The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1919-02-28
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Bellevue unit, established at Jouy-sur- MORN,
south of Chateau-Thierry A bomb, dropped upon
1t from German plane, killed several of It's pa
tients. Whether any of its personnel were In
1ured / have not yet learned. Undeterred, it
moved up into Chateau-Thierry, the tide OF
battle started north and occupied schoolhouse
In the city.
About the same time another Red Cross evacu-
atng hospital No. no. under charge of Major
Moorhead, whose wife is superintendent In charge
of the Red Cross work of making surgical dress
ings, moved north and set up tent at Coincy,e
just above Chateau-Thierry.
The record made by these two hospital units
during the counter-attack should always be ac-
counted bright page in the annals of the Amer
lean Red Cross. They, with army units served
at the fighting front. Their presence there was
made necessary by reason of the emergency and
because in the trench warfare the old am
bulance corps stations and field hospitals had
been eliminated thus bringing the evacuating
hospitals up just beyond reach Of the enemy's
long-range guns.
AS the counterattack developed there streained
back upon these evacuating hospitals tide Of
American wounded that kept the workers busy
day and night. Each unit had about eight or
ten operating teams, each team being composed
of surgeon, assistant surgeon anesthetist and
nurse. They worked In shifts. One shift oper-
ated from eight In the morning until seven In the
evening; then after an hour for cleaning up, the
other began at eight and worked until in
the morning. The full tragedy of the casualties
from gas, shells and machine bullets will not be
understood until the workers and soldiers return
each to tell his tale
From this time on, Major McCoy's and Major
Moorhead's units regularly numbered among
the evacuating hospitals of the army medical
corps and were operated as such. The facility
with which they fused into the army
ganzation Is itself indication of the fine har-
mony existing among army and Red Cross
leaders.
Both these Red Cross units were thereafter
moved swiftly into those places where the fight
ing was thickest They served at the drive across
the st. Mihiel salient and later with the advance
made from Toul to the west of the Mouse river.
AS to the future work of the American Red
Cross in France: 1t will not be ended until the
work of our army Is ended, and perhaps not even
then.
Although there is to be no further expansion
of the Red Cross work in France, its work will
go on 1t will bring comfort to boys not only
as they lie sick in hospitals and as they keep
guard on German soil, but to the thousands Of
repatrated French people who returning to
pick out from the bleak devastation of war the
ruins of what once their ancestral homes
Without the Red Cross army of mercy to follow
in the tragic burrows made by the engines of
war. the aftermath of suffering In France this
winter would be a greater desoation than we can
conceive.
Fighting with mortal weapons may cease, but
the campaign of mercy of the Red Cross will
never cease as long the need of cleansing and
healing is present among the races of the earth.
Red Cross Magazine.