MAKING BANDAGES

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 86, 8 October 1935, Page 15

MAKING BANDAGES

"WELCOME HOME" PARTIES

EMPEROR'S DAUGHTER

Princess Tsaliai, the Emperor's young daughter, whose ancestry goes back-to the Queen of Sheba, broke with the tradition of the Imperial House when, with her father's consent, she became a volunteer worker for the first field ambulance unit of his army, writes Sir Percival Phillips, special Addis Ababa correspondent, in the London "Daily Telegraph."

. Attended only by a single guard she arrived in her car at the headquarters of the Ethiopian Women's Work Association, which was first organised by Lady Barton, wife of the British Minister. The organisation occupies an old mansion in the heart of the city.

There the Princess donned a white smock over her graceful robe of flowered silk and joined 31 ladies ol the Court, the majority of them wives and daughters of nobles and high officials. - .

Three native nuns from the Roman Catholic missions in white cotton habits, were also there, busily making bandages in what once was a drawingroom. They sat at long tables rolling the bandages on simple wooden machines—copies by a native artisan from a model brought by air from London.

The Princess proved herself an adept, and in less than two minutes her nimble lingers were steadily adding to the pile beside her winding spindle. "When I was in London," she said in her low- musical voice and in fault-less-English, without pausing from her task, "I visited some of the hospitals. I wish now I knew more about their Work. '

"I never thought the day would come when such acknowledge would be invaluable in helping to teach our people in the care of the wounded in time of war. We are without any cf the facilities other countries have long possessed to succour its victims, and so much remains to be done to help our brave soldiers should war i come." The Princess has by no means underestimated the needs of the army. She realises there is not a single doctor or a stock of medicines anywhere in the field, or even the most elementary firstaid surgical appliances. Such things are .unheard of; and the word "hospital" is unknown among the primitive warriors, who expect to lie with their wounds un tended, suffer in silence, and die where, they folU