AUSTRIAN'S GIVE SERB CAPTIVES^ DISEASE GERMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 1 April 1918, Page 5

AUSTRIAN'S GIVE SERB CAPTIVES^ DISEASE GERMS.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 2. A letter from Miss Elizabeth Ashe, the San Francisco girl who is chief nurse at the American Red Cross Children's Hospital in Pans, contains the|, following passages: "I am very much excited and overcome at present," she says, "over. the* description given me of hundreds of Serbian discharged prsioners whom my informant, a girl, saw while she wa» visiting the hospitals. These men have tuberculosis of the glands of the neck, which extend down the shoulder tothe arm. They were captured by Austrians, inoculated with tuberculosis and then discharged. Isn't it unbelievable? I would not believe it but from, an eye-witness. As these poor fellowa get no money allowance, as French., soldiers do, their case is very pitiful. "I am afraid my heart and thoughts* are more with our men these days thaiL with the poor, pitiful French "babies,, although all my work is for them. W« simply cannot keep up with the demands upon us. I am desperate with! need of nurses. General Wood, who* took me to, luncheon the other day., predicts that we will require 50,000 [ nurses before "Ehis terrible thing is i over."

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