Show herbt ME RbT WORKERS IN WAR DOING GREAT SERVICES countries striving to improve conditions surrounding wounded WORK NORK OF AMERICANS AMERIC hNS LAUDED LAUD ED motor ambulance service does invaluable work in transporting wound ed cd soldiers french people tou touched c ched by volunteer work dorkof of Amer Amerl liana rans i london to no one ral nil v in this i war belongs exclusively tho the clrk of mer mercy c Y prance france russia england Geri miny and austria have each striven hard to improve the conditions surrounding the wounded in their itri armies tiles in the ottoman red lied crescent krescent a maho hommedal hom in equivalent of the red cross eveni even the alie turks n corps of M mercy ercy workers to render aid to those injured in battle but not only the belll belligerent grent nations are dueled in the field of mercy toward fallen fighters tera america with all the cheerful optimism which characterizes her people has worked vigorously 0 alleviate the sufferings of tho the sold sod lers in ili france distant dis fant abyssinia too toli was one or of the first neutral cou fairles to establish lf place of succor fw fr ahe injured near the firing line the anglo ethiopian Ethl at F Fr event provided with fund star piled by the abys crown crown pra lit dip dl great service early in the WM japan representing the far east also sent a wonderfully equipped arnIt am alance lance corps which hns since oc the hotel astoria paris daurity women and intellectual men tibt given their time and their services egl aly in the cause of humanity the adles of the rus russian court self in the extreme have been trained tor for hospital work in the field they have performed duties nt lit ch men ten might shudder and an d they have performed them well so it Is in france and england and in the other countries both in and out of the war that the majority of the workers have been volunteers Is to the credit of civilization mercy so often benten beaten under in the actual conflict of the belligerents er ants has survived survive il gloriously among those whose function has been to relieve where possible the victims of eliot and shell she automobile great help like the aeroplane the auto automobile mobile Is a new departure A very important one in warfare since august 1914 it has played many parts armored cars transport lorriece and other vehicles directly and indirectly contributing to the success of the different armies in the field have established a fresh reputation for the motor industry but it Is largely owing to the motor ambulance that the noble work of mercy has been possible so far as great britain Is concerned the motor ambulance service owes its existence and its triumph t to 0 lord derbys brother lion hon arthur stanley M W P chairman of the british red cross society and also to the royal automobile club soon after the outbreak odwar in september 1014 1914 mr stanley quick to se see e the possibilities of the motors motor ambulance was given a permit to send one or two out to the front bythe by the lute late lord kitchener the actual permit said mr stanley was in lord Kitch eners own hm handwriting on half a sheet of note an paper er it la Is now one of the most treasured possessions if not the most treasured in the archives of the red cross society soc one of the first things I 1 did on receiving the necessary permission pon continued mr stanley was to get together half a dozen volunteer motorists all members of the royal automobile club to io drive tho the ambulance cars which we were sending to prance france our position was curious the motor ambulance was then practically practicably an unknown quantity so far as actie actual al warfare went and the military authorities stipulated that our drivers were not to wear uni uniform forin nor under tin any v circumstances to go near the firing line there was to be no red cros crom iz on the earn cars truly the th mission emission of the motor ambulance was to limited they were simply to go about far behind the firing line and pick bick up wounded men who could d not no be mr ear ned to the field hospitals men fio fi 4 ample aepli who had bad crawled tor for safety flito abandoned cottages and turns proves its worth with the possible except exception lon of the american ambulance cars nt at neuilly Neu llly ours were the first motor ambulances used in prance but the value of a ra raad P d service for the transport of wounded soldiers will was quickly recognized and now dow of course wherever there Is fighting there are motor em bu balances lances here lafit typical lil instance as told by mr St stanley auley how the motor ambulance proved its worth in the early lays days of the war late one eveni evening ngone one of our arnau lances crept up close to the firing line 11 ae they met an officer who burned turned them buck back because 1 as he be said bald it Is go eo dark it la Is nt use going further they went back to a farmhouse and to 0 o bed in the middle of the night ht were awakened by the om who told them that a wounded soldier shot through both legs was as lying almost in the ahe german lines it was so dangerous a mission that the officer would nf order the ambulance to go I 1 he just told them where the man was and left them to decide they went they crawled without lights along an unknown road in the dar darkness kliess got almost within the german lines where they found the man and brought him back to safety that wounded soldier had lain there for days and would most certainly have died had ho he not been rescued that night in this modest and voluntary way the motor ambulance came into its own without one penny of cost to tile the government I 1 today went on mr air stanley there are about 1000 1600 motor ambulances and cars nt tile the french front alone an other 1000 are scattered about with the troops in egypt mesopotamia sa Alt malta ilta east africa etc we have three ambulance convoys each one cOnsist consisting log of some sixty cura cars and a radio graphing convoy working in italy we have a number of cars in petrograd Petro grad and on the western russian front while we e recently sent a small convoy as a n present to grand duke nicholas in the ille caucasus these motors motor hurt and lv es have been provided und and their upal upkeep maintained entirely by volunteer subscriptions up to the present said air stanley we have collected over for the red cross and st johns ambulance the money comes in nt at the rate of about every six months this shows the public appreciation of the work our support cornea comes froth from all sections of society As an instance of the diversity ot of our outwork work it may be interesting to note that we arranged the other dayto send motor boats to mesopotamia and charlie chaplin films to malta this latter for ifor the amusement of the convalescent vale scent soldier sl one of the outstanding features of our organization has been the splendid work done by tile the women mr stanley mentioned by ithe way the