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Wasp 1FoilPS“MadeOffer to Write Home for Solingdiers With “Lame Arms”If NecessaryBLONDhistory aDISTRIBUTE MUCHyears ofREADING MATTER ! cast intcSick and Wounded Yanksplace bytivenesslast fewCominer Into England InIncreasing Numbersof this the worl was all many.”BY W1. J. BUTLER.LONDON, Oct. 5.—Since America’s participation in the great warhas become more active the past fewweeks, American soldiers, sick andwounded, are coming into England in.3nnl-it.e-l-oincreasing numbers.A great part of the American wounded come to London, while others are distributed in hospitals throughout England at Portsmouth, Liverpool, Winchester. Soon the large American Red Cross hospitals at Salisbury, near Southampton, will be thrown open for Americans .In London the wounded arrive at the various main line stations on British hospital trains along with hundreds of British and Colonial wounded.“Fags” (cigarettes) are a necessary requisite for the American and Allied wounded. The soldiers often receive cigarettes as they detrain and are permitted to smoke as they lie on the ambulance bed for a ride of from one to four miles from the railway station to the hospital.Most hospital trains arrive in London at night, and the ambulances,with their brilliant headlights and roomy, electric lighted interiors, are a familiar sight in the London streets.The pedestrain catches a glimpse of the patients through the open rear of the ambulance and often sees American wounded lying at the side of English, Australian and Canadian Tommies, all cheerfully smoking cigarettes and craning their heads to catch a view of London, which most of them are visiting for the first time.Wounded CheerfulThe American wounded cheerful and optimistic lot. number of them come from of the line where they were with Australian soldiers.are a A large sections grouped The Amirl-IIr,ofofaisfileseleofoferofericans and Australians have developed a great liking for each other and the alliance which they have formed on the battlefield has been carried into the hospitals, where they are always found swapping yarns.As soon as the wounded reach the hospital their arrival is reported to the American army medical service and to the American Red Cross. After a few days they are usually evacuated from the British hospital to one of the new American army hospitals in suburban London, one at Tottenham and the other at Dartford, each having a capacity of about 3,000 beds.American women visit each hospital daily and distribute American newspapers and magazines, cigarettes, chocolate and various delicacies from the stores of the American Red Cross. Every woman visitor also carries a supply of American flags, which please the men greatly. In the British hospitals in London the bed of each American patient is decorated with a small Americanflag.Writing material also is distributed and the women write letters and do anything they can do to make the men comfortable. A considerablepart of this work is in the hands of the Red Cross care committee, of which Mrs. Robert Peet Skinner, wife of the American Consul-General, is chairman.Ambassador’s Wife.heformerEnglisha eu-beli-ofannd*e-ci-o-ieftatInenMrs. Page, wife of the prominent American and women often drop in on the boys informally, going in and out of thewards, unsupervised, talking to the men, laughing with them and offering to write home for any fellowswith “lame” arms.“It’s just like this,” said a wounded Sammy. “They're big women, countesses, millionaires’ wives and all that, but they drop in kinda sudden like and sit down along-side the bed—and—well you can talk to them the same as if it was your mother, or sister, or shmebody at home. Gee! it’s great to be in an American hospital with nice American women visitors. American nurses and doctors looking after you. Mother wouldn’t worry if she knew how well I’m be- j selt;^1ing treated.Located in a pretty grove on topof a hill in the midst of a rollingfarm country, Dartford AmericanHospital, eighteen miles from London, is flanked on one side by one of Great Britain’s great German prisonA tru little a speculat subject little th anical ti Gradihas swu cratic c cause ti been m newspaj pelin, th and the “indesti ers tha world a A “si made it length, eight tc wasp p four mi of 120 speed a courage in the i ship do to Gerr A fiv brought It is a official: were m proport N u m well kn aginati the air period Londor The betowns branch more r Whe out of works tion sp tlefield up for pet tai trains, of gun on an ual V-i bute t» cause ted by 1 Use what 1 years must i vemen sive fi yet o\ Amerii ning, i tions Heave Sub even 1 giants wise f m akin their escape arman boats miralt of tha two a since to “b;The boatsthe blt; the :spects ters. of huiresult aecoriPrime vealee ventu which azinei and iAnaerop000 s that 1 mach whicl voy have men pliedmillie bush* new9 9Th supei chaning the; camps.Because of this, any Ger-Lli-iceie-man bombers w^ho should attempt to attack the hospital would be likely to kill a number of German prisonersinstead.Dartford Hospital now has a thousand beds, most of which are occupied, and has accommodations for2 000 more ivhen needed. It istoing :marcfrienSYYEL(shall a Re at 1beennd 1 staffed by a Brooklyn base hospital Lasi;h.ichunit commanded by Major former Brooklyn surgeon.Fiske,in hihis iBuy Liberty Boncs
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Warren Morning Chronicle
Warren, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Oct 06, 1918
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