South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-08-19
RED CROSS MEN
PROVE BRAVERY
ON BATTLEFIEL
American Ambulance Drivers
Perform Many Heroic AC-
tiOnS Under Fire.
international News Service:

courage by American fted cross
men on several battle fronts have
Just been described here in state
ment bv Mai Grayson r. Murphy
American Red Cross commissioner
for Europe. lie also gives details
of the vast and many-sized activi-
ties the organization has been carry
sng on. which now are being multi
piled many times.
Following out its previously am
uounced project. the commission
has already established relief and
rest stations for the troops at points
where they must lie over while i'm
transit from the base receiving
camps 10 the training camps near
the front Owing 10 the democrat
lied condition Of the French rail-
WAYS. troops are often obliged 20
spend between as and - hours IN
making a journey that could ordi-
nariIy be accomplished ina T. hours
The cars i'm which thew are trans
ported are frequently small French
freight cars, into which 30, more
often 40. men are crowded The
result has been that cases OF
measles. mumps. diphtheria and ON
numerous occasions more serious
diseases have broken out among the
men To provide against such an
exigency. station dispensaries. each
containing 10 beds, a doctor and two
nurses. have been opened Sus-
pected cases or men asking for
treatment are handled Immediately
instead OF awaiting for the arrival
nf the train at its destination The
patients are visited each day hy
some member of the Red Cross. who
brings them tobacco, sweets or
something TO read, the purchases
being made from the funds which
the United states has so generously
subscribed.
Another activity of the Red Cross
consists in the bringing 10 France
az about 90 Belgian police dogs.
which will be trained 20 go out and
look for wounded. The doEs have
been tried out i'm other armies, mo-
tablv the French and Russian, and
have reached high degree of pro
nciency i'm their work.
Method Of Training.
The method of training Is 10 start
io TO teach the dog 10 fetch an OBJ
iect. usually a mans cap. Then he
ia Taught 10 seek out the wearer of
the cap. 10 return and lead the
trainer 20 the wearer, supposedly
wounded The dogs have also been
used with great success iu detecting
the presence of wounded men
caught i'm the enemy's wire en-
ID "a
through weakness
with the formal transfer Of the
american ambulance To the Amer
scam army. the ambulance ceases TO
exist. i'm name, as an auxiliary SER
vice OF the French army, although
e. will be virtually continued as such
until such time as the American
army decides il needs for its own
uses. The American ambulance is
rot however. at the present time
under .he control OF the Red Cross,
although that development may
later occur.
Two of the most recent members
az the ambulance to receive the war
cross and army citations are BASH
u NefteI of Iarchmout. y. ". lead
a.. OF section II OF the field service.
and ora r. McNurray of Madison.
wis. graduate of the University
Of wisconsin Neftel has been over
"a wear i'm the service. and has been
twice wounded i'm the performance
Of his duty.
Five other Americans have won
honors for conspicuous bravery UNI
der she'll fire in the SaIonica region.
All OF them are members of section
10 OF the American field service.
ond for the last nine months have
been engaged i'm the Balkans. for
The most part before Monastir.
where they faced the double danger
Of enemy shells and the viruient
levers that periodically make their
appearance i'm the lovlauds OF Mace
donna during the summer months.
Awarded War Gross
For both bravery and distin-
puished conduct their citations read
IAN absolute dfsreEard OF the per-
,,,o,ar risks 90 which they exposed
themselves and their spoutanecus
action I'm brinEing in the wounded
f-orl the most advanced positions
,be war cross has beeu awarded Co
.,rb OF the following " ID. Swan
~ Boston. James Harley of Knox
Vile. Tenn. Frank Fitzsimmons OF
-cew york. Kimberley stuart of
Saginaw. Mich. and John ElAston
Of Los Angeles. Calf.
I'm addition 10 the CroiN DEE Guerre.
ar war cross. Euiston was sisnalled
ont for special distinction. being
.u-,rded the cross with palms.
which means an act of unusual
r.,.,yer, During "a local engage
mont around NIouasgir iu which the
wrench were eudeaNorin2 to take
strongly held trench that formed
tbe advanced element Of q Bul-,r-
ian salient. the troops advanced 90
the attack about i'm the morning.
before the sun had made any actiF-
ftv almost intolerable.
Bv r o'clock the blue-coated poll
lus had swarmed over the Eu'ear-
IAN eutreuchneuts hayorettiHE or
bombing any of the a"ewy who re-