New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-03
GIRLS MEDALS WON
ON SERB WAR FIELD
Nurses Arrive Here with
Decorations from King
for Red Cross Work.
FRENCH AVIATOR
COMES FOR REST
Paris Jubilant, Berlin Strained
London Has Zeppelinitis,
Passengers Say.

The Vicomte George de Mauduit de
Kervern, who few aeroplanes for the
French army until one machine fell
ard fractured three OF his ribs. came
70 New York yesterday to recuperatc.
He was a passenger on the Chicago. Of
The French Line. that came into port
after an untroubled voyage.
Perhaps l shall do some flying in
The United States" said the v'scount,
who Is s dapper little man, scarcely
more than five feet in height, 81 may
build q machine of my own here, or
else fly one foI Glenn Curtiss."
The viscount said he did no scout
ins over the German lines, but his ad-
ventures in flying new aeroplanes from
The factory near Buc, France, 20 the
front, at Dion. were thrilling. Twice,
he said, he was fired on by French ter
rtorias, who did not recognize the
insignia Of ,heir country painted on
The under surface of his planes. Three
tines old machines IN which he was
fvirg back to the seroplane works fell
With him. On one Of those occasions
his fuel tank exploded, burning his
face and body and on another his ribs
we're broken.
"The French and English airmen are
more daring than the Germans" he
said.
Girls Honored by Serbia.
Miss ST. Clair Livingston and Miss
Inrehorg Steen Hansen, graduate
nurses Of Johns Hopkins Hospital, at
Baltimore, proudly displayed medals
presented q them by King Peter Of
Serbia for their work in Red Cross
camps
Miss Livingston is an English girl.
while Miss Hansen comes from Sweden,
but both we're living in Paris after
completing their American hospital
course. when war was declared. They
went inn ediately to Belgium. For two
months they worked as Red Cross
nurses, until all English persons were
forced 70 leave the country. Then they
vent to Serbia.
Tho medals which the young women
had pinned 70 the 6rab military jackets
a. their Red Cross service uniforms,
which they wore when the Chicago
reached her pier, were the Serbian
Battlefield Service medal, presented by
The King Himself. and the Order OF the
Serbian Red Cross, bestowed upon
them By Colonel Souvotitch, head OF
he Red Cross in his country. The first
was silver disk; the other a cross Of
silver with red enamel.
I'VE shall stay here only two weeks,
Miss Livingston declared, "only long
enough TO collect medical supplies with
which 70 fight the cholera that will
break out in the hospital camps when
the warm weather comes
Paris Is Jubilant
Others on the Chicago were Pedro
Echarcye, a Mexican, who fought in
the French army; Herman Junisky,
b1yer for an American silk house, and
Francois Perillat, who left Mexico 70
fight fo- France and is hurrylng back
70 Mexico City TO see II anything re-
mains of his jewelry store.
Passengers or the Chicago who came
from Paris said the people were in
.gbilant frame Of mind, and firmly be-
leyed the war would be over IN two
months, after the tremendous drives
the Allies are preparing had crushed
the German forces.
Inc situation IN perm, aCCOtu4H ~
passengers who were there, Is becom-
Ink strained. The hopes Of the popu-
lace are fed at intervals OF few days
by reports Of English transports sunk
II the Channel by submarines. Their
enthusiasm, according TO a medical
student from Baltimore. who spent sew
eral days in Berlin, is beginning 10
border on the hysterical. London, said
those who were there within the last
two weeks, still suffered from Yep
pslinitis, and all lights are masked at
night.