excellent artificial limbs for malmed maimed soldiers produced by ameri man manufacturers both in the united states and especially at a factory I 1 established near london where manyi many disabled men tire are themselves employed while the women of all nations at war have been working courageously in ald aid of their men Amee american ican women also have come out will brilliantly a antly in an the labor of mercy at the commencement of the war it a group of american women nearly all married to englishmen met together to consider how they might best render assistance to the soldiers of the king the result was t the he birth of the american womans comans Wo mans war relief fund of which lady paget became president with mrs airs john astor as vice president the duchess of marlborough us as chairman and lady lowther and mra airs harcourt as honorary secretary other women closely identified with the work were lady randolph churchill mrs airs whitelaw relland hon Mr mrs sJohn john ward dorkof american women the american war relief fund began by sending a motor abbu antici out to the front friends in ilos boston fodill subscribed for another it wrt was 1 actually the seventh which was duly presented holthe to the war office in london down in devonshire at near torquay Tor quay there Is an american comans womans war hospital where thousands of wounded soldiers have huen been nursed back to health not c consented 0 n 1 with these activities theamer 1 kiin culi wamen women in question i have opened workrooms wor irsom krooms s in various parts of f the british capital to enable girls thrown w n iut ot at work to learn other trades and II 11 to become self supporting in spite ut of the war americans are busy busi helping to in F radee france as well at as in england arid and the mue american rican relief clearing house in parts Is also nn an I 1 institution of very considerate value and importance it represents the american red cross and its distributing committee has already apportioned parcels parcel 1 s from bales of cotton clothes for men women and children shoes hospital accessories surgical instruments and countless other useful things no less than 2000 hospitals in france have been fitted from the american relief belief clearing house which hall haa joseph 11 choate for its president modeled somewhat on the lines of the organization over which mr stanley presides Is the american in volun teer motor ambulance corps yet another body of mercy workers in september 1914 prot prof richard norton of 0 I 1 harvard university saw saw for or himself the plight of the wounded french brench soldiers who suffered additionally through inadequate means of transportation por tation consequently with the cooperation of some of his bis friends he started the american volunteer A ambulance M corps which quickly widened its field from two cars to seventy five originally composed of american and british members the corps has while always working in conjunction with the french army been placed under the british red cross owing to questions of american neutrality the volunteers of the american motor ambulance corps have given their time and their services uncomplainingly to the attainment of an excellent object under the chairmanship of the late clenry james the novelist who directed matters from london runny many young college graduates freely the corps to work without pay any or preferment ermert professor sor norton ridgely carter clr ir john wolfe berry jordan L boft john dleon morrison Morr lson and many other well known men tire are members of tile the london counell council mr norton and several of the men inen have been awarded the croix de guerre and the croix darbee dAr mee the former ranking high in the honors of warring and republican france working close up to the firing line the american motor Ambula ambulance uce men have brought to many thousands of wounded and sick soldiers sometimes dashing about in country exposed to german artillery fire the cara have not infrequently come through a juill hall of bursting shells kut so so tur without the loss of a single dingle life tilt the only member of the corps t to die la Is k A D adloney DL loney oney who while return returning lj from it brief visit to america was drowned in the sinking of the lusitania the american motor corps lias has been mentioned for it discipline as well as tor for the high ard of its members gene generally raily bleim col leonard robinson la in the following words narrates in a report tu to it air stanley some experiences tie be has had with the american volunteers ili immediately med lately after our return from auzy uzy sur states the colonel we called from the service de sante asunte for tin an nin ambulance bulfin ce to proceed to Coulom lers to bring back general Gene raJ snow who lind been seriously injured starting with an ambulance and a pilot car and accompanied compa nied by dr du bouchet and surgeon major langle of the french army we left parts at about 5 p m reaching Coulom lers toward 8 p m the town had been but recently evacuated by the enemy and as the general was not in a condition to be moved ye we spent pent the night there the following morning nn an early start was made and general snow was brought safely to neuilly where he remained tor for several weeks with the trip to Coulom lers the period during which the service made expeditions to the front for the purpose of bringing wounded back to the entrenched camp parts paris cume came to a clo close 1 se and a new phase of duty was entered upon while the ambli ambulance ance was absent at alzy sur a call came from the british authorities asking that ambulances be sent to their clearing station at villeneuve arlage to bring wounded taken from their sanitary trains to paris no ambulance being available at the time nn an emergency column of touring cars head headed edby by doctor davenport was sent out bringing in a number of crise cases s ind inaugurating a service which occupied allour all jaw time fota for several everal weeks f the american acan volunteer er motor ar art t balance corps hns has certainly done tin immense service in creating a very favorable vor impression on the people of france people beyond all others capable of appreciating kind kindness ness and sympathy but it has not been alone in this respect the Amer american leRn ambulance at Neul liy ly known before the war as the american hospital has also acquired the reputation of performing miracles for the wounded 1 I have visited most of the tae war ifon hospitals in france said eald a society woman who has gone through the war ax a a of the french red cross and I 1 have never seen such wonderful work many of the cases are arb simply imply terrible worse than anywhere else as that performed at the american ambulance neuilly Neu llly there they treat dally daily the most crit critical leal surgical cal cases some ot of the wounded roen men poor fellows seni seeni almost blown away so little remains for treatment |