IN THE RED CROSS 



work with it — certainly I should have been a smaller 

 target than many others. 



There was nothing for it then but to get into the 

 French Red Cross and French Ambulance, but even 

 here all there was to do was to drive officers about, 

 chiefly those of the French Red Cross. It was dis- 

 couraging. All applications to do something more 

 interesting or to be sent to the front were usually met 

 by the objection that I had been warned off the turf 

 in England, which to begin with was not true, and in 

 the second place what my troubles had been with the 

 English Jockey Club surely could have no possible 

 bearing on my having useful work when so many were 

 wanted. However, it was a repetition in a way of 

 what had happened when I tried to get into the 

 Automobile Club, and when I was asked to resign 

 my membership of the Touring Club of France. I can 

 assure you I did not give up wearing the uniform and 

 trying my best to get near the fighting until it seemed 

 futile. Perhaps after this is written and with a pro- 

 longed war my services may yet be accepted. 



Of course with the stopping of racing at the opening 

 of the meeting at Deauville there was a good deal of 

 hardship to those who couldn't afford the break. 

 Several of the Americans went away at once to the 

 United States, others very wisely kept their horses 

 there at Deauville until they saw what was likely to 

 happen at Chant illy and Maisons Laffitte. As a 

 matter of fact at the French Turf headquarters German 

 troops never occupied the place ; it was only a question 

 of a certain number of Uhlans coming in to see how 

 the country was defended, whether the roads were 

 open, etc. It wasn't a very pleasant experience, how- 

 ever, and only a very few horses were removed — 

 chiefly those of no value, and as I have said they were 



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