In 1917, the Germans sent back into France through Switzerland all those they are unable to use in factory, trench, or agricultural work. The little town of Evian on the French/Swiss border received a thousand of such rapatriis a day. The Red Cross worked amongst these French or Belgian rapatriis, a large percentage of whom were young children. The American Red Cross focussed many of t June Richardson Lucas, a Red Cross Nurse, worked with her husband, Dr. William Palmer Lucas, Professor of Children's Diseases at the University of California, in the establishment of the American Red Cross work for the children of France "The children are so pathetic: many of them without their mothers, just sent along in a crowd in care of the older women, and some of them are too little to know their names and the old people have forgotten. To be four years old, to be six years "Six hundred and eighty Belgian children arrived on the morning train. all these children, thin, sickly looking, alone; all of them aged between four and twelve. The boys were livelier than the girls - the little girls of ten and twelve, in c "Men who have been taken from 'No-Man's Land'- and it is a terrible place, that land between the enemies' trenches and our lines - but that little sobbing child comes from just as terrible a place, - 'No-Child's Land