The Glasgow courier., 1915-08-27
BRIEF BITS OF
LIVE WAR NEWS
American Red Gross May With
draw Doctors and Nurses.
FUNDS NEARLY EXHAUSTED.
Statistics Show How Much Medicine
Was Used In Cleaning !Up ssrvia.
Canada Lowers Her Recruiting
Standard In Order to Increase Enlist.
rents-other Interesting Items.

Standard In Order to Increase Enlist.
ments-other Interesting Items.
American Red Cross doctors and
nurses will be withdrawn from the bat
tlef1elds Of Europe on Oct because
of a lack Of funds to keep them there
longer, according to statement made
at Washington by Miss Mabel T.
Boardman, chairman Of the Red Cross
relief commission.
1t is possible that the two units in
Belgium, where the greatest need ex-
lists, will be continued. but the other
fourteen detachments will be recalled
on the date mentioned, when the
American fund Of .$1.5GOOOO will be
exhausted. In the work Of cleaning
up Servia the Red Cross has used 35S,-
7S3 pounds Of sulphur, 100000 bichlor-
ide tablets, 1000 gallons Of kerosene
oil, $500 pounds of formaldehyde. 12.-
200 doses Of cholera vaccine. 800 white
wash brushes, 20 bathtubs, so steplad.
ders and IL automobile trucks.
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Canada has lOwerd the recruiting STAN
dard. Men five feet two inches in
height may now become Canadian SOL
ders. Hitherto the minimum height
has been FIVE feet three inches. The
minimum chest measurement Is now
thirty-three inches for those thirty
years old or under. the former mini
mum having been thirty-three and one
half inches.
Marconi, who Is lieutenant of en-
gineers in the Italian army, has been
in London buying war supplies for his
nation. He expresses confidence in
ltaly's ability to defeat Austria and
says that Italy Is we'll supplied with
ammunition. her factories working at
high pressure day and night turning
out shells. Italy, he says, is particular
ly we'll equipped with dirigibles and
aeroplanes.
Since the outbreak Of the war the
Swedish army has been almost dou-
bled. 1t now has a total of $4,000
trained men. 100000 Of which are
troops Of the first line. the remainder
being landsturm. New training schools
for noncommissioned officers have been
established since last August in which
10000 nOncOms have been trained.
The French government has confer
red the military cross upon Professor
Richard Norton. founder Of the Amer
lean volunteer ambulance corps. which
is the chief Red Cross unit in the Sec
ond French army. With the decora.
ton the' government sent Professor
Norton a letter warmly praising the
work Of the corps.
Regret has been expressed by the
British government to the Norwegian
government because of the violation OF
Norwegian territorial waters by Brit
ish warships, particularly the seizure
| Of a German steamer inside the three
mile limit. The note was cordial and
was in reply to protest by Norway.
| several AmclICduS WcIc III ASuc1nls
recently during heavy bombardment
The party took refuge in a cellar fol
an hour. On reaching Paris they said
that on the day they were in Rheims
between 500 and COO large caltber shells
were dropped on the city.
Typhus has practically been wiped
out in Servia. The Servian army Il
reported to be in good condition ant
probably better equipped than ever be
fore. 1t is modified around the from
tiers. ready to move at any point a
any moment.
Ten more large national munition!
factories are to be established In Eng
land, In addition to the sixteen hug,
national plants now in operation. &C
cording to a statement made by Lloyd
George. minister of munitions.