The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-01

ary hospital with staff of civil nurses and civilian doctors to assist her As everything must be done according to the army system she has the time of her life training her entire inexperienced staff te the ways of the army hospitals. In addition to that she has all the work of organizing. I heard of one army nurse, the other day, who was ordered 90 Q seaside. resort and told that she would find an empty hotel at her serv ice and staff of volunteer civil nurses and doctors. She was to take over on the Monday and she was told that she must be ready for 150 wounded by Wednesday. Supplies would be sent to her, but if everything were not ready she would be held responsible These young women rank as officers in the army and. of course, when they are In command. as in this case, they have the power of requisitioning what they want from the civil population. This girl announced her Intention of going out into the town and taking whatever she wanted, wherever she found it. to make her wounded comsort- able.
 Royalty Visits Hospitals
 The King and Queen and other meme hers of the royal family are daily visit tors at the military hospitals in London and the civil hospitals which are being used for the wounded, and they spend hours chatting with the men, who seem quite at their ease in such company. Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll. King Georges aunt. was in one of the mili- tary hospitals the other day, when the nurse in charge happened to mention that she had received that day some men Of certain regiment "Oh, must see them," said the princess, maybe one of them can tell us something about poor little-.' mentioned the name of a young officer whose mother lives near the princess estate in Scotland. This mother is so worried about him" The princess questioned every man untll she found a man who belonged to the officers g company and learned from him that the young man had been slightly wounded and taken prisoner. And he was rare good plucked one. ma'am," said the sol- dier. He told us to go on and never mind him" His mother will be delighted to hear it." said the princess and sitting down by the mans bed she got the sol dier to dictate an account of the fight to her, which she posted straight away to the officers mother.
 The King and Queen have sent per- sonal telegrams of sympathy to the rela- tives of every officer who has been killed in the war and wherever possible have ascertained something about each man so as ID IlldNt liltil tttte ltor Aot iiltsi. Formal telegrams are sent in the King s name by the war office to the relatives of all the men who are killed.
 The arrangements at the war office for dealing with the relatives who call there for news of the men at the front are sn excellent sample of Kitchener's organ izing genius. They are shown into a room
 where a boy scout presides over a table filed with inquiry forms which the in fp wi ha egiment and regimenta1 number. This Is passed back to man who works a tube system like that in use for change in dry goods stores. and the form Is shot upstairs. Tn a few minutes 1t comes back
 in6orsed something like this, Shot through the left hand In Toulouse hos
 pital Can receive letters
 Naught But War
 No one in England thinks or talks of anything but the war. A friend told me that when he came down to breakfast the other morning he found a number of
 wooden crosses neatly planted in the lawn in his garden. He investigated and was informed by his 5-year-old son that he had been burying Germans The boy had been studying the battlefield pie lures in the illustrated papers.
 "A bloody war and quick promotion, | used to be common toast in the Brit ish army ir the days of the great Duke
 of Wellington. It Is being realized now.
 The other day I met young man, little
 more than boy, who joined the militia ! battalion of a famous regiment about a l year ago as a lieutenant He told me that | he had just been ordered to join the reg ular battalion at the front and that he was the senior lieutenant of his regiment. | "l expect by the time l get to France l I'll be a captain he said.