The evening world. Newspaper, May 21, 1918, Page 16

earn a ee f of di MAY 2 TUESDAY, » 1918 “Sister Chick,”” in Trenches As War Nurse Since 1914, | Twice Decorated for Bravery Countess de Cervantes Mazzuchi, Her Chateau Destroyed by Shellfire, Went to Battle Lines to Help Wounded, Served on French and Italian Fronts, Once Single Handed Captured German Ambulance. By Jack Drouillard Coperight, 1918, by the Prone Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) © those who are giving to the American Red Cross, this message from an Italian war nurse arrived from the immediate front only two weeks will serve to fortify that spirit and impel. them to give more; to those who, perchance, have not given of their material wealth, it wt Bit straight between the eyes and bring home the urgent necessity of giv wg in support of “the second line of defense.” Countess Chiquita Saanedra de Cervantes Mazzuchi, scion of one of the oldest families in Spain, descendant of the author of “Don Quixote de la Mancha,” left her castle in Spain to Jive as the wife of the Italian Con *ul in a chateau in Rheims, the Count Mazzuchi When the Germans were marching on Paris her chateau was destroyed by shellfire and left a mass of blackened stopes. But this girl—she was twenty-six years old then—did not flee; she tivated at the front, joining 1914, and went into the first line trenches as the French Army Aug. 4, ® nurse. Now she is known by thousands of French, Italian and British sol- diers as “Sister” Chick, by which she prefers to be called. This is no time for titles, because struments and an X-ray machine, 1 had no letter of introduction. But the American people have a kind heart when you can show them facts. she says, In the next few hours I got enough war and our duty are supreme; for an ambulance carrying 17 per sons, and 400 cases of hospital sup. everything else is trivial. ‘Arcrig plies, Before 1 left Boston there Bister” Chick bears upon her) ie ised Itt breast the coveted medal of the Le-| *0re shipned a multitude of sion d'Honneur, for which she was |", (hin ant ‘ci aited by five French Generals, one}. aiory 1 ae. of whom is Gen. Claudon, now in the] j70" 0° , . dying ke fleas, and yet they United States with the French Mile] (oii own coum and yer {tary Mission. This occurred Nov.) (44 ammunition, not 1914. She had been decorated by . ‘ Ked Cross supplies for all the Italian Government for consple-| 144: the American soldiers to stand uous bravery under fre. She came] is o.q hardships, and I hope to America and pawned her famous) wis not nave to do it. Kvery dollar collection of jewels to purchase) 0, sive to the American Red Cross Red Cross supplies for her wounded | jun. iat possibility men. “I want to ask the Red to the Itallan boys at Gorizia were was no no enough It would tuey American She has not seen her lr for! women and the men too to give up two years; ho is still in Rheims. iyi, juyuries, not thelr comforts. If War is the supreme sacrament: |i oy could sce what I have seen, could Now she has noth- love follows it. live through what I nave. lved ing but an indomitable courage 494 /iy ough, nothing would be too great devotion to sick, wounded ANd) ing no ggerifice would be too big dying. If they could see life as It is Hved This war nurse has been proposed for a commission in the Italian Army, a rare distinction, and has been placed in charge of twenty seven emergency hospitals at Lat sana, in the ridder province of Udine. Her description of conditions dur ing the first days of the war, when | there was nothing with which to care for them, cannot but help arouse in Americans a serious deter mination to give to our own Red Cross, There is hardly a family here that has not some member in| the war, or is not directly inter ested, and the thought that an) avoidable death o1 disfigurement might have been eliminated should spur them on. When the German hordes came marching on Paris,” said “Sister” | Chick, describing the conditions as| they first existed in the Red Cross, | “we had nothing: bandages, ether, | fodine, surgical instruments. We| had no ambulances, the hospitals at| Rheims were all on fire, the Cathe- dral was a mass of flames, In the first line of trenches the few nurses we had were inadequate to cope with fe number of wounded and dying “The Germans were shelling the city continuously and punctually Their outposts were in the remote parts of Rheims, and one day I saw an enemy ambulance driving through the street. I knew that it contained priceless bandages.” But then the French came driving the Germans from corner, ‘the ambulance started follow, but “Sister” Chick, with @ up, every to and gleaming entomatic, stepped on the in the trenches, Jewelry fine running board, Pointing it at the clothes would appear unnecessary driver's head, she commanded him “The ¥ ross nurse to the sol to drive back, and he must have dier must give him more courage een a glim? af determination fn ber) than anything else. When | was wounded in sbarpshoot r, blue dyes, for he obeyed. ‘That ambulance netted me 10,000 | & hospital by a German} who poked his rifle in} pendages,” she said, continuing, “a ® window and fired, 1 was compelled | quantity of fodine and peroxide of! to stop wor And, lying on a hydrogen, With this lives were |u cot amid the men—there saved. wi other place to go and no “[ stayed for eight months on the nurses to look after the soldiers French front, and when Italy entered | they came to have their wounds the war | enlisted in the Third Ita! earted, sympathetic fan Army under orders from Gen, and ever to get back Into the Lombardi. It was toward the end trenches. of 1915. “The wounded I saw upon “We had ao X-ray machines, no! leay the front a ort while ago operating tables, no hot water bot-| was a baby two days old in a mater tles, no ive ba So I told Countess | nity hospital near Venice. Its leg Minervi, wife of the Deputy of Par-| hai been blown off by a German ifament and head of ihe hospitals in shel! and was decorated in the ltaly, that this must be remedied. arms of a Red Cross nurse, The “Do you expect me to work like nurse had tears in her eyes. thie? I eald. ‘I have been through “No words of mine can deseribe eight months of it at Rheims.’ what hospital supplies in ample! “In three days I was on my way ty quantity do for the fighting men-- America, The first day in Boston et cut, torn and bleeding and maimed @ tea party I got seven oases of in- —when they come to the first ald i poken. Copyright, 1918, by The Presa Publishing Co. Y A RED CROSS BOND, Purchasable in any amount from 1 B cent to 1,000,000,000 beans! Can be bought at the NATIONAL CONSCIENCE BANK, corner Duty and Mercy Avenues, U. 8. A. Branches in all the big cities and all the little cities also, A BRANCH RIGHT BENEATH YOUR HAT! 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After buying a Red Cross bond, IMAGINE YOU ARD TWINS AND BUY ANOTHER, A Red Cross bond will make you feel ike anc BU BOND FOR THE OTHER MAN, ahs ther man The interest on Red Cross bonds multiplies faster than guinea. pigs. DON'T WEAR BLINDERS when | Passing @ Red Cross pooth! And don't forget where RED CROSS BONDS ARP SOLD THE NATIONAL | BANK CONSCIENCE DUTY AND MERCY| | LONG may 1B WAVE! (THIS SPACE HAS BEEN DO NATED TO THE RED CROSS BY | YOU.) a HIS HANDICAP. “Don't you feel tempted to go into politics?" “Yes,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax what chance have I? Having m reputation as a financier, be almost sure |de rtook as m | ment."—Wash! doa people would regard anything I u a new form of invest Star. | | | | | | dressing stations and later to the hospitals, And the Red Cross is fulfilling just that very need Your own boys will suffer and dle before the German Katser {s beaten, and that dollar or a hundred or, |better yet, a thousand, will allevia und perhaps save the lives of many of them, Your own blood is at ata Will you help?” | And this young, woman |gowned in her blue and white uni form of a nurse of the Third Italian Army, gazed out of the window at the Belmont Hotel upon the swiftly passing throng of New Yorkers and richly caparisoned Mmousines sald | “Think of comforts, the it had |them over there it would be differ Jent. If those people only knew, {what wouldn't they give?" | “Sister” Chick is in America to help the Italian Red Cross, But while the drive for the greater city's | quota of $25,000,000 18 in progress | | she will devote all hor time to fur | ther it over the top, | base brave and it! The luxury wealth, the we These Stirring Posters Will Ray Red Cross — Anxious Bantam. bantams were taking over @ ne of trenches from one of the guards’ battalions during 4 long opell of wet weather. As the guards were coming out one of the bdntams asked a big guardsman “How area the trenches-—comfort | very "Yes ushy, “H footer, replied the six-footer. but full of water.” deep?” inquired anxiously. *Oh, about up to he guardsman, pointing to some the breast of his tunic The bantam put his hand up to his ead and exclaimed, wea en Heaven help my cap badge London Tit-B A ry | the four * sald clay on the A Soft ft Berth, _ DASHING lleutenant colon ex-member of the Staff, was approac General ed by a re vently drafted man, “What might your name be? Do you belong to this nunch? *m the colonel in charge.’ Wal, I seo the balance of ‘em busy and I don't see you doin How does a fellow go * your Job?"’—Everybody's round here, anything. bout Magazin 1918 TUESDAY, MAY 21, Strains of ‘‘Marseillaise From Church on Battle Line Spur French to a Victory Poilus Pour Out of Trenches and Beat Back Charging Ger- mans When Inspired Musician Plays Organ’s Last Song—Incident in Georges Lafond’s War Book, ‘Covered With Mud and Glory.” , By Marguerite Mooers Marshall HE story of a French machine gun company, its tragic sacrifices, ita T ardor and endurance, its fine comradeship between officers and mem, the love of France which plays over all hearts like a giant hand | touching softly the strings of a violin—that fs the simple, sharply clear, inspiring story told by Georges Lafond in “Covered With Mud and Glory,” now to be read in an English transla« tion as excellent as that of Barbusse’s “Under Fire,” which, artistically, “Covered With Mud and Glory’ recalls, At the opening of the war Sergt. Major