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WOUNDED YANKEES IN HOSPITAL WANT TO RETURN TO FRONTMrs. Waller Hines Page, ivifo of the former ambassador to Great* Britain, cracking Jokes with wounded Americana a I American base lies-l»iiaf nfi Hartford, Boehiud. • --By Harold E♦ BechtolLONDON, England: -— BlghEeoi; miles outside London, at Dart ford is big, new hospital for American wounded. “Uni I nil States Army Bast: Hospital No. 37’’ is the name of it'. Tim hospital has been open onlya. few weeks. But thanks to the American Bod Cross, as -well as to Major .13. H, Fluke, the commanding officer, and ills staff, more tharr 700 wo unde cl Americans ‘arc being curedfor and a new convoy” of from 2d lo.80 men arrivfrom France everyrawBsicSi^iwt Birn*few days.A thousand beds are already, and 2000 additional will be ready us they'ro needed.Major Fisko was formerly ji Brook Xyn rtuvgcon. Practically all the nurses and orderlies are from Brooklyn. *Regular Iowa SceneryThe hospital buildings and grounds were furnished by tbe British. Bart of the buildings are big, yellow, stone .structures, part roomy, :uvy, one-story frames, located In n. beautiful grove on top of a hill in a low farm country that might be Iowa,The America lie now* jn the hospital come from praeiieally every state in the Union. And thtwe boys are right, at home, and all eager to gst back to thb front. “It’* like a tonic” said Pvt. E. H. Be rising to n of Sioux City lo., who was struck by shrapnel Jn the hip and ankle.It actually seems like hack in the states. AH of the hospital staff are Americans, and tliq American Bod Cross women from • Luiidoii come out every few days and al*y all afternoon.”Counsels Wife a Ylfiltoi-Mrs. Skinner, wife or the American consul, heads this Red Cross visiting committee. I was at Dart* Cord when Mrs. Skinner and Mrs. Walter Hines Page, wifa of American' ambassador who recently resigned, and a number of other American women dropped out on one of their ‘friendly afternoons with the American boys, The women go hi and out of the wards, talking lo the men, laughing with them, inquiring about I heir wounds and offering to write home lor anyone with a ‘•mim” arm.Mrs. Skhmor, Mrs. Page and the rest of I he American Bed Cross wo* men have a. lot of staunch frfonds ill Dart ford Hospital who'll remember them all their lives.“Y'see” a. private told -me “they just drop Jn sudden-Iik and sit down alongside tbe bed and—well, you can talk lo them just, the same if It wr your mother or sister.*’
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Des Moines Daily News
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Wed, Sep 25, 1918
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