Orders also arrived soon for the removal of the Salvation Army workers in Broyes:
“Headquarters, 1st Division, G-1.
“American Expeditionary Forces,
“June 3, 1919.
“Memorandum: To Mr. L. A. Coe, Salvation Army, La Folie.
“The hut, which it is understood the Salvation Army is operating in Broyes, will, for military reasons, be removed from there as soon as practicable.
“It is contrary to the desire of the Commanding General that women workers be employed in huts or canteens east of the line Mory-Chepoix-Tartigny, and if any are now so located they are to ’be removed.
“The operations of technical services, Red Cross, Y.M.C.A., and other similar agencies is a function of this section of the General Staff and all questions pertaining to your movements and location of huts should in the future be referred to G.-1.
“By command of Major General Bullard.
“G. K Wilson,
“Major, General Staff,
“A. C. of S., G.-1.”
In Tartigny they found a house with five rooms, one of them very large. The billeting officer turned this over to the Salvation Army.
There was plenty of space and the girls might have a room to themselves here, instead of just curtaining off a corner of a tent or making a partition of supply boxes in one end of the hut as they often had to do. There was also plenty of furniture in the house, and they were allowed to go around the village and get chairs and tables or anything they wanted to fix up their canteen. The girls had great fun selecting easy-chairs and desks and anything they desired from the deserted houses, and before long the result was a wonderfully comfortable, cozy, home-like room.