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Few had more In the world than they carried. The of Intern- !.—President Ador and Red Cross sufferings long ment were written on every face, and heads at work. 2.—Great group of 9.11 had a habit of obedience the voluntary workers for the prison- acquired which was painful to the Swiss. Weary ers of war agency massed on steps a.nd sick mothers under the of Rath museum. 3.—Committee in struggled burden babies. charge of exchange of the maimed of whimpering soldiers. 4.—Keeping track of the Some had been so many years In Ger- or land and women and children adrift from bat- many France their native tlefields. 5.—Handling correspond- tongue were foreign to them; they were torn from their homes and were going ence for war captives. 6.—Answer- ing inquiries after the missing. 7.— to strangers, going God only knew Some of the 150 who fill out where. Some cases were even harder, k typists for there were young Frenchwomen record cards. __ χ who had married Germans in France and German girls who had married W WHEN the tear stained pagres Frenchmen In Germany and were being of of these ter- rtf Ë the story on to a of a driven out of their own country into ^ all five are volunteers, men and women, reaching them, amounted to nearly Is copied off card particu- in are founded at the home of factor to the expelled. Of 1.400 rible days Europe They Geneva, are then col- the land of their country's foes while of 200 or 300 ones as well, and the $300,000. lar color. These cards ▼ W read in the to come the Red Cross, the International branches Gustave Ador, president paid days Agency the white ones and the their husbands were detained as ene- work never stops. More than 150 type- The simplest part of the work Is lated with the .wo will be found For Prisoners of War. It was a Gene- the International Red Cross society, bright passages ''les friends are notified. Filed away, of the mies. the head of the noble work, writers are going night and day. exchange of the maimed captives, out gloriously and heroically vese citizen, Edouard Audeoud, who who is at all gleaming are called In and Germans But hardest of Is the burden which that the last is proving the Down to April 15 the number of tele- grands blesses," as they French, British, Belgians Jbrough them. Beside the angel repre- suggested the idea that the Swiss fed- declares has to Swiss. was more records at Geneva. alone, are no fewer than 1,230,000 white just begun fall upon the should ask most though all Is heartrend- grams received and answered the senting the quick unstinted generosity eral council the belligerent pathetic, This is the effort to the The letters of re- Hardest In Its detail work Is the cards. help unhappy will of nations to their civil war ing. than 35,000. Inquiry »f America stand the angel exchange was the ex- French and from the terri- numbered more than search for the missing, the co-ordina- Severe while It was on Belgians Switzerland. prisoners, women and children and So stupendous has the work grown ceived 1,800,000, nercy representing dead and wound- change of the civilian prisoners, old tory occupied by the Germans, the old and Is difficult to convey an adequate and most of them contained from fifty tion of the lists of the So soon as the war started the Swiss males under fifteen over sixty years it and now each of are Into Geneva men, women and children who had been men, women children, who, while its valiant of through Switzerland. That Idea of it. It started on Aug. 21 in Mr. to a hundred questions, upon ed. Inquiries pouring epublic, mobilizing age, after came that food Is becoming scarce, are being a the maybe the from all over the world. interned. Day day they by of men to the was and thousands Ador's home, but outgrew that in few which hung happiness, ittle army 350,000 protect proposal accepted from and sent from their home land. At of some one. The number of The name of every missing man In- the train load Germany away of its made the re- of such have been exchanged days and was moved to the Palais sanity, «.nctity neutrality, prisoners the rate of a train 400 or 500 a the or forms sent out In re- after Is written out on a white France. To prevent unpleasant clashes load, day, to the belligerents of as the result. Eynard. By Oct 12 it moved to letters printed quired narkable offer be are taken and of reached the enormous total of card with all the details given and the the different nationalities had to they through Germany Switzerland as a neutral But since then the movement has so Rath museum, th· main galleries ply iie whole of over of Switzerland. The received by name and address of the inquirer. It kept apart. The French were sent to landed the frontier for the wounded of all the war- grown that now it covers four other which were cleared out for it Soon it 3,319,000. parcels post lospital a of the the Germans to The Swiss have to convey them to th· the entire and now and forwarded to captives totaled In can easily be imagined what task one part city, ing nations. When that magnanimous great branches of work—exchange of occupied building, no fewer than The this Is. another, and they crossed the city by French frontier. could not be accepted and prison- maimed captives, search for the miss- it has had to rent other buildings number 1,571,000. iffer different routes. Mr. Ador has received the thanks oi near I money forwarded to prisoners from With all the belligerents the agency ers of war began to be numerous the ing soldiers and civilians alike, agent by. who did not know where has arranged to be furnished regularly Many were the heartrending cases. the pope for the work the Swiss ar« found a new way to help alie- for prisoners and intermediary for anx- At the beginning of the year there friends, they twiee 1 In now there where and had no other means of with all list· of casualties. Every name All were frightened, broken spirit. doing. nate the suffering. ious relatives and friends, and bene- were 800 voluntary workers,

