“During the last big push by Germans, the Chinese labourers working behind the lines offered their services to help the wounded, who were streaming back from the front in all kinds of conveyances. When official permission was given, they gave their own cigarettes and food rations to the wounded men they were helping. The wounded soldiers were greatly touched by such a kindly act, and one of them remarked, “the Chinese labourers have hearts just good as ours.”

YMCA, With the Chinese Labour Corps in France
YMCA Archives, box 204, folder: Chinese labourer in France p. 15