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Show TUB ITFnALD-KKPUTUJrAX- SAT.T r,AKE CI TV. , n PL C--- - r-- ; - 5 I- i ;7 Tr- at V"V - - ; ':.- si Li iii'.-. - -- Ni J r- - KJ'.l..- ij;-- - . . ;.-',:S- 'f V 3V -- -- :;:i-gs ' Hp) ? yi J V', 0 li .0 Ulil is f fP' r J.oH.OB-Mrti- A f in H 11 The Scottish Red Cross Flight and Capture in Serbia, and How a Gallant Young Lieutenant Won the Hearts of His Prisoners by His Treatment of Them. ft "-- . rr fl n SUNDAY, APTiTL 9, 101(1 iiyy li U V-, V-V- W 1 r -- O tl if TTT ATT. i:Vi XAJvr I Sketch Made . 'AV'". . U I Jf I Austrian jj l&ikrl aVw W'V.' - - . k v Scotch Nurses Who Went Through the Ordeal of Flight and Capture in Serbia. v Tor .1 .-- !n thing of value we ,- Serh'sn Arid of operations a party of Brit- lsh Red Cross nurses who had the Greatest thrill of the war. Taken prisoners by the Austrians in the TeUcnlc advance into Serb.a. these nurses from tho Scottish Woman's Hospital witn hcurtquarters at tho town of Laxareratz. had a terrible Journey of eight weeks through the snow-claAlbanian mountains in their desperate st rustles with nature to reach the Adriatic coast. In following the retreating army of the Serb3 this little land of heroic women daily sufTereJ umoid from exposure and hunger as death constantly menaced them. While British plack was a tremendous factor la sustaining the nurses on their the a,i -,":"" wpitv In that tne r:::1 IV"J 1 T I X from h d aies :" furhiPv:;; and ceaseless efforts of ,... rLiVL"sihif.": f ler. the Austrian officer whu waa made responsible for after being captured. The nurses say Uxat Lieut Schiller's r.ever-failin- s courtesy and willingness to help in every way possible the terrible ordeal made themduring will- ing captives of the handsome Aus- oiTIcer. whom they called their -dearest foe." As captives rf the Austrian army was pursuing the retreating Serbs, the experiences cf these Scot- tlsh nurses can be con.pared in many respects with Napoleon's famous re-treat from burning Moscow, or with the march of Xenopnon. the great Greek general, who, more than 2300 years ago led his valiant little army of the immortal Ten Thousand through Mesopotamia and Armenia to the Black sea, and thence to their homes in "the dear little land or the Aegean. nurses secreted a Union Jack, which !f , V,f . .... t. . . q.v,, was who put ler lho Austrian officer tn charge of our party, I don't know have done. He did we wo-:l- .n W 1 :.t d ;nat ibly could un(ier to make us CGmfortabie. Lieut Schiller was so t 0urteous. He didn't treat us like an enemy at all. and we called him our 7'" circumstan-e- s V?g 1 -- dearest foe "We were to do the Journey by bul- -anlock wagons but no wagons unwe got peircd. Aftr three days ..o-s Vit.H ilerway. WC . , JUUIU'-JC- ven to adventurous own r i Balkan peninsula, of our marcn was a ".I- - of ever in were end i.very , r MI R . travel- - , completely out of tourists in tracKS . incaisiuuvu,. " U the c :i ' "xh . Troad was a mass of men. mo- artll tors, horses, oxen, wagons and heaas Hvinc snake with t ti-road coiled across tho the for scales, mountains plains, zigzagged up the Into and writhed down again flowed valleys through which of tolling, sufferrivers and streams and wag-trlaMotor-cartng humanity. m the deep ons lurching franticaliy human the through mud pioasjhed peas-tha- t and tlood. Thfcngs of soldiers and djiioc ants, with army wgons n be-ru- " M V. - . ttd-smellin- g ' A v .A I, o uj--the- s carts intermingled, streamed r.lon.? tbe winding, restrictedwallsroadway, rising with steep mountain on tne and one side, on abruptly other a prccititous descent shelving to the rushing river below, Route, A Corp.-Stre- wn "A through our terrib.e march, at irequcnt Intervals, furious blizzards 0f sicefc and blinding snow broke over U8 addins cruelly to our diffi-Hoculu3 and tcrrlole hardsbIP3- - Agal" and again our vehicles broke down. completely blocking the narrow road anf ;nmmin'r tha human stream for miles back. Along nearly the whol route I saw corpses of human beings and the carcases of horses and mules that had been killed in accl- dents or had died or nunger or ex- posuie. "Such were the daily scenes we witnessed as the army, accompanied by an enormous horde of refugees from all parts of the country, strug- gled on its weary way through the mountains. Peeling Potatoes in the Prison Courtyard at Kavavara. n w a band of heroic women per-formed a somewhat similar military feat 13 vividly told as follows by Miss Laura Hope, a member of the pavt.v of Scottish nurses captured by tho Austrians and imprisoned at Kavavara: "When theAnstro-Germaadvance In Serbia had expected long the Serbian army everywhero was In retreat All the Britisn lied Cross hospitals were ordered to ieave. and tho Scottish Women's Hospital went by the last train. Wo proceeded to Krushevatz, which place was said to be safe, but tho Austrians came and captured us. Our bearts sank when they took every-- r.f mir -lournev the snow nnrt Ve up for supper and a few hours rest was three or four feet deep. blazed with thousands of campflres. water came up to our armpits. "We traveled nearly every night, clothing froze to our bodies, but we usually getting under way by 10 could not always stop to buildorfires, ex- o'clock. Often it rained all night Fearing death from hunger The guns which had been firing all posure. we were compelled to plunge day frequently continued durins the- onward day and night, night and