WHY I AM GOING TO SPAIN

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 190, 8 May 1937, Page 7

WHY I AM GOING TO SPAIN

New Zealand Nurse Gives Her Reasons “Having had years of nursing experience, one feels one ought to use one’s nursing profession to alleviate the suffering of the sick and injured wherever the need is greater.” Such is a statement made by Nurse M. Sharpies, one of the three New Zealand nurses who are being sent to Spain, in giving her reasons for enlisting. “There are thousands of innocent women and children victims of brutality through Mussolini’s defiance of the I/eague of Nations, and his victory in Abyssinia,” Miss Sharpies writes. “France’s feeble attitude to the military occupation in the Rhineland and the demilitarised zone was a great disappointment to the Allies in the Balkans and Central Europe. “It is also clear that a Fascist victory in Spain would not only cost the lives of hundreds of the best Spaniards, but would also result in a wave of

Fascism over other parts of the globe and incur incredible suffering for millions of workers throughout the world. Help is urgently necessary if the Spanish . people are not to fall under the domination of Germany and I taly. which would have fateful consequences for all nations.

“The wisdom of sending three nurses from the Dominion has been questioned by many, and undoubtedly three women would be of little use without the help of medical supplies which is accompanying the nursing unit. I sincerely trust a fund will be commenced to aid the Spanish people who are the victims of Hitler’s and Mussolini’s wellequipped armies. A further supply of drugs, etc., will be necessary, and I appeal to New Zealanders to start a fund for the help of the Spanish working people.”

A coronation night attraction will be a souvenir dinner, followed by a dance, at the Brown Owl Cabaret, which, it is expected, will be very popular. Dinner will be served promptly at 8 o’clock, with dancing from 9 o’clock. Tables may be reserved for both the dinner and dancing, and those who intend to join the dancing only may book their cabaret tables for 9 o’clock.