New Britain herald., 1915-01-11
AMBASSADORS WIFE
 NEAR BATTLE LINE Mrs. Narye EEjoys 1fp Across
 Battlefield in Poland. |NSPECTS SECONDARY TRENCHES

American Party Escorted by Director
 of Red Cross Hospital Within Three
 Miles of Firing Line-Laud Eager ness and Appreciation of Troops. 1 Petrograd, Via. London, Jan. H., ] 405 a. m.-During a recent visit to 1 Warsaw by George T. Marye, the a. party from the embassy, Mrs. Marye, and Secretary Raymond Baker took occasion to make trip near the battle line in Poland. They were escorted by director of the Red 1 Cross hospital to within three miles 1 Of the firing line.
 MT. Baker, in recounting details of l the experience, said: ''The ambassa- dor's wife enjoyed the trip across the 1 battlefield tremendously and although i we were almost in the center of ] things, with every road and field black with massing troops, and the continuous booming of big guns was 1 almost in our ears, Mrs. Marye showed TO apprehension, but only the keenest 1 interest in what was going on. Visit Secondary Trenches.
 "At one point we were close enough | to hear the intermittent splitting of l the machine guns. Here we came upon the line of secondary trenches and were invited to enter. In the marvelously constructed underground rooms we saw soldiers, then off duty 1 gathered around small fires and sing l ing. By peering through chinks be- tween sand bags lying on top of the trenches we could see the curious vista of the country between us and the fighting.
 Ut was slightly rolling down here and there and with patches of wood land not unlike the middle west, but so covered with moving troops that one got the impression that the country itself was in motion.
 Stream of Refugees. l "Our route lay through a road close l to within three miles of Sochaczew. The roads were soft and unfrozen in this region making automobile travel difficult and we had trouble threading 1 our way through the double line of incoming and outgoing transports. l The features which most impressed
 
 of the country everywhere scared by battle, and the stream Of homeless and hopeless refugees, scantily clad and shivering, without the slightest idea whither they were bound. Our objective was the field hos 1 pital to which the wounded were be- | ing brought in automobiles and in wagons. Mrs. Marye spent some time here and visited every one of the wounded, to whom she distributed cigarettes.
 1 Soldiers Appreciation Touching. | "The eagerness and appreciation of the soldiers were very touching. In l this hospital were wounded of all de- grees. Some, only trivally hurt, stood up and bowed to the am ba ssa d. ress; others lay between life and death. The hardness and endur- ance of these Russian soldiers struck us as marvellous. Some had sur- vived wounds that would have killed other races. While in the hospital we heard the continuous roar of bat tie going on not far in the distance.
 Returning to Warsaw Mrs. Marye visited other hospitals, one of which contains 2,0OO beds and where the pa tients are looked after by fifty sur geons and 400 nurses, the latter be- ing volunteers from the best families of Russia and Poland.'
 l $40 Patients Admitted.
 A letter from Edward H. Egbert, 1 chief American Red Cross surgeon in charge of the Kiev hospital, states that $40 patients have been admitted ] since December 5, of whom 192 have recovered and only one has died. There have been fifty surgical opera tions and 2,50O redressings peri orm- | ed since that time
 Brave, appreciative and always do- ing everything in their power to CO., operate with us, the Russian soldiers 1 make ideal patients" Dr. Egbert writes. To-day. Russian Christmas all who were able to walk or well enough to be carried gathered in a arge empty ward where they were entertained by professional English l comedians out of a job. We had a Christmas tree and presents, includ- ing warm sweaters and cigarettes were given to each patient Tho American surgeons and nurses gave a watch as a present to each of sev- enty members of the sanitary squad. A regular American Christmas din- ner was served to all patients who l were able to eat one.
 l '1 am now attempting to arrange to have our party sent to some point | where we can be of more use and see more active service"
 l SALOON ENTERED.