Show WHAT WOMEN I ARE DOING FOR SOLDIERS IN FRANCE Fight in the Ranks o of the Red Cross Against Pain Dis Disease se and Death They have ha known Yer very well the lisle risks ks s they hey were taking the taking the t two thou thousand apland and nd more women who have Hive gone o France ranee for varied services un C h e Ame American Red ned Cross and the more mate e than nan nine thousand nurses who whom je American Red Cross has ns assigned ign Wo o foreIgn duty under the United Stales Stale tnt s Army Armr and Navy Nurse Corps 51 The They y went under or orders ers as ns Soldiers do lo prepared for foz any as soldiers do they assumed many strange and unforeseen tasks as ml Biers do Literally they west as lighters fighters against agnin t pain disease diseased se and death m mA A mobile Amobile surgical unit of n rs those ose words dont don't mean very ery mu much perhaps the first time we ve hear henr them them But see such an nn unit follow a an n ar army to u-n u up an advanced post see ho e nurses work with steady hands beside the surgeons as os the stretchers w he be newl newly wounded are arc brought In la S e thousands of or l them In evacuation evacuation h hospitals hos- hos base o hospitals con ales hospitals tube cent t tuberculosis hospitals of them In French hospItals SOnic e nic military s where als s sometimes our oU men S are se l see them with their sent j I In head specialized skill surgery or fracture psychiatry wo work or or all these Keep b head ad and hand women keep who ilo when rhea the ambulances coot cool and ste ate ads d unload harvests har of or Wounded great t the words Then We we y Our stay Nurses Our as os We SoldIers Our Ma Marines Sailors O r I On n the night of or M March the arch 1 Germans were t fast f st adva advancing already y within six iv i a and nd Amel Armel eters no nn n Outpost of o of f C American t doctors th I der order of d' d who t the he FrenCh n. n i h hod ad sent the patients gove gO of ho hospital and pers perso noel bei night before Th The e farther back artillery ening bu t the Was d American oaf r- r sections ns kept brInging ll e to Annel cl their wound These and d long as the American docto doctors suld thai f them l m Wounded bo s 's br the t they T 0 nurses VOlunteered wOUld ope and so In the fro m C Com deserted two surgeons c the the ten drivers driver two nurses nUrse and t 1 I s w I l e the buzz or of c ably o the aeroplanes I all air and Ina the thc blasting sh h r the earth gUns buns shop k ra 1 I IO I Through three takings of Belgrade I first when the city was taken by the Austrians again when It was retaken by bj the Serbians and still again when It w was s taken back by the Germans ind pad Austrians together an nn American Red ned RedCross RedCross Cross nurse Mary Gla worked in the operating room In that first capture when nine thousand wounded crowded the wards and halls and yard of the thousand thousand bed bed hospital and doctor and nurse worked together for day a and night without t stopping giving to each operation an nn average of six minutes minutes minutes min min- Inspired Inspired Inspired In In- In- In utes an and employing emergencies by the desperate need of the moment they did not know that the city ha had been taken until all the stretchers brought Austrian wounded and Austrian doctors came to their I relief Several hundred women are workIng work work- lag Inc over there in hi the American RedCross Red ned RedCross Cross Cros's canteens There are about two hundred of or these canteens along the French and American lines of or communication communication com com- arid and the women are workIng work- work lag Ing under great re t pressure feeding thousands dS of soldiers The Red Cross Cros Is also establishing canteens by military mill mill- tary request at a II number of or Aviation Camps r American women conduct these stations comprising canteen and club nn and reading room Ever Everyone one of or canteens has something of ot tho the thc these e genIuS of home about It and It Is because of this no less than the thc fa- fa dUties for cleanliness and rest and refreshment refreshment that the French govern govern- government govern govern- ment nt has given the responsibility f for r maintaining canteens for bo h armies m to the hands bands of or the tile American Red Uell Cross in large lurge numbers women are going ns as hospital hut but worl workers ers also n nand and 1 as os social workers for trained service among awong the refugees and the At each cach base hospital the theT ned lied T 1 Cross Is equipping as ns thc they theyan built recreation huts for fOI conr con con- ran an n be v r sold soldiers leis Clerical workers have steadily In Increased In In- creased rd in number for tor the adminis t Native c cilices I From rom that original n of ot eighteen which as th the first fit iii lied Hell Cross Commission to tor r nce sailed about June 1st 1917 UBi has grown to a work WOI t t the he tin force of ot more 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