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Show mm m cnosG lfJIIPiSEO Magnificent Work Done During Austrian Defeat of June 14-24. BRAVERY IS SHOWN Members Defy Rain of Bullets Bul-lets in the Performance of Their Duty. Ky Trt Awvi.Kf.l I'MJAN KliONT, July -Th full .S eucy of tho work of lha Atrtrioan lied Ctvvsi tn lu!y Jurir.t the Austrian do-r.U do-r.U of Jun 1 - - I : I ft'vcr bo written. Sor.e of it li; n the ervriciw of onns Arv.ertcn oluntccrs in c.v tee: ,t ttd-vunOrM ttd-vunOrM po.s. who cook oil for every rom-tvat.vT'.t rom-tvat.vT'.t who ar;H.rt'vl until ordered to f .til Nvfc out of fin. More U tn the nur.ors of Ue.t (ro-a. av.u'-irv-? men. who ior i c ri days and rchts droe Llo:r freight throne ian-t.nuous ian-t.nuous sell f'.rv tM iv.i.-uv.il nu''!nnf pvir. a: lack. Tha reru.ur.dt-r is bitr:e,l tn columns of f gures at hi s jQ':ar;crs in from w hch, w ithin .1 few hours of th? first wr-iirc, svpphes wre poured a.;i,,: eve-v ro;d to tfu tr-v-i. h:"c-r- dawn 0:1 the of J .mi 1 te tirr Autri,i!i .h.vk o.nre. liehh'd t-.e wa'.'.r.g I-jJ'-n ariry wery four i-ec-i : rs of An;er.i'.iu Red (.Tvcs .'-:l-uLi:ices. 'r.ry of trie Ar.',e:.vr.s -.n duty were rew to lta'y and 10 wiir. Tho oiliers were v?.erin driers from the FYeiich front. toe of whom began the: orvioe lo:.g br:cre the l'n:ted States decarxd ur. Curious Tact Noted. T.e cur.ous t ict is that biem tW-rvcrc5 tW-rvcrc5 of the eter.irs and the Amateurs th?r suvr-ds too vy lut.e difference. Cooi-beaedr:e.ss Cooi-beaedr:e.ss ui'.-ier fire is oon learr.ed. if it can be 'earned At all; ar.d to balance the vetersp.'j exi.-er: er.ee the new man is frequently fre-quently tae more eaer, in a career in which the v.i!ue of eagerness runs a olose secord to cextenty and common sense. A re ; r . 1 1 - a i e to the Italian supreme command bv the e-crv.rr.ar.d. r o the An-.er-:an Ked Cross .vnbu".a::ce s-.'Ul:i No. the l.-.rgest of the four sections, takes ST-eci-il i:ot:ce of the acts o' a voUii'ttt-r. GoiU'hwaite H. TVrr. of N-tley, N. J., or. Cie r. zhi of June !4. He w as on duty at an a Jva-ieed ivf. which was hit by ar. enrmy shell, which derrrliihd part of tho huu.se ar1 com-r'e'.eiy com-r'e'.eiy covered his a-vb-ilane-v Returning Return-ing io the headquarters of the je-'tion, h there took charge of another ambulance ambu-lance and returned to tho field of bttl-. tn order that he nught eonur.ue h:s work ot pity. Bravery Shown. S The report of section No. 2 is f -V. of s:rr.ilar instance? of l-raver". John Waiter rv Xiiler. Jr.. of Keror, Ontario. Canada, f v.d Frederic J. Aerate of Scars dale. N. T-. ' were ordered to a front post. Arri vir.s: t at a cross ro.td they found it covered Vj-ivh bau-bed wire obstacles and two raa-c-e -urs in r'-i-"- ith the l:eip o: the rnachir. pun operators, oper-ators, they tore down p.nd opened the barbed w-.re, and ad-anced 3"0 nierers fu rt h e r . an d re a c h ed a house where the wounded were bijir.ir cared for wruie bai- lets of the two armies were raining all arourd them. Havnnc loaded their automobile auto-mobile with wounded, they returned to the stations, where the injured received rrs:-id treatment. At 3 o'clock on the rr.orT.inc of June 15, the commander of the section Judged by the intensity of the tern bard merit that a certain advanced post required a reinforcement rein-forcement of ambulances. four vnhjn-ttrs vnhjn-ttrs were detailed for this duty: They vr-r- Clarence F. Roe of Chic;. -m. 111., Icey F. Wolfe of Irvirirton-ort-Hudson. N. Y., Liucius H Iavidsori of Great Village. Vil-lage. Nova Scotia, and John A. Gordon In Rain of Bullets. They ad varied to this po?1-. m spite cf a violent enemy tombardment of shells and tear-ras bombs. (One of these men is now in Milan, bein? treated for a serious condition of the eyes due to gas.) TVs medical post became so dan? -rous during their work there that it had to be abandoned, but they continued to carry wounded, gathering them from the road. And th:a task was fontinud and acoom-p'ishrd acoom-p'ishrd by them day and night during the entire offensive. On the night of Jjne IT, two of the new volunteers who had just joined the section sec-tion distinguished