Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-11-25 | Page 10 | Austrian Back from the Front

oo AUSTRIAN BACK FROM M FRONT New York, Nov 24. Fritz Kreisler, an Austrian violinist of note, who served as a lieutenunt in the Third U' . , -w ( ... m n.Aimrlarl til battle near Lemberg, reached New York today on the steamer Rotter- j dam. He was accompanied by his wife, who served as a Red Cross nurse in the Austrian army. "I was wounded ou the night ot September 16," said Mr Kreisler. "While resisting a charge of Russian Cossacks I was knocked down by a horse and as the rider passed over me he sank his lance into my right thigh. It caught in my coat and before be-fore ho could withdraw it. I shot and killed him. I laid in the trench for hours until I was found I was then taken to a hospital near Vienna and nursed back to health by my wife. Mrs. Kreisler saw duly in German and Austrian Red Cross hospitals. She came Into personal eontuct with the American Red Cross units and she said that they were receiving unbounded un-bounded praise everywhere. "I was told by both German and Austrian surgeons that the American nurses could do twenty times the work that their own nurses could and their system of handling wounded was simply wonderful.' oo