The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1918-01-26
Incurred Enmity of Aus
TRANS When She Gave
Service to Serbs
KEPT IN FILTHY
CAMP EIGHT DAYS
Is Buried Among Ruins Of
Hospital Made Mark
For Encmy's Shells

ter whose herolsm recalls the deeds
Of Edith CavcIl.
(By ETHEL BROADHURSTJ
Italy now has her Sister Edith
Cavell, a martyred nurse, who has
given her life for humanity.
Her name was Sister TCrese Ma
Tie. and she was just 20 years OF
age. Young as she was she had
studied medicine at home as well as
in London and Edinburgh.
At the beginning Of the war she
abandoned her studies TO take un
nursing, and after working under
the Red Cross in Serbia she took
up duties in her own country when
Italy entered the war.
Apparently she was placed on the
enemy's blacklist, because she Cher
country then being ueutralJ had dar-
ed to offer her professional skill 10
the Serbs. When she came under the
notice of the Austrian authorities
she was arrested, and her arrest was
reported to Berlin.
Kept in Filthy Camp.
She was kept in a filthy intern
ment camp for eight days. and at an
inquiry before "A military officer was
taxed with being a spy Of the allies.
She protested her Innocence. and on
the case being taken up Ivy the
Italian government she was released.
ON the way back TO Italy she was
treated with every conceivable in
dignity.
When the Huns Overran a part Of
italy the Red Cross unit TO which
Sister TCrese was attached was
subjected to severe restrictions, and
she was called before the German
Austrian commander to account for
certain alleged irregularities, only
existing in his imagination.
EaFlier in the fight a Scottish
battery had been saved from the
enemy by the self-sacrihce Of the
men. After the final scene Of hero
ism the enemy visited Sister Terese s.
hospital, and accused her of hiding
in the building vital parts of the de-
stroyed guns. They threatened to
destroy the building and arrest the
nurse.
Helps Scottish Victim Escape.
in the building at the time was
wounded Scottish soldier, an artIl-
IeTETnan. declared by the Germans
TO be an escaped prisoner Of war.
When they could not annoy SiCnora
Marie they got at her through this
poor chap, and threatened to shoot
him.
She pleaded hard for his life, but
no notice was taken. and the threats.
Of violence to the Scot were re-
peated.
In. despair the brave girl aided the
Scot to pc during the night, and
he managed tn get clear Of theI
enemy. The Huns were furious toI
find their prey had escaped them.
They made that a preteXt for refus-
ing to recognize the Red Cross flag
flying over the hospital, and in the
night it was shelled.
One Of the wards was almost en-
tirely destroyed. and the <1ationts,
doubly wounded, were in imminent
neriI Of death. The brave nurse went
among the wrcckage at the time the
hre was raging, mintstering 10 the
needs Of the poor, tortured men. She
had insisted i'm removing most Of the
patients, when some more shells fell
in. the ward. and Sister TeTese was I
buried among the ruins Of the hos /
pital w
She was as much a martyr as |
though the Huns had put her up
against a wall and shot her as they
shot Miss Cavell, who had been herI
i1uodsl OF what a nurse ought to he.
She was buried with fun military |
honors. and the firing party was pro- !
Rided by Scottish soldiers Of the |
RoyaI artillery, by whom she was
irecoEnized as the nurse to aid them I.
tlfader fire.
( Here in the fighting zone we feel
shat we are within sight Of big I
hyvents. Night and day the gunHTe /
h-arps. growing more intense as the
hours pass. The enemy are massing
fresh guns and men at every point
of their line.
They are paying the British bat
HprisE- the compliment Of directing
their heaviest fire toward them, and
the air is black with German air
planes attempting to fly over our
lines with the object of locating gun
ssOur British airmen are also in
snvidence, and they are making 1T |
hot for the enemy.
They speak much of a young
Scotsman who bids fair to rival
CAPTAIN Ball. He has served on the
western front with distinction and
was. sent here for that reason. He is
7ip all day long, and we can always
tell him from the fact that no sooner
does he appear than the enemy con-
nsntrate their best air fighters
against him.
Attacked by Enemy Machines.
The other day I watched this in
trenfd Scot over our lines. Three en-
envy machines tackled him at once.
Thev tried to surround him and cut
him off from his comrades who were
acting under his leadership. Two Of
t51efif opened fire on him with ma
chine guns, and as they circled
around him, splitting fire from their
machine guns, the odds seemed
against the young Scott pulling
through. He Unanswered his ma
chine with marvellous deEterity up
and down, Ia and out, round and
round he scared, never giving the
Huns chance Of getting him, but
always alive to the chance Of getting
tham.
His chance came. one of the Hun
pilots made a sweep at the Scot
who discharged his machine gum
point blank at the Hun, and the lat
ter crashed down to earth.
The other two assailants were them
turned on quickly by the young
SCOT and with the aid Of an Italian
machine these two were driven down
behind the Hun lines.
Makes Way Through Fire.
ON another occasion this same
airfnan was flying high over the en-
emH lines. when fire was opened
from the batteries below. The frel
was So fierce that the airmen seem
e1 to find it impossible TO move
ahout without being hit. He was, in
faCt struck by fragment Of shell,
and bis machine reeled in the air as
tsough about 20 crash to the Ground.
I'll descended very quickly and our