Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-06
WOMAN's LIFE
| AMONG GERMAN HORDE:
Writes Interesting Story as to What
Negotiated Peace
Is Like.
OCTWITTED 81 \ DOCTOR
Sometimes Huns Go Through the
~ Farce of Paying for Goods They
Commander, but Money Has
Scarcely Any Value.

ny ANNIE r.\nl,.


Since the Germans marched triuI,,rh&ntlv
into bucharest Miss Annie l'arr tn, "rly
EnSishNonian to have returned ir>Im iivu-
liza mia.
s-thts thrilling story To toll our correspondents
: Of the gallant little nilknn state while ouiv-
ssrinS under 'hc ron heel III the German
Nictors)
LONDON. October l.--RouniLnia has
been laid waste and dcSolatc 10y the
Huns. Ever since the war hogan The
pcasantry and tho working classes have
suffered terribly, but now they are al
most starving.
Gcrmany's occupation OF tho country
= has not abatcd their miscrics The
horrors OF war have simply given place
to an autocratic. ovcrhcarug rule
which is almost as bad as war itself
hilinsinE. faTmEard raiding aud mean
where. In tho hill country The meas
Ants bury their little stores Of eggs
and food in the earth TO avoid despoila
.>tion by the couQucrorS. but very often
gone enEious nciShhor viii disclose the
ssiding-rlac to the Germans who come
.Alons. dig up the precious store and
ride away laughing brutality.
~ Sometimes the Germans vii! 20
throuh the farce of paying FOR The
niockcry. for money has scarcely any
value in country where there is hard
.-ly anything to buy. Bread and mca,
arc things almost undreamt Of. and a
, mere handful of maize is ali tina, mos,
Ssof r 1he peasants have to live on
have no, been spared, and there are
some tales of outrage too terrible TO
toll; They and brutal allies, the Sui
Garians. have struck terror in tho land
We heard with horror ono day that
treated and hacked helpless women
and children and thcn thrown their
bodies into tho Danube.
Nothing could he done Inc horror
stricken Roumanians could only wait
.and pray for tho day Of dcliveranro
REMAINS IN RUCHtREST
TO AID THE WOUNDED
| was IA nurse in the military hcsptta.
when the order came TO cvacuatc Euch.
Arrest, as the Germans We're marching
on the city. I was hcsccched 30 GO to
peopls telling me tina, the Germans
feelings towards an EnGlishwoman.
no 6u, whsn SAY SAN the plsh, Of ,hs
that the doctor. not knowing tic Ian
GuaGc, could not even speak to his pa
ticnts without my assistance an in
,erpreter. | decided that my place was
with the helpless wounded. SO
stayed.
When the Germans marched in an
oneer came to the hospital, whcrc w
had, besides Roumanians many Ger
man. Bulgarian and Turkish wound,
AS 20 their treatment. Then he turncG
to the dircctrcss of the hospital re-
Hafhco DruSGNclN, = IL is well Tor Nbt
that they have been we'll treated" and
STROBE out without Il word OF thanks
for what we had done.
CHIEF AID OF AMERICAN
DOCTOR LEFT IN CITY
49,. During this time we had some very
serious and hcartrendrg eases to dra
with, and ] was the chief aid to the
American doctor-the English doctor
had TO proceed to JasSy. and | did not
even know the name of tho instruments
he used in his operations.
We had absolutely no staff. except Il
siXtcen-year-ol Boy Scout and an ole
man who acted as orderly. For weeks
We worked increasingly from early
morning until midnight, and DR.. Rrayne
Was real hero. Often we had ne
proper medicine. milk or food for tho
poor men, who died off like .lies
Then we were pcrcmptorily ordered
to move the wounded Roumanians /,
another hospital just outside the city.
and were not allowed to take away
any instruments or surgical dressings.
Then DR. Braync had a bright idea TO
outwit the Germans
We took out some OF the straw from
the mattresses and stuffed them with
dressings instruments and other hos
pita! impedimenta ana scwed the mat
.resscS up again.
- And the best of il was that tho Ger
.tuan orderlia.s very obliGingly carried
these matTesses for us TO the new
hospital.