Show p enlisted under banner of the red cross they come from welt Weli todo teDo to do homes home and have exhibited rare hedum in devotion to duty equip 15 1500 00 hospitals hospital paris there them are now 66 9 women in the french rod red cross crosa volunteer army equipping 1510 1 hospitals hospital with an aggregate of beds the red cross nag flag no now 11 flies ab above buildings building in paris alone the he society tor far aid to wounded sol cism the largest of the three red bed cross organizations and aad the originator of the work in france 1 in 1864 expend a ed it 33 32 ta 6 durin during g the first seventeen months of the war the society h has s ope operated led hospitals with at b beds eds and give given a total of 21 des davs care cara to wounded 1 sol I them besides these them hospitals hospital the so bwy ini maintains maim a hospital of bed beds at Salo alki ninety three refuges eu es whitebait in the sixth and twentieth military regions in ft france am seventy in zinc fi fir mariea rise in railroad a stations suit and for far ty ill five railroad canteens the cost ol at maintenance of hospitals varies rise so much that it 1 la difficult to establish average cost cast per capita per die diem but as near as can be calcut calculated abed this society has brought its met cost down to a R little more than three francs fix ty lemal cents a do day 7 the union bihm do des bem fem femmel de franca n a d the second ed e d I 1 in importance or of f the tha red cross ir societies has 23 28 4 4 6 nurses equipping hospitals hospital with beds w while line the A association motion des dames F Franc alses he has 16 nurses 1 ID hospitals with 22 bed beds a the mortality among the rod red close batsie has been remarkably be heavy considering darbig the character of their work and it the 1 immunity y they are sup posed io to enjoy under the e international regulations twenty tw two members imbel I 1 of the social society tor far aid to the wounded soldiers have have given their icv lives to the cause some of the them killed under she shell 11 fire file others carried off by contagious diseases tb the M nurses ar 0 of I 1 this society it have receded att sixty ahrea epidemic me medals d ate sisty war par crosses and nd a one cross cros all 11 6 eelon 4 of honor ii the fired first cross victim of the war we was mile susanne gillea gille who fell at Lu neville with her chest cheat torn by the fragments of a shell that burst in side the hospital ward where she was attending 11 wounded the next was as mile hills cagnard at camb Cam bral 1 who is ie de claued to have nave been shot point blank black b by y a prussian soldier little firing filing ithe into b hospital P al 1 through brought the window during ng a dwinder nw inder duri the bombardment ot I 1 R reims me a even n inch women of th the rod red cross bo boade became ade vic tims thas of the bombardment including ame mme fontaine Font alne baudier hill mile causse M and ad live five sisters ot of charity many hway women of the red cross give nation attention t to men at the front who h have v no an one to leme remember the them at home one member mma line Ric helot the wife of dr by L G Ric helot holot I 1 ial god mother to nine nice hundred soldiers Bol diers which constitutes a record to date data regarding the tha state of mind of w wounded frundl soldiers now in the hospitals after ter sixteen to months the of war mr mine perouse percale president of the union des females de france said they support their sufferings bd ad mutably ind and arg am much more to return to the front than were the wounded tied in the hospitals last just year at this time they talk about active service br w with ith an enthusiasm that Is c contagious onto aioo mr me just justin godart god art undersecretary for we war in charge of if the sanitary affery it de e p part ment ot of the army has just r re placed voluntary women of the hed oil cross crass serving selling as aa nurses in some of the military hospitals by paid independent nurses the tb choice ot of nurses the tha three red cross croaa organizations de eloped considerable coc co comment c I 1 but them was in this thia no re reflection flen us on th the a devotion of red C crosa ro islas neither either does it t bring their c y into q es arc it tion paid drw professional comes um ara more or adaptable to military dipipi discipline which must prevail in all military arya es most ot of the women who devote themselves to has hospital biml work ara well sell undo todo classes cla Baes they are necessarily so bance inc they the or are required a to in give not at only their time and comet borne times in Z their lives but bat also their am money ey to the cause some of the them pay largely tor far the privilege ot it ing the coun try as amid madda of all work walk them others pay more dearly for far the privilege ot of war ing as surgeons burgeons alda aid and it as mir nurses few ot of them were bea before all the wa war r accustoms accustomed cus tomed to the hard work ot f house mu keeping and some same ot of them have learned tta its most elementary principles pies in the hospitals |