themselves. Walter J. Feder of Cincinnati. Ohio, and Robert C. Cory of Newark. N. J., went to a front pot where fijrhtirjg was very fierce, and yere stopped by a colonel, w ho told them it wis impossible to proceed. At this very moment the colonel was struck and seriousty injured by a piece of shell. They earned him" immediately to a sur-if-a-l station; on their return they were stopped at a bridge of military police, who said it was fatal to go further; but, takir.s advantage of a moment's inattention inatten-tion on the part of the puards, they went on in spite of this warning, and succeeded succeed-ed in carrying a great number of wounded wound-ed from this area." Canteert3 Spring Up. Not long- after the fin-:t ambuLance Ns7nov&d. American Red Cross canteens XJrig up at favorable sites just behind lines. Ten canteens had been In op-er.fon op-er.fon under the department of military affairs for months; seven more were added add-ed immediately. The emergency group was placed, equipped and directed by E. Harvey Carroll, American consul in Venice. Ven-ice. Out of a loru? experience in Red Cross relief in that besieged city, Mr. Carrol was able within twenty-four hours to gather and ship through the teeming zone of operations enough coffee, cigarets and chocolate to supply stations where the diiJy average of men served was sometimes some-times as high aj 300. Kach pot was directed di-rected by two American Red Cross men lr that purpose. Early in the offensive a death occurred the American Tied Cross forces. Lieu-Jnant Lieu-Jnant Kdward M. McKey of New York Oity, who had taken the first American canteen to the Italian front lant winter fcnd who had lately moved to a site on the Piave front too hazardous to be entrusted en-trusted to younger men, was instantly .tiled by a shell on the morning of June 17. lieutenant McKey was buried the next day, his grave marked by a plain wooden croy inscribed wi;h his name and rank, like the rows of Italian dead beside him. A tfrnaJl American flag has been placed beside the cross, and throughout the bat-U'i bat-U'i his Italian, frienda kept fref-ih flowers n the grave. Rest Houses Built. Besides these canteens in the very ce.n-of ce.n-of the busiest fire, there were other aid equally busy Red Cross rest houses at tiie railway stations in the rear. At j-he-'-ji net ions t ired columns of men on . r'y to a short-time repose encoun-J'-- frewh trcxjps inarching toward the ;,atUe. At one important junction, where the -n-jopd of three allied armie, emerged and separated for their various eeetors. an Amtrrican lied Croa canteen had been hastily perched under a spreading tree opposite the station entrance, looking for all the world like a youngster's lemonade stand on a circus day. Here an American Ameri-can woman volunteer worked day and night. The most difficult moments of that Job were the times of passage of hospital trains, when steaming cauldrons were transported to the station platform and cups of hot coffee held to the lips of men too seriously hurt to move. Otherwise, Other-wise, the daily and nightly vista there, a-s elsewhere, was one long succession of dust -covered colmuns, brown faces ana hungry mouths. Big Problem Solved. On the shoulders of tho officials ct headquarters in Rome rested, chiefly, the problem of transportation. Supplies that had been stored at some distance from the linos had to be moved to the front, and the vacancies filled from below. Already Al-ready northern Italy had been covered with a network of stores at strategic points and emergency communications marked out. When the attack came, within three hours after the early news reached Rome, the emergency mechanism was at work. By railroad, by automobile, occasionally by boat and frequently as the hand baggage bag-gage of Hed Cross officers hurrying to the front, supplies moved forward. A procession of laden camions started from centers in northern Italy. Thus every department of Ihc Red Cros-3 worked as a unit during these davs of excessive stress, each Ani'Tican working work-ing in harmony with his Italian comrades com-rades Loward the victory which was uppermost up-permost in tho hearts of all. |
