NURSES IN THE FIRE ZONE
(Rec. April 22, 8 p.m.) London, April 21. Mr. Perry Robinson pays a tribute to tho splondiii devotion ami heroism of the medical staff and nurses v.-hon working oloso to tho firing lino and assisting numerous hurried retirements i:; tho earlier stages of trie I'muiisive. Sometimes 3 large clearing station with fifteen hundred be<U and equipment was moved in a few hours without injury to the patients. Once, where retirement was delayed, seventy patients who werh left in charge of an olficer and twelve orderlies were carried oil' by passing ambulances at the Inst :KOHient, the Germans firing on the rearmsjt ambulance. The medical officers in some instances piled then- valuable instruments on .wheeled stretchers an<l trundled them from twenty-five to thirty miles. Some'of these, while marching—they were worn out by their ceaseless care of tho wounded— swayed driinkeuly along the roads.— "The Times."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 183, 23 April 1918, Page 5
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