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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 523, 4 December 1912, Page 5

In the London letter of the Australasian one reads of: a woman's work in the Balkan war. Miss Mary Durham, the well-Known traveller, is representing the Daily Chronicle as a war correspondent with the Montenegrin forces. Her duties led her to inSDect the hospital arrangements. She found a deplorable state of affairs. The only doctor was a Turk, who spoke a little German. When Miss Durham came in he was bre3kfast : ng upon cognac and sugar. A hundred or more wounded men required treatment, but he said he could do no more. The odour was terrible. The wounded men were lying about the floor half naked. Womanlike, Miss Durham determined that her work aa a correspondent must be put aside until order and cleanliness was restored. She sent a friend with a waggon full of cans to the river to fetch water. Rice and bread were ordered. Then Miss Durham opened the windows and started to clean up. All over the hospital heaps and pailfuls uf. putrid dressing and bloody rags were to be seen. Miss Durham made a bonfire of sticks and leaves outside, and burnt the whole lot. Six hours later the place was fairly clean, and the arrival of food enabled the sick men to be fed. And this had happened, in the