The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1917-09-10

the Men-Plenty OF Chicken to Eat,
and Red Cross Nurses Give Same
Care to One as to Another.
would you like to see the kitchenT'
inquired the officer commanding the
British base hospital, some distance
back of the line of fire in France. Here
specially prepare the food for 1000
a day"
Inside there a a broad expanse OF
tables between the stoves and ovens
and part of this level surface was Gov
cred by hundreds of little tin pans in
which lay a%ppetizing sections of brown,
roasted chicken. But the royal medi-
cal corps officer was talking of some
thing else. Il want to show you how
and pack the grease in barrels we send
to England to make ammunition"
writes Il. Percy Noel In the New York
Globe.
"All these delicious looking fowl, so
nice and brown / asked, "are for the
British wounded, of course. You GER
tainly do not give that sort Of food to
the Germans you have here?"
"Oh, yes !" he returned lightly. There
Is no discrimination. The Germans get
the same food and the same treatment
as our own men" And he continued
the explanation OF the barrels OF fat,
how many a week, its use, it's economy
and all that. But / was fascinated by
the thought-chicken for the German
prisoners!
There are several hundred German
wounded here. Would you like TO see
some Of the wardsT" queried the Off
Ger.
Hospital Perfectly Clean.
1t was the typical ward of a British
base hospital-immaculately clean from
the Hoor to the bed coverlets; air.
fresh and pure: a few flowers arts
tically arranged, and reposeful quiet.
I spoke to the British Red Cross sis
ter nursing.
SISTER" | said, how do you like
looking after GermansT
Now, she might have answered,
They are human beings. like our w
boys, and my work In life is to care
for sick and wounded" and so on.
But she did not. What she said was,
They are very well disciplined" And
by that | knew that she admired the
way these men behaved when in and
out of the operating room, when dress
ings were changed. as well as through
the long. long days while wounds heal
ed-these men who had killed her
brothers.
ado you-do you speak German to
them?"
Eyes. It is necessary II we are to
get them we'll"
One pale faced German soldier lay
reading a German book, a leg suspend
ed In a special splint. He had been
years I'm New York and talked English
almost perfectly.
How are they treating you here?'
[ demanded.
Every we'll"
Good nursing"
'1rhey saved my life. Gangrene.
Three days before / was picked up"
And the food, now that you are
getting s~tronger?"
Good"
Chicken"
Yes, sir"
did you think that you'd find so
much kindness on this slider
Thought that I'd get fair treatment,
but didn't expect it to be like this"
"Do German soldiers know that,
wounded or not, they will be treated
well when taken by the BritishT
Yes, | am sure they do"
But not many Of them surrender on
that account"
"No."
The captain of another military hos
pital at the base was my neighbor at
lunch that day. We were discussing
languages, and he remarked he was
glad he knew German and did not In
tend to forget 1t. I'm fact" he said.
Il owe a great deal to It,"
When I inquired why he told me
tudt, tuduhS 10 Ills idlultldIlty WILL
German, he had been able to escape
from a prison camp.
You were captured early In the
WARP"
Different In Germany.
"Yes. l was slightly wounded dur
ing our retreat, but enough to bleed
into Inconsistencies. The Germans
picked me up. l was an officer In the
Royal Army Medical corps then. as
now.
"And how did they treat your"
Badly. From the emergency hos
pital twelve Of us, sitting cases. trav-
eled three days and three nights In a
third class compartment without med
lcal attention Of any kind. We were
not once permitted to get out OF the
carriage during that time. The food
that they offered US from time to time
during the journey revolted me so that
| ate none Of II. But the most dis
agreeable feature Of the journey. even
compared to the filth Of that carriage
the third day, was the insults of the