Williams news., 1918-06-21

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 mortality rate of all the in- stitutions in France.
 Although the hospital of Mrs. Brad lev Lee at Creil is for contagious cases-and nearly every patient is also suffering from wound or from gas besides death rate is only little more than per cent.
 Having received the bronze and sill Wer medals of honor for services for la Patrie, Mrs. Bradley Lee has now been proposed for the gold medal and will be decorated with it when she takes possession of her new hospital.
 French army engineers are building this hospital with a capacity of 5Oo beds, on the hill just south of this town, which is the principal base and depot of the Army of the North and Centre.
 Nearly 5000 men have passed through Mrs. Bradley Lees hospital during the three years she has had it, and the beautiful American woman has been seen at the bedside of every one of the hundred-odd men who have died there, ministering to him until the end.
 Mrs. Bradley Lee is the widow of David Bradley, and a descendant of Gen. Robert B. Lee. She has lived in France for some years, owning hand some chateau near Chantilly. At the beginning of the war she served as a nurse and assistant on an army au- tomobile carrying a portable X-ray machine.
 In those early days of the great Fol p0Y7tG for wounded had not been organized, and few X-ray machines were availa- ble anywhere near the front. So they were taken from hospitals and labora- tories in Paris, mounted in big high powered cars and sent tearing along the front from place to place, where photographs were made of wounded soldiers.
 The X-ray ambulance squad to which Mrs. Bradley Lee was attached worked along the Flanders front dur ing the terrible battle of the Yser, when the Germans were trying to break through to the Channel ports, and during the first battle of Ypres, when attempts were made to drive a wedge between the French army and the British expeditionary force.
 Wounded by Shell Splinter
 In November of 1914 Mrs. Bradley Lee was wounded by shell splinter, just behind the Yser line, as her K ray automobile convoy, was approach ing a field hospital, to photograph a number of Belgian, British and French soldiers in whom were frag-. ments of bullets and steel. After Mrs. Bradley Lee was wounded a general order was issued by the allied armies prohibiting women in Red Cross work from going so near the fighting area as to be under fire.
 Mrs. Bradley Lees wound proved only slight, and in January, 1915, she opened her hospital for contagious cases here, only a few miles from her chateau at Chantilly. In the three years that have elapsed she has not Slept once under her own roof, and has only visited her home a score of times a year to inspect it and obtain new outfits of clothing and other necessaries. She has been to Paris only half a dozen times in the three years, and was then on business with the ministry for health. She has not taken a single "day off'' since the hos pftal was opened.
 Owing to it's importance as a mili- tary base and army headquarters, AOreil is one of the hardest towns along the front for any, civilian to go to. Before the war 1t was the june ton point where passengers from England, who had come down by rail -~~~~~~~-~~~~~-