seemed to be getting near- Kill Hor,e. ot Food. er to us. We were wet to the skin an3r 0U' horses became and up to our knees in mud There starved broken beau and p.actl-was nothing to do but to push on At one piace ine roaa uescenaea cany ail or mem went lame, iater In violent hairpin turns, which were they were kmed for food, too much for the motors, many or seenled that our ma h l nlnnsrr-fdown" the mountain- whlrh --7 out- in the worst weather no. - M11H II IK. UlOuULLAl XZA IU tUn UlUi carried . . .n .. U . A m. oCKIrx anA rynaa .woo a Kloal-- mwl uemsiono oi us wem uumj umt, uui Pit-etated country. During a blizzard we got a lot of bumps and bruises. tlless rains made the steep roads found refuge in a dirty, old dilapi- rery slippery and tumbles were com--- dated hut, which we shared w:th a mon ftnd usually laughable experl- crowd of refugees. The snow arntea in tnrougn tne wattled ences. "So we plunged nlong through the walls, and altogether the night was ncw nmeousiy uncomionaoie. we man fastnesses of. the barren. covered and uninhabited mountains. aged to secure a little straw which There was no shelter against the ter-- served' as beds. It was impossible nhiA tad, but one of the ... i - - v . i , i Lieut. Schiller, the Young Austrian Officer Who Was in Charge of the Captured Nurses, and Whose Courtesy Won Him the Title of "Their Dearest Foe. . not enough food for Itself, and that night I nad italf o fil,X y the plight of these thousands of a baked potato. miserable men, driven about like ( "During our Journey we little cattle with neither food nor shelter, frequently met hundreds 'AX.'r . children. All of them were pale and , tir. Dn,i ,o,r f devouring the raw flesh of horses t had fallen by the roadside and they had not had anything to eat for that died of exhaustion. three or four days. "In proceeding through the moun"By the time our Journey was hall tains to X r Ipek we used over we had nothing but what we in a blizzard and stood up In, which wasn't anything We left that town we again reached the to brag about We felt lucky if we by the time snow was sev-the t could find any kind of shelter to mountain passes and travel almost im- feet eral deep TV sleep under and a piece of old carover We went Velaco a possible; pet for a blanket hie' mountain about RftOft feet hieh. "One night our party became sepa- - rythe higher altitudes the blizzardconIn a blizzard. Blinded rated and worse was than ever and our sufI fused by the enow a half a dozen of ferings were increased. If that were ... us stumbled onto a village. We final- - possible. ly found shelter In a hut where we A Friendly Voice in tho Dark. v, discovered that !our Serbians had was ticklish work It leading a been Just murdered. ac a alou narrow, icy niht Our party was. united the next hoTe cliff on one a AS with we mountain for hours path, day. After resting again got uncier way. Our road now- side and a raging river on the other. took us over the fatal. plain of Kos- I recall that whilo we were trying rible cold which was often several to sleep, for we were miserably wet sovo. Now we began to meet great to. negotiate a dangerous bend a of prisoners. The army had voice called from somewhere out of degrees below zero. For a consider- - cold, tired and hungry. For supper Snll . w - pack-ponie- r s. the darkness: 'Hello, there! flow We caught up with you get on?' the owner of the voice, who proved to be a Montenegrin soldier. He had been In America for a short time and had acquired a little English mostly oaths, as we soon learned. "When wo reached Andrievltza we had expected to be taken the rest of the way by motor, but floods and broken bridges made that impossible. At this stage our supplies practically gave out However, when we arrived at Podgoritza we secured sufficient fresh supplies to last us until we reached Scutari. Fiom that place we had to walk to San GlovanI dl Medua, a distance of about 200 miles. "After a march of about two months we finally reached the coast Our many hardships told on us plainly, and we were as lean as bears In spring time. Upon reaching San Giovanni dl Medua we learned that all the provision ships, sent to feed the starving people, had been sunk a week before by a submarine. "We were expecting an American ship to take us to Brindisi, but an Italian ship was first to reach port Sir Ralph Paget a British Red Cross commissioner of Serbia, made all the necessary arrangements to enable us to proceed to our homes. "The first square meal we had after' leaving Serbia ten weeks before was upon our arrival at Waterloo Station, London. "When we got back to civilization you can't Imagine what a real Joy it was to be able to bathe, eat and sleep In. com-fort after weeks of exposure and dirtV and going as long as 16 days without being able to remove our clothing." Among the many amazing ope ra whlch hayo latelr be Per- formed is that of taking a shrapnel bullet from the right auricle of a man's heart. This was accomplished . n. ; n j ., v iS- - t i bTttons tabled spTecihatTt as and coins embedded in the lungs, the brain and the liver to be extracted, 110113 ' The nutmeg is much used by doctors as a remedy in weak digestion. If one has a keen appetite he does not need nutmeg, for appetite is the most powerful stimulant of the. . flow a ii a t 4.. t 11 tae appetite 13 oi gasvnc juice. not good the digestion will be feeble, and then the addition of a little meg will be found of benefit ' , a. , nut-ban- ds |