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Show MO LO K A I LEPERS PITY THE BELGIANS New York, Dec. 18. Three more surgeons will be sent to Europe for hospital service tomorrow by the American Red Cross, it was announced announc-ed tonight Dr. P. A. Smith, who will sail on the steamer Potsdam for Rotterdam, is a graduate of Cornell university medical college (1905) and has since practiced surgery' In Enid, Okla Ho will be third assistant staff officer at the Imperial and royal reserve hospital hospi-tal No. 8 at Vienna. Two surgeons who will sail on the htearaer Dwinsk for Russia are Dr. John Mann and Dr T. Lyle Hazlctt. Dr Maun is a graduate of the medical college of Virginia nnd has had experience ex-perience in New York City and Norfolk, Nor-folk, Va,, hospitals. Ho has been practicing since 1897 In Petersburg, Va. Dr. Hazlett has been practicing medicine at Pittsburg since his graduation grad-uation from the university of that city and is a member of the staff of the South Side hospital there. The. women's section for relief In Belgium tonight gave the information informa-tion that ?127 of the $35,000 Hawaiian contribution just raised came from tho lepers of the Molokai settlement. Mrs. Llndon V. Bates, chairman of the women's section, has sent to the lepers at Molokai several copies of the picture of Queen Elizabeth of Bel-glum Bel-glum and her message of grateful appreciation ap-preciation for their contribution, with the statement that, in her opinion, no contribution yet made to Belgium has been moro touching than this from the leper settlement. |