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Show BRAVE WORKERS ' IN RED CROSS - Women Aid Civilians and Pick Up Wounded During Great Battle. NURSES BEHIND LINES I Care for Seriously Hurt, Act as Stretcher Bearers, Carry Food to Soldiers. PARIS. April t As the excitement incident to the first tow days of the German offensive dies down, reports I come in of the bravery in the face of danger of various worlcrs in the Am-I Am-I erlcan Red Cross. Women workers of the Red Cross who were aldinc civilians in re-eon -j struction and relief work at Villequer, , ! near the river Somme, left their posts I I Just two hours before the Germans I j arrived In the town With their auto-' mobiles they aided in removing the civilians and picking up many wound - led along th roads The women were I i the last civilians to leave th town, j I Just preceding the French troops. Hospital Unit Chased by Huns. Another Red Cross unit, stationed in j a hospital Just back of the lines, was I . ordered to evacuate in two hours. They ; ' left at 2 o'clock In the morning and ; were chased for mOes by a German , ' aviator before reaching a point of safety. Tbe next day tbe unit went to a town near the fighting line and es-: es-: tabUshed soup kitchens for the troops I and first aid stations for sick refugees refu-gees and wounded stragglers. The ! I town was under continuous shell fire I and tho unit answered calls at all hours to give first aid lo those wounded. wound-ed. Nurses Work Day and Night. The unit then took over complete charge of the operation ward in a hospital, hos-pital, the nursing working in twelve hour shifts in attending to a dozen wounded soldiers who wre Injured loo ;rr-irnil v In ho mrrliit fmthpr back. The women also acted as stretcher stret-cher bearers throughout the hospital and took over a hotel In the town and conducted it for the use. of Red Cross workers and British and French ofUc- I rs. They carried tea and coffee to J soldiers on transports and wagons as they moved through the towns. Some Of the men had not had anything to eat for many hours, sleeping on their horses or alone; the roadside under all weather conditions Including a heavy rain American Doctors Stay at Posts. Four American army medical offic ers attached to a Red Cross hospital lehlnd th Franco-Rrltish front declared de-clared their intention of remaining there "until hell froze" despite the removal re-moval of the patients to points of saf-ety saf-ety by automobiles. The drivers of the Of cars returned with a few R 1 "ns. nurses and the nurses and the doctors worked night and day taking care of the seriously wounded French m. HrtUh troops brought In from the battle line only a few miles Uway Heavy artillery near the hospital fired over it and German airmen flew over It at night, attempting to locate the battery, and the hospital was in constant con-stant danger. Sleep was impossible for three days. The ambulance drivers picked up wounded stragglers and also aided 30U refugees in reaching a railway station They also acted as grave diggers and pall bearers for soldiers who died of their wounds. Save Scores of Lives. The Americans in this hospital saved sav-ed the lives of scores of soldiers who would have succumbed to their wounds had they not received immediate imme-diate medical attention. oo |