The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1918-09-06
WOUNDED MEN FACED DEATH
BRAFELY

BRAFELY
Story OF Cine Sinking of Tine AmbH-
lance Ship Warilda -Nurse Who
Was Drowned.
i 1t has at last been ascertained be-
yOnd any doubt that Mrs. Long, Gle
putty chief controller Of Queen Mary's
Army Auxiliary Corps, persisted when
the Australian ambulance transport
Warilda was tOrpedoed in mid-chan-
mel, near the English coast Miss
Charlotte TorweIl, the only other
member of the corps on board, tells
a thrilling tale OF the heroism OF the
wounded soldiers on board that yes
Sel and also Of her own escape She
was returning on special leave to be
married, her sweetheart just having
reached home from Mesopotamia and
acting as orderly to Mrs. Long.
There was TO panic" says Miss
Torwell. Those wounded boys, fac
ing death, were splendid. T was
placed i'm "a boat filled with wounded,
but as the big vessel sank, our boat
was not level. a davit rope was cut,
but the boat capsized and all were
thrown into the water chung to a
rope and a wounded American officer
pulled me into another boat. Two
wounded soldiers in that boat i'm
sisted upon wrapping their water
saturated blankets around me- Mrs.
Long chung to- the boat into which I
had been dragged, and I caught hold
m INV hn hot DO a1nsw~
| "Oh, save me, my feet are fastened.
! have lost a foot Her feet had
been entangled i'm some rope Strenu-
GUS efforts succeeded in freeing her
limbs and a sailor tried hard to get
her into the boat. But suddenly she
collapsed, fell back and was drowned.
When, after two hours, the rescuing
vessel came alongside an officer cali
81 out, The wounded first" But the
brave fellows shouted In return:
There is girl aboard"
| Mrs Violet Long was the wife of
Major William Long, on remount
duty in Egypt She was a sister to
Mrs. Leach, head OF the Quarter
masters Women Auxiliary Corps.
Mrs. Long helped her sister to or
ganize the WOmen's Legion, being re-
sponsible for the cookery and the
domestic section. When the legion
was amalgamated with the auxiliary
corps Mrs Long brought with her
more than 1000 recruits. She was In
her early thirties and leaves two lit
tie girls.
Lance Corporal Bowling, Of the
COnnaught Rangers, the mysterious
prisoner OF the Tower Of London the
man who landed last spring ON the
Irish coast i'm collapsible boat from
German submarine had been SEN
fenced to die by shooting, but the
sentence has been COMMITTED to penal
serVltude for life. Bowling, who was
arrested in April, was tried before @
court-martial on charges OF having
while prisoner of war at Limbnrg.
IT'D Prussia, voluntarily joined and
urged other Irish prisoners of war to
Join the so-called Irish Brigade, which
was being formed by the German
government; also with having sailed
in German submarine and landed in
Ireland to carry out further treason
able work The cOurt-martial found
him guilty of all charges OF aiding
the enemy. The sentence condemn
ing him was read on the parade
ground Of the grim old castle that has
witnessed the doom of 80 many lin the
history OF England. All the troops
quartered there were lined ND for the
occasion. The man heard the words
without displaying any emotion. The
first six months of a life sentence i'm
Britain usually IL served Az Worm
wood Scrubs prison, where Bowling
had been confined ever since hfs
trial and conviction Later he IL To
De taken to Parkhurst Convict Prison.
TWenty-nine British military Off
GERS, including two lieutenant colo
nels, have escaped under dramatic
circumstances from the German war
prisoners camp at HOlzminden, i'm
Whstphalia, which IL situated about
100 miles from the Dutch frontier.
Their escape was announced, accord
ing to the newspapers, by the general
a reward of 5000 marks for each
commanding at Hanover, who offered
prisoner captured and brought back
TO the camp. The Osnabruek Tage-
blatt reports that one OF the officers
has been captured. He is said to
have revealed that the escape was
AS1uS ny means OF SuDIeTran06m
passage several yards in length be-
tween that camp and a neighboring
forest. The officers have worked at
the tunnel for nine months
The Amsterdam Handelsblad
learns that bloodhOunds were used to
trace the fugitives, but only locally.
1t is believed that the officers made
for the Dutch frontier.
Lord Robert Cecil, assistant foreign
secretary, answering question in
the British Commons, said that Inc
had no exhaustive figures as to the
total amount of indemnites and levies
exacted by Germany In occupied
territories up to the present time,
but - ~ example ne might mention
that the war contribution exacted
from Belgium alone by the Governor
General amounted to $3.50, 600, 900
from November, 1914, to November,
1917, apart from the enormous fines
imposed on localities, firms and pri-
vate persons These momentous ex-
actions would certainly have to b.
taken into account when peace terms
were being arranged.