South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-23
PruSSian Soldiers Love for
Canned Fish Proves Costly
While They LaSt-TruCe
While Cow Is MIXED.

Natives of a province in India have
months service as Red Cross nurse
with the French army, during which
she observed narrowing scenes which
shattered her nerves and forced her TO
take a rest, Nine. Rose Stelle-Pourtot,
widow Of Eugene POurtot, art critic,
who died in Paris several months ago,
recently returned to New York after
20 years absence.
Soon after the start of the war Nine.
Stelle-POurtot. who is we'll known as
dramatic soprano, gave up her pro-
fessiOnal engagements and Joined the
Red Cross as nurse. She served in hos
pitfalls near BOurget. Scissor and Arras.
Germans Will Lose, She Says.
do ! believe Germany will lose in
this struggle?" said Nine. Stelle-POur-
tot, in answer to a question at her
home at 1872 w. Eighty Eighth st.
There can be no doubt about it in my
opinion. The Prussian empire had
reached the apex of its growth and it
was bound to decline. There is no
overcoming the determined spirit of
the French, the sublime devotion to
their cause. their intense patriotism,
their loyalty TO principle With the
aid of the British and Russians defeat
for the allies is impossible, and | be-
lieve the Germans are beginning to
realize that they are up against
stone wall"
Nine. Stelle- Pourtot said the French
were ready for war two years ago, and
that all realized that a gigantic
struggle with Germany was only
matter Of time. If the people could
have had the deciding vote on several
occasions within the last five years
when the dominating policies Of Emp
error William practically were forced
down the threats of the French, there
Il. -l,. 1.rnf
the government placed its veto upon
that course.
Women Are Heroic
When Belgium was invaded the
spirit of patriotism spread over
France like Wilddre,' she said. The
son Of a woman employed by me who
had been rejected as a soldier because
of a disable elbow sang with JOY when
he was permitted TO join the cOlors
In no place in the world were so many
regiments OF troops formed as in
Paris, and the French women were
noble in the extreme. ! do not recall
a mother or young mans sweetheart
who wept because their sons and
hances went TO war. Those who Wept
did so because they themselves were
not permitted TO carry guns and 90
upon the firing line"
Ordered to Bourget, where the
French wounded were brought. Nine.
STEELE POurtOt was assigned 10 the
care OF wounded before they left the
trains She paid a tribute TO the
cheerfulness of the French soldiers,
even when so badly wounded that If
they recovered they would be cripples
for life
"I saw young men with one or both
arms shot of who laughed and sang
as if they were the happiest persons
in the world she said. I saw men
so frightfully wounded that the sight
OF their disagreement shocked all who
saw them, but they joked with the
surgeons and nurses about their con-
dition They were content to suner
anything so long as the invading Prus-
slams were held in check. one young
man who had both hands shot on by
a shell. lamented his loss only becaLse
he could not hold and fire a gun.
Il saw another young man whose
back had been sheared of almost 10
the bone from the shoulders down,
and who recovered by q miracle after