The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-28

A few days ago Venice was crowded to overflowing with refugees from the surrounding districts, who had fled terror stricken before the Hun hordes. Now they are fast quitting Venice and seeking safety in the towns and Vil- lages beyond.
 These refugees have terrible stories to tell of devastation and pillage car ried out in the invaded territory under orders of the German High Command. Immediately a village was entered the houses were searched, and all food stuffs, metals, and indeed any mate rials likely to be of use to the Ger mans were seized and carried off. Where the invaders suspected the supplies called for were being with held by any member of the commun- | ity, the villagers were warned that if the suspected hoard was not disclosed l by a specified hour the enemy would burn a. number of farms or other buildings, and in every case this threat was made good to the letter.
 One of the mos pathetic sights l saw before we crossed the Piave ahead of the Huns was a smoking cot | children huddled together outside it. They had been turned out because the mother had refused to part with her children's food to feed the greedy Hun soldiers. Once they were outside their little home had been fired as an example to the rest of the villagers, and when we passed that wall all that was left was a smoking ruin.
 The enemy are desperately anxious to get news of the whereabouts of Bri- tfsh and French troops. They ire
 quently make raids into the villages
 close to the fighting zone, and try to
 terrorize the few remaining inhabi- tants into disclosing information re- garding the British and French troops
 known to be quartered in the district The Huns are not content to clear the countryside of foodstuffs, but they turn this confscation to account by spreading abroad in the towns the stcry that the resultant shortage ot
 food in the towns is due to British greed in grabbing all the available
 fcodstuffs and raw materials fol
 transport to the United Kingdom. |. Italy has now her Sister Edith Ca l
 her life for humanity.
 Her name was Sister Terese Marie, and she was just twenty years of age
 Young as she was she had studied medicine at home as we'll as in Lon Gun and Edinburgh.
 , At the beginning of the war sht
 abandoned her studies to take III
 nursing, and after working under tho Red Cross in Serbia she took up du
 ties in her own country when Italy en
 tered the war.
 Apparently she was placed on th'
 enemy's black list, because she Che
 country then being neutraD had dared , tc offer her professional skill to tn Serbs. When she came under the no
 tlce of the Austrian authorities sh ; was arrested, and her arrest was re ported to Berlin.
 She was kept in a filthy internmen camp for eight days, and at an in quiry before a military officer wa taxed with being a spy of the Allies l She protested her innocence, and ol the case being taken up by the Ital } ian government, she was released. O, l the way back to Italy she was treate [ with every conceivable indignity. l When the Huns overran a part o
 Italy the Red Cross unit to which Sis ? ter Terese was attached was subjecte = to severe restrictions, and she wa } called before the German-Austria: ] commander to account for certain al l. legged irregularities, only existing i Q his imagination.
 e Earlier in the fight a Scottish bat  e by the seIf-sacrifice of the men. Afte = the final scene of heroism the enem = visited Sister Terese's hospital and ac
 cused her of hiding in the building vita t parts of the destroyed guns. The n threatened to destroy the building an Il arrest the nurse.
 n In the building at the time was = wounded Scottish soldier, an artillery e man declared by the Germans to b e an escaped prisoner of war. Whe :. they could not annoy Signora Mari s they got at her through this DOC It chap, and threatened to shoot him. t She pleaded hard for his life, bI It no notice was taken, and the threat . of violence to the Scot were repeated II In despair the brave girl aided tn
 Scot. to escape during the night, an d he managed to get clear of the enc e my. The Huns were furious to fin - their prey had escaped them. The e made that a pretext for refusing | C recognize the Red Cross flag flyin 'f over the hospital and in the night y was shelled.
 One of the wards was almost CT e tirely destroyed, and the patient = doubly wounded, were in imminel [, peril of death. The brave nurse wei % among the wreckage all the time u e fire was raging, ministering to tt
 needs of the poor, tortured men. ST
 had assisted in removing most of tt
 patients, when some more shells fe
 in the ward, and Sister Terese W; 'n buried among the ruins of the hosp De tai.
 IS She was as much a martyr Id though the Huns had put her | re against a wall and shot her as the n. shot Miss Cavell, who had been h. a model of what a nurse ought to b
 She was buried with full military ho1