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AMEBIC AH AND BRITISH WOMEN CHEER THEM BY FREQUENT VISITSIBOYS FROM EVERY STATE IN UNION ARE INCLUDEDii'0Not One of Them But Wdll Be Glad When Time Arrives When He Can Go Biaek To Battlesdti. BY HAROLD E. BECHTOL(European Manager of the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) London, S'e/pt. 25.—Eighteen miles outside London, at Dartford, Is a big, now hospital for American wounded, “United States; Amy Bas6 Hospital No. 37” is the name of it.The hospital -has been open only a few weeks. But thanks to the Amer-of the wards, talking 'to the men, laughing with them, inquiring abo-ut theirt wounds and offering to write home for anyone with a “bum arm.Mrs, Skinner. Mrs. Pago and the rest of the American Red Cross women have a lot of staunch friends in Dartford hospital who’ll remember them alt their lives. , 'like Mother or Sister 'Y’see,” a private told.- me, “they just drop in sudden-like and sit down alongside the bed and—well, you can, talk to them just the same as if it was your mother or sister.” English woman come, too. There's one especially—Lady Limerick—that a dozen1 soldiers1 spoke about. She lives in the /neighborhood and conies over nearly every day.And those Brooklyn girls—the nurses—“w till, if you were in your own home you couldn’t get any kinder, more cheerful care than' they give every man,” say the soldiers.]pataliy.an.Quwtprlpoboofg3 1 loan Bed Cross, as well as to Major’returnBRITAIN LISTS CANNED SALMON(By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n) London, Sept. 25.—The government has Issued an order calling for ail persons having 50 cases or more of canned salmon in their custody in •the last Saturday of any month, to furnish the food controller with aon ap 1 a on it be arnnitE, H. Fiske, the commanding officer, and his staff, more than 700 wounded Americans are being cared for and a new “convoy” of from 20 to 80 men ■arrives from Prance every few days*.A thousand bed's are ready, and 2000 additional will be- ready as ■they’re needed.Major Fiske was formerly a Brooklyn surgeon.. Practically all tjie nurses and orderlies are ftf®m Brooklyn.The hospital buildings and grounds were furnished by the British. Fart of the buildings are big, yellow, stone structures, part roomy, airy, one-story frames, located in a beautiful grove on top of a hill in a low farm country that might be Ohio, iYJager to Fight AgainThe Americans now in the hospital come from practically every state in the Union, And these boys are right at home, and all eager to get back to the -front.“It’s like a tonic, said Lieutenant Strickland of Portsmouth, O. “It actually seems like back in, the states. AH of the hospital staff -are Americans, and the American Red Cross women from London come out every few days and- stay all afternoon.”Mrs. Skin nor, wife of the American consul, heads this Red Cross visiting committee. 1 was at Dartfordwhen Mrs. Skinner and Mrs. Waiter Hines Page, wife of the American ambassador who recently resigned, and a number of other American wo-mdn dropped out for one of their friendly after noons with the Amerl-boys., The women #o In Rod out JWOMEN NOW SAILORS ON GERMAN SHIPSCO(By Newspaper Enterprise Aes'n) Amsterdam, Sept. 25.—German women are being used on German ships now, on account of the man shortage. Two German vessels recently arriving at Lulaa had entire women crews except for the captains.40,000 LAWS OF WARPASSED IN GERMANY(By Newspaper Enterprise Ass’n) Berne, Sept. 25.—During the war 8400 special laws and 33,000 federal council “regulations have been enacted at the rate of 200 a week in Germany.T-GERMANS SUPPRESS ESTHONIAN CULTURE(By Newspaper Enterprise Ass'n) Stockholm, Sept. 25;—The Germans are suppressing Kfithon lau. national life and culture In every possible way, closing the schools, censoring the press, and even forbidding all Bathonian music.GK WHEATLESS IMtfSV 1*3 tKEjCCiCSACrEEi,aisnor m xmMfttKWD* CG6rEA*#tKQ•vhax11 .UU.UI.I.r'TW'
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Freeport Journal Standard
Freeport, Illinois, US
Wed, Sep 25, 1918
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