Show MERCY WORKERS IN WAR DOING GREAT SERVICES MI all countries striving to improve conditions surrounding wounded ORK MORK OF AMERICANS LAUDED motor ambulance service does invaluable bable work in transporting wounded soldiers french people touched by volunteer work of americans london to no one race nice in this war belongs exclusively the work of mercy france russia england germany nud and austria have each striven hard to improve tile the conditions surrounding uie the wounded in their armies in the ottoman red lied crescent a 0 mahoni hommedal equivalent of the red cross even the turks haie hae a corps of mercy workers to render aid to those injured in battle but not only the belligerent nations ure are occupied in the I 1 field of mercy toward fallen fighters america bilth all the cheerful optimism which characterizes her people hns bits worked vigorously to alleviate the sufferings of the wounded soldiers in france lr ance distant abyssinia tio too was one of tile first neutral countries it i place of succor for the injured near the firing line indeed the ethiopian hospital nt at Fr prevent event provided with fill funds fluids supplied by the abys sinn crown di dai great service i early curly in ili the war japan representing the far nast bast at also sent seat a wonderfully equipped ambulance corps has since occupied the hotel astoria Ast orlu paris dainty women and intellectual men haie hae given their time and their services eagerly in the cause of humanity the ladles ladies of the russian court self sacrificing in the extreme have been trained tor for hospital work in the held they have performed duties at which men might shudder and they have performed them well so it Is in france and england lind and in the other countries both in and out of the war that the majority of 0 the workers have been volunteers Is to the credit of civilization nercy mercy so often beaten under in the actual conflict of the belligerents lias has survived gloriously among those whose function has been to relieve where possible the victims of s shot hot and shot shell automobile great help like the fiero aeroplane plane the automobile Is a new departure a very important one in warfare since august 1914 it has played many parts armored cars transport lor lorries rier and other debt vehicles directly and indirectly cool contributing dibut to the success of 0 the different armies in the field have established a fresh reputation for the motor industry but it Is largely owing to the motor ambulance that the noble work of mercy lias has been possible so tar far as great britain Is concerned the motor ambulance service owes its existence and its triumph to lord derbys brother lion arthur stanley M P chairman of the british red cross society and also to the royal automobile club soon after the outbreak of war in september 1014 mr stanley quick to see the possibilities of the motor ambulance was mits given a permit to send one or two out to the front by the late lord kitchener the actual permit said mr air stanley wits was in lord Kitch eners own fland writing on half balf a sheet of note paper it Is now one of the most treasured possessions if not the most treasured in the archives of the red lied cross society ono one of the first things I 1 did on receiving the necessary permission continued mr stanley was to get together halt half it dozen volunteer motorists all members of the royal automobile club to drive the ambulance cars which we were sending rending to france our position was curious the motor ambulance was then practically no aa un known n quantity so far as actual warfare went and the military authorities stipulated that our drivers were not to wear uniform uni forin nor under anny circumstances to go near the firing line there was to be no red ked clohs on the cars truly the mission of the motor ambulance was to be limited they were simply to go about nr behind the firing line and pick up bounded men acho anho ho could not be eared to the field hospitals men foi fin ample ampie who had crawled for safely ito abandoned cottages and burns barns proves its worth with the exception of tile the american ambulance curs cars at neuilly ours were the first motor ambulance used in france lint flut the value of 11 rapid service tor for the he transport of wounded voun ded soldiers was as quickly recognized and now of course wherever there Is fighting there are motor am luli inces hero here Is a typical instance as told hy by mr stanley how the motor ambulance proved its worth in the early lays of the war late one evening one of our ambulances crept up close to the firing bring line they met an officer who turned then them back because as be said lt it Is so dark it Is no use going further they went buck back to a furin houe nod and to bed in the middle of the night thiv were awakened by the lie same olli oll who told them that a wounded soldier shot through both legs was lying almost in the german lines it was so dangerous it ft mission hut the officer order the ambulance to go goi lie ile just told them where the man was and left them to decide they went they crawled without lights along tin an unknown road in the dr darkness kness got almost within the german lines where they found the man and brought him back to safety that wounded soldier had lain there for days and would most certainly have died had he not been rescued that night in this modest and voluntary way the motor ambulance came into its own without one penny of cost to the government I 1 today went on mr stanley there are about 1600 motor ambulances and cars at tile the french front alone another 1000 fire are scatter scattered ed about with the lie troops in egypt egi pt mesopotamia sa malta kast east africa etc we hole have three ambulance convoys ench each one consisting of some sixty cars and a radio graphing convoy working in italy we ve have a number of cars in petrograd Petro grad tin and on the western russian front while we recently sent a small convoy as n present to grand duke nicholas in the caucasus these motors and ambut T es have been provided and their upkeep maintained entirely by volunteer subscriptions up to the present said mr stanley we have collected over for the red cross and st johns ambulance society the money comes in at the rate of about every six months this shows the public appreciation of the work our support comes from off nil sections of society As an instance of the diversity of our work it may be interesting to note that we arranged the other day to send motor boats to mesopotamia and charlie chaplin films to this latter for the amusement of the convalescent vale scent soldiers ersi 1 one of the outstanding features of our organization has been the splendid work lone done by the women mr stanley mentioned by the way the excellent artificial limbs for wali maimed