tory of Europe has no counterpart to the situation of this young girl, who a Nation Green the of Its Heroes Baffles All year ago was worshiped by her people Keeps Memory Young ■ ■■ ■' Enshrouding Queen » mint Mystery ■ 1 as the star" of Luxemburg. ,·iâiiiiiSiuaeeaiimmÊllÊÊeÊ^ i1 "bright Months prior to the war her be- From the silence of sorrowful hour* trothal to Prince Henry of Bavaria de- The desolate mourners lighted the pontifical court at Rome, go, since both the royalties are fervently Lovingly laden with flower·, Roman Catholic and Luxemburg has Alike for the friend and the foe— been ravaged by antl-clericalism. Now what has happened to this romance? Under the sod and the dew, The last that was heard of Duchess the Marie was a story cabled from Geneva Waiting judgment dayj shortly after the kaiser's birthday. It Under the roses the biue, said that on that day Emperor William Under the lilies the sent one of his generals to her with an gray. invitation to visit him and share in the the birthday celebration. According to 60 with an equal splendor cabled story, Marie Adelaide sent her The sun fall kind wishes to the kaiser, but refused morning ray· to leave her palace. With a touch impartially tender So strong is the veil of secrecy that On the blossoms for ail- now enshrouds the royal castle none blooming knows whether or not the duchess has Under the sod and the dew, carried out the wedding which had the been arranged. Marie has a will of her Waiting Judgment dayj own and may have married despite the Broidered with gold the blue, terrors of the war and her voluntary with the Imprisonment on her royal domain. Mellowed gold gray. But, if so, what has become of the Bavarian in he is consort, if, truth, So when the tummer calleth consort at all? This is equally a part of the mystery. Prince Henry, It is On forest and field of grain is with one of the thought, fighting With an equal murmur falleth kaiser's armies. But even that much Is not known. The cooling drip of the rain- This situation has inspired all sorts Under the sod and the dew, of inconceivably fantastic rumors. One of these Is that the grand duchess, who Waiting the judgment day| is is to become tho twenty years old, Wet with the rain the blue, bride of Prince Joachim, the kaiser's youngest son. Wet with the rain the gray. Secret marriage, compulsory divorce, solemn betrothal and partings in grief Sadly, but not with upbraiding, and tears all have their place in the stories being told in this the most sen- The generou· deed was done. timental complication provoked by the In the storm of the year· that are fad war. If anything is known at Rome the Vatican is guarding its secret well. Ing No one has been able to learn anything No braver battle was won— one way or another. To add to all this, history affords as Under the sod and the dew, background the glamour of a for past, Waiting the Judgment dayj from the grand duchy of Luxemburg came Godfrey de Bouillon, leader of Under the blossom· the blue, Photos by American Press Association. valiant crusaders and founder of the Under the garlands the gray. kingdom of Jerusalem; the good, blind King John of Bohemia and Maria Above.—Veterans with their drum and fife band parading In memory of their Theresa, who, through splendid mag- dead comrades. Below*—Two veterans going over the roll of honor. No more «hall the warcry «ever netism and courage, won to her falling Or the rivers be red. cause the knights of Hungary. Marie winding Inland These in the of also is of the blood of William ΙΠ., one the flow of the river, robing· glory, They banish our anger forever of the beet kings England ever had. Iron have Whence the fleete of fled, Those In the gloom of defeat. When laurel the of out The father of Grand Duchess Marie BY they grave· Where the blade· of the grass Adelaide was William Alexander, last grave All with the battle blood gory, dead— of the house of Nassau, which the little ehe rule». prince quiver, In the dusk of eternity meet- the sod and the Grand Dush··» Marie Adelaide of Luxemburg and view» In the capital of country its stadholder to Holland Under dew, gave great on the ranks of the dead— William of Asleep Under the sod and the dew, the ha* been able to penetrate It. Many and to England Orange. Waiting the Judgment day| r ARDLY the moat ardent iancy Since the memorable day when Under the sod and the dew. all have failed. Her mother, the dowager Grand Duchess the could conjure up a romance war opened and alone, except for one have tried; Waiting Judgment day) Love and tear· for the blue, So Is the mystery Involving Marie Anne, was born a Portugal prin- Waiting the Judgment dayj picturesque and re- of her mlnlaters, she tried to order the profound the laurel the blue, of the duchess that cess of the family of Braganza, related Under Tear· and love for the gray. HΛ than of Marie kaiser's army back, the veil of mystery the destiny grand the one the A markable that | houses of at Under blue, and whether today she be maid, wife or to half the ruling Europe Under the willow the g ray, —Franol» M. Finefh Adelaide, the young and beautiful has covered Europe'» youngest the other the can tell The modern his- war or likely to be. Under gray. irand duchés» et Luxemburg i smallest queen. No war correspondent widow aon·