women and children refugees from the invaded territory and set out for the rear. “As I left I yelled to the American soldiers, ‘There’s a carload of stuff. Go to it. Help yourselves.’ And believe me, they did.” Cate reached Paris with his camion two days later. He had driven constantly except for brief intervals of sleep taken in the ditch by the roadside. After a hasty meal, without a bath, withput- even a chance to dust and refresh himself, he started back to his job to carry what comforts he could to his section of American soldiers in the battle line.