fied soldiers produced by ameri man manufacturers both in the united states and especially at a factory established near london where many disabled men are themselves employed while the women of all nations at war have been working courageously in aid of their men american women also have come out brilliantly in the labor of mercy at the commencement of the war it a group of american women nearly all married to englishmen met together to consider how they might best render assistance to the soldiers of the king the result wa was tile birth of the american womans comans Wo mans war relief fund of which lady paget became president with mrs john astor ns as vice president the duchess of marlborough its as chairman and lady lowther and mrs harcourt as honorary secretary other women voin closely identified with the work were lady randolph churchill mrs whitelaw rell areld and ilon hon mrs john ward work of american women the american war relief fund began by sending a motor ambulance out to tile the front friends in boston subscribed for another it ns as actually the seventh which wits was duty duly presented to the war office in london down donn in devonshire at daighton ton near torquay Tor quay there Is an american womans comans war hospital tere here thousands of wounded soldiers have been nursed back to health not contented with these activities the amer allier jenn women in question have opened wor or krooms in various parts of the BrItis li capital to enable girls thrown tit in of work to learn other trades and 11 to become self supporting in spite af the alie war americans are busy helping in france its as well as in england and the american relief clearing house in paris Is elso an institution of wry very value ant and importance it represents the american red cross und and its distributing committee has a already apportioned more than parcels from bales of cotton clotius for men women and chIl children dreu shoes hospital accessories surgical instruments und and countless other useful things no less than 2000 hospitals in france have been fitted from the he american relief clearing house which has fins joseph 11 choate for its president modeled somewhat on the lines of the organization over which mr stanley presides s is the american Amerl cun volun toor teer motor ambulance corps yot yet another body of mercy workers in september tern ber 1914 prof richard norton of harvard university saw for himself the plight of the wounded french soldiers d I 1 ers who suffered additionally through inadequate means mans of transportation por tation consequently consequent j with the cooperation of some of his friends he started the american volunteer ambulance corps which quickly widened its field from two cars to seventy five originally composed of american and nd british members the atie corps has while always working in conjunction with will the french n riny army been placed under the british red ked cross owing to questions of american neutrality the volunteers of the alie american motor ambulance corps have given their time and their services uncomplainingly to the attainment of an excellent object under the chairmanship ot of the late ilen alenty ry james the novelist who directed matters from london many young college graduates freely entered the corps to work without pay or preferment professor norton ridgely carter sir john wolfe berry jordan L john dixon morrison Morr lson and many other well known men are members of the london coun ell cil mr norton and several of the men have been awarded the croix de guerre and the croix darbee dAr moe mee tile the former ranking high in the honors of warring and republican france working close up to the firing line the american Americ nn motor ambulance men have brought relief to many thousands of wounded and sick soldiers sometimes dashing about in country exposed to german artillery fire the cars car have not infrequently come thron 01 a hall of bursting shells but so far without tile the loss of a single life tin the only member of the corps to die Is A D loney who iho while returning from 11 brief visit to america was drowned in the sinking of the lusitania the american motor ambulance corps has been mentioned for tit iti discipline as well as for the high ard of its members generally lleti col leonard robinson in the follo following lv words narrates in a report to NI mr stanley some experiences he has lisul hall with the american volunteers ili iiii mediately med lately after our return from lizy izy sur states the colonel we called from the service de saute satire for an all ambulance to proceed to Coulom lers to bring back general snow who had been seriously injured starting with an ambulance and a pilot car anil and accompanied compa compart nied led by dr du do bouchot bouchet and surgeon major langle of the french urmy we left paris at about 5 p in reaching toward 8 p in the town hall had been but recently evacuated by the enemy and as the general was not in a condition to be moved we spent the nl night bt there the following morning an early start was made and ana general genera I 1 sl snow low was brought safely to neuilly Neu llly where he remained for several weeks with the trip to Coulom lers fers the period during which the service made expeditions to tile the front for the purpose of bringing wounded back to the entrenched camp paris came to a cloe and a new phase of duty was entered upon while the ambula ambulance nee was absent at alzy sur a cull call came from the british authorities asking that alliba lances be sent to their cl clearing station at villeneuve to bring wounded taken from their sanitary trains to parts paris no ambulance being available at the time an emergency column of touring cars headed by doctor dav epport was sent out bringing in a number of cases and inaugurating n service which oceL occupied pled all our time for several weeks the american volunteer motor ambulance corps has certainly done immense service in creating a very favorable impression on the people of france people beyond all others capable of kindness and sympathy but it has not been alone in this respect re tile the american Amerie sn ambulance tit at neull y known before the wor war its as tile the american hospital has also acquired the reputation of performing mir miracles neles for the wounded 1 1 I have visited most of the war hospitals in france sald a society woman who has gone through the war a as a brancard lere of the french red cross and I 1 have never seen such wonderful work many of the c cases ases are simply terrible worse than roy ncy where here else us as that performed at the american ambulance neuilly Neu llly there they treat dally daily the most critical burst sur ical cases some of tile the wounded men poor fe fellows 11 aws 13 seem eem alliot aloni away so little remains for Is |