The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1919-01-29
Red Gross Notes

IuVU VVVO NUlUVl
American soldiers in far away
Archangel get the home gossip from
''The American Sentinel" a paper
published for their entertainment by
the American Red Cross. Must be
quite a rush getting through a four
page paper in a coutry where they go
to bed before they get up.
Major General Guidas, commander
of the troops of the Ekaterinburg
group, Valdivostok, has issued the
following order:
II express hearty gratitude to the
American Mission of the Red Cross
and it's chief, Lieut.. Col. DR.. Tusler,
for all their care of the wounded and
invalids Of the Czech and Russian
troops, with which I am intrusted
with, as we'll as of the refugees. and
for the aid shown by them in the
fighting Of epidemic diseases.
Further, I heartily thank the above
named mission in the person of it's
chief, Lieut.. Col. DR.. Teusler, for the
donation of warm underwear and diff
ferent winter clothing to the troops
Of my group"
An American Red Cross base hos
pital, containing 100 beds, has just
been established in Que of the most
desirable building in Archaugel, and
eighty patients-almost all of them
Americans-are now receiving treat
ment there. The hospital immed-
lately adjoins a United States hospi-
tai for military convalescents, and is
considered to be equipped generally
on standard above that prevailing
here. The surgeon and nurses are
doing an admirable work.
Splendid cooperation has been
given the new hospital by the chief
surgeon of the United States forces
In this section. He has furnished or
derlies and helped otherwise in many
ways.
The doctor in charge and the per-
sonnet of the hospital, as we'll as the
patients, are all members of the Cze-
cho-Slovak army.
Unless the Bill now pending before
Congress is passed, the parades of old
soldiers in the years to come will have
to march in the conventional blue
serge, with a smattering of pepper
and salt if the season be spring, is the
iconclusion arrived