Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-04
COMMENDS THE SPIRIT OF ARISTOCRATS NOW IN THE WAR SERVICE
Canadian Left America and Re- turns a Good Democrat But With Different Idea of Eu- ropes krlStoCraCy.

| Ol A W aAt June H." " hiO iHoN i'' | resolution of Canadian soldiers has given in Europe rather dineren' | view of Mort America Co many people . who before had not the accasion to consider this continent was brought to Ottawa by Dr. R. J. Manion of Fort | William. Ontario.
 Dr. Manion had an unusual expert l ence. Three months ago he paid his way across the Atlantic, bought his | uniform. offered his services as surg | con to the British Red Cross in Paris and found there was no opening He was offered a place in one of the l Anglo-French hospitals and accepted. He found himself member of the surgical staff of a hospital established in the historic Chateau de Rimberlieu, the property of Count re Berthune, seven miles north of Compiegne and but four miles back or the French line
 We had telephone connection with the trenches and We could see the flash of bursting shells from our win dows. as it was said that of all the
 hospitals this was the nearest to the Hines" said Dr. Nanion. There were sixty beds in the hospital. It was
 maintained under French military di-i rection largely by English money. The nurses and orderlies. almost without exception. were persons Of wealth, Of prominent French and English fami- lilies and many of them were titled
 Two of the nurses were daughters of the Count de Berthune, the owner of the chateau. another was the Countess de Pange. another the Marquise de Chabannes. another Miss Nevill,
 grand niece of Lord Beaconsheld, an-
 other a niece of Casimir Perrier, late president of France. No one on the
 staff received remuneration; instead
 they contributed from sixty to two
 hundred dollars a month for the priv Iuege of doing the tedious, eyacting and
 often unpleasant work which is re-
 quired or nurses and orderlies in every
 hospital The ambulances were mot
 ors belonging to these nurses and
 orderlies The domestics of the insti-
 tuition were chiefly their maids or
 servants of chaneurs.
 "There may have been a few paid domestics but certainly on one else on the staff from the chief surgeon down received a wage.
 'I left Canada a good democrat and return as ] left, but ! must confess feeling of admiration and respect for the aristocrats l met in this hospital
 doing what they conceived to be their duty in these terrible times. In the hospital ladies who had been waited ' upon an their lives cheetfully per.
 formed tasks they would not require , of their maids They accepted the Y hospital routine of night and day
 watches and faithfully administered , to the needs Of the wounded soldiers |, of all ranks. Amone others who serv r ed were Mir. and Mrs. Gray of Cam f bridge. He acted as orderly and she fl as a nurse. The paid the hospital two @ hundred dollars a month; they gave
 1t to the service of a motor and thei' P. chauffeur, and they consistently bougH e all sorts of things for the institution r. One of the finest characters and on, G OL lIlt ILONN NntlNl IIf.l nDlln eAh1AA A4aa lt place was Rev. Mir. Gedge, a Churcl 1t of England clergyman from Yorl g Cathedral He performed the dua
 duties of orderly and chauffeus, driy C. ing as an ambulance car given bl In his congregation for that purpose y. Only on Sunday was he the clergyman l and ! shall always remember with ad |I a which he conducted service one Sun n- day through the din of a terrific bon u- bardment
 's Just ten miles away, at Fayel, wa n another of these Ango-French hosp " tals where master and man, mistres lo and maid worked side by side. humbl .r and faithfully. The Fayel hospital m run by Countess Helena Gleichen, ,t cousin af King George of England ,o and by Lady Wemys, daughter of th {d British ambassador at Paris. Dl ,o. Lapton Smith of Montreal is one c ,p l the surgeons at Fayel Our chic f surgeon, or medicine chef, at Chatea no de Rimberlieu was Dr. Merlin a men to ber of the French chamber fdepl AIa ] if- were an English Spaniard from Jan n- aica, Scotchman and myself, a Car
 adian. Those who came to us wer of French soldiers of every rank and a lst of them patient and cheerful Thei ve one idea was to mend and get bac
 to active service That they woul
 return to the lines they took as
 matter of course,
 "It is wonderful how the Frenc
 love their country; the high and tn
 humble speak of Ia belle France wit
 anectionate reverence; and ] retur "a convinced they will not slacken efol C until they have secured the peace an
 safety Of France for al future.
 "A great feeling of friendship Ina in developed between the French an
 English and it is often demonstrate e in a way that is most impressive Massachusetts Senate passed unde J a suspension of rules, a bin providin
 for the appointment of a comInissioI
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