Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-09-13
ENGLAND STILL ASLEEP,
DECLARES MRS. BODER
Ono OF First American Women to
Drive Ambulance in European
War Reaches New York.
TELLS THRILLING STO
STORIES
Expects to Return to Front Before
MISREPRESENTATION Does Not Seem
to Realize Yet That She Is Fight
ing for Her Life.

| Especial 10 The Times -Dispatch1
| NEW YORK. September l2-Mrs
! Bartlett Bodor, one OF the first Ameri-
can women to drive an ambulance in
| the European war, arrived in New York
to-day She told thrilling stories OF
nor few months at tho front
! Mrs Boder is a New Yorker. but she
Is going back TO England before Christ
| mas can't keep away she declared.
| 1t is all SO fascinating. 1t laws it's
| spell on YOU; the soldiers in their uni
| forms. tho CAV bands. tho great can,ps
! tn" air Of expectancy for whatever tho
| day may bring"
Mrs Boder is only twcntyslx. and
! great athlete She runs a car and
| knows more about its mechanism, than,
most men do. When tho war broke out
| she was living in France. bur went I'm.
mediately TO England and offered her
| services rs an ambulance driver She
wears the regulation khaki suit with
o'eecnes' and an army coat when in
| service.
II have been as far front as anv
| woman dareS go" she exclaimed
| Il have been to the front in France
| nave carried wounded soldiers from,
me battle front 10 the hospitals. out
the thing | want the most OF anything
In the world is to drive the great army
trucks which carry provisions to the
! men. ! could do II. too. Just as we'll az
| any Tommy Only II takes tho rcd
| taPed English government so long TO
get 1t through its funny British head
BEG TO DE ALLOWED
FREEDOM OF SERVICE
| Why. we women who really wanted
| 10 DO things have actually had to beg
| to be allowed freedom of all service
| England is still asleep" Mrs Boder
continued. AS a tighter the average
| Englishman is n topping success. but he
| wants to do the proper thing even ~
tho battle front. Why. have seen hovs
| work and pull every string they could
| to get In one of the so-called ROYAL
| regiments. especially the gunners corps
| They knew it meant certain death but
! they did 1t because 1t was the swaCger
| regiment of a certain battalion
! England is not uneasy" Mrs Boder
declared. England doesn't yet know
she is fighting for her life Some OF her
wiser. great men see 1t. but the mass
OF the people sit back and just watch
events in self-riEhteous complacency
! Their ego is so colossal nothing has yet
| shaken It,
| III Zeppelin raid really did get to
| Trafalgar Square, II would be the best
thing that could happen to England
! Nothing but German bombs dropped at
their very doors over and over again
/ will rouse the men of England to united
! effort
The common people in England do
not care n continental about the war
! and they do not hesitate 10 say so. They
know how much depends on them and
they are making a great show of parad-
! ing their Importance. They take the
| whole stdswalk-the laborers do. and
! they almost seem to Gloat over the
numbers of the royal families and he
nobility who have been killed
sure. it's their fight. let them 70 to
it.. is their attitude. The mobiles. they
say. are fighting for their castles and
| their land. We have nothing, for We
won't fight That's why England will
have to resort to CONSUMPTION.
! Already She is starting universal
registration. Every man, woman and
child in the British Isles within the
past two weeks has had to sign a paper
! telling age and special fitness for any
! given line of work These records are
TO he kept, and even # a person is an
| American citizen and in England the
| signer may be called upon for service
! II urgent need arises"