Show WOUNDED REMAIN ON battlefields COUNTLESS THOUSANDS LEFT WOUNDED ON FIELD OF BATTLE IN nurses and surgeons Sur geona needed according to national director 0 of american red crox cross who ha has returned from war zone new york tho the number of bound ed in battlo in europe is already in tho the hundreds of thousands the hospitals or of paria paris sad d berlin and cottages on the battlefields are filled and many ober wounded lie exposed in lienchen ten tien ches chen according to ernest P bicknell Bic knoll national director of the american red crosa who arrived here wednesday on the steamship olympic from liverpool I 1 mr bicknell who left new york on the battleship tennessee the american vessel whish carried cold gold to americans in need in europe spent seven several I 1 weeks observing conditions in the countries at war official reports give little definite information of the losses but the number of wounded is already in the hundreds of thousands mr bicknell BIck nelI said I 1 the truth is that over the thousands of square miles already battle sept there have been left almost countless thousands of men helpless from ghastly bounds some have been gathered into trains bythe by the red cross surgeons and nurses and taken to hospitals in the larger cities into paris parts and berlin thousands have already been taken and one by one the hospitals have been filled public and private buildings have been utilized for the wounded but still the numbers increase some of the wounded wore were into cottages on the battlefields and into the churches but still there are thousands who ho lie in the trenches and in the held field suffering from and exposure let no man imagine tho the american red cross can do too much or enough nurses and surgeons are need more and more and also medical and hospital auppl s |