Lafond of the Territorial Hussars was in South America. He re« turned at once to his country and corps, but asked to be assigned as intelligence officer to the machine gun sec tions of the colonial infantry, and soon joined the sec« ond company of machine guns of the —— first colonials at the front, His company was nearly wiped out several times, and he and it saw much active service in Champagne, on the Somme, at Damplerre and else- the battles of Maisons where, Sergt. Major Lafond was discharged after nette in which he was seriously wounded. His book was written ta hospital and first published in the Petit Parisien As Maurice Barres says ip the — = preface he has written to it, the/*Pring out the trencb In the book {8 a secles of pictures of war,| teeth of ¢ nemy, but two steps tures sharp as those drawn by an|ffom him, And with an Irresistible . colorful as the work of the|4ash they charge him, follow him, at ‘masters of the brush, The|¢crumble him he Teutons flee io tual experiences of the company terror.” in the trenches, in convoy Near the . in patrols, in hand. |@ thri , are described with dramatic, yet] for the | no straining | with an unerring sense of it. days. he blast of the whistle | order—rings out," writes Sergt. Mas jor Lafond, “I find myself on the slope without knowing how [ cane there, In the midst of the others, beside the Lieutenant, at my post “We are under the fire of a ma e final ‘There {s, for example, the chapte called “With Music.” Ordered to hold Hill 174, near Kerbecourt, the company {8 subjected to a terrific bombardment, which keeps away re inforcements and protects a German advance in superior force. But at the top of the hill, in the pe EAC Lt tL French position, there is @ litte | Pfoach to our objective. ‘The butlers church, and in the church, at the| *istle in a continuous buzz around ade ieaare her Muste,” be-| US A Sharp, burning pain, like « sting; cry stops in my throat, on my al Tea —————| very lips. I fall “It 1s nothing. A stone burled | violently by the bursting of a shell has hit me in the back. It has just missed kill {s an me. All‘around there incessant of bullets and holes. The mud covers the mi air my mask, “A hundred yards tn the company reaches the hill and the Two sections are already sections front of un its objective, Boche blockhouse have rushed tn and action. Two themselves into a to the Jeft Suddenly is a terrific explosion, and the nt clap of thunder that can be imagined seads us head over heels. Th. blockhouse has blown up with our two sections. It was mineu, When the smoke lifts from the overturned ground all we can see are corpses scattered about, Our comrade fn throw crater more there most more Just “Groups of gray of the thicket, They st worms craw! out y reach the ridge. and up now and shout SONY dash forward to take the crate: toely f our two hidden in the shell holes, receive them with a withering fire. fifty yards, the four guns o: sections, |fore the war a teacher of classical | music, now leader of all the com:| aoaha |pany concerts and an tmmensely| young of me pean eels Goll I I men fall in heaps, like i puppets | As the Germans appear in sreat|” wput behind the ti numbers, “suddenly le ke | vr aee eee mihe Chat fall iane , : y, viole Uke) others In greater num pier a clap of thunder, the ‘Marseil-|(ouu8 (0 Bt! n ur fire laise’ bursts on our ears—tremen-| sausted. ‘Tl 1f Munitions are ex dous! It rushes out throug | eee ents realise thts the breaches tn the church ah all] Some of the groups have already t DAP ER tS SOMOS) coached Our emplacements. a through the cracks; it goes up sredib) . An in through the fallen roof; it traversea| iin ceie on 1 strong oficer huris the shattered windows. It unites] 2i)") °@ ® Bum It 1s Marseilie's In itself all human and celest ‘ a Marseille tears the volves, The soul of @ whole natton,|tne tripad, and, nage ret from he spl c ancle lorie i” % pizan t pirt of ancient glories, ant | tte mace, beats the officer eet mates the old organ which sings its] Phen from tl D deatn, last song. Under the humble MAUL | company ‘aahea Gite of a hamlet chapel the orsan intones| wind, It throws the ngs yet! the splendid Magnificat of the Re-| enemy Into disorder, ante ot the publi 4 it is soon - | Just @ mob which turns 8 re 1 dominating all the sonori DA ite back and | flees frantically as fast tles of the organ, a thousand voices | tal untte in a sublime burst of song: it can go, ling under our rifle fire and src, jing the ground with corpses ang tue armes, citoyens.” |numerable wounded, who ¢; ag th “ Grenades!’ commands the Lieu-|selvos along on the ground rece tena ‘tor mercy,” maging ¢ “Tho men, electrified, mouths halt} “Covered With Mud and Glory jopen, the machines in their hands,! published by Small, ape | Maynard & Go, jshrapnel, A greenish cloud roils | ke a flood over the plain. ‘The en jemy is launching gas.” | He tries to regain his company, with Sergt. Morin, who is retur: with a message from the Major “We walk along side by side an , fast as we can, but slowly, never theless, We get tangled tn ne barbed wire; wes stumb'» over corpses; we ‘all headlong Into shell ?