Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-11-28 | Page 10 | Kreizler, He Slew a Cossack Lancer

KREIZLER HE SlEW SlEWA A COSSACK LANCER EW YORK Nov No- 28 Fritz Fritz Breit ter ler er an Austrian violinist of note t who ho served as a lieutenant in the Third regiment and was wounded in battle noar near L Touched reached d New NewYork NewYork NewYork York today on the thc steamer Rotterdam lie was wa accompanied by his wife ife who Nerved ened as a Red Cross nurse in tho Austrian Austrian Aus trian army I was wounded on the night of Se September Sep t 16 Ili said Mr Kreizler W While iJo resi resisting tin a char o of or Rus Russian ian cossacks I f was knocked sown down by a hor horse o and as the thc ri rider er passed over or nu mu ho he sank sauk his lanco lance into my mv richt thigh h. h It caught in my mv coat and l before ro ho a cou could withdraw with with- withdraw draw haw it I shot and killed him I laid aid aidin in tho the trench for hours until I was found I was v then taken to a hospital near Vienna and nursed back to health by my wife JJ Mrs Kreizler saw duty in German an and Austrian Rc Red Cro Cross s hospitals She camo came into personal contact with tho the American Red Cross units and she sho said that they were receiving unbounded praise c everywhere n I was told by both German and Austrian surgeons that tl tI o c American nurs nurses s could do twenty times the tho work that their own nurses muses could rould do and aud their system stem of ot handling woun wounded cr was waa simpi sim- sim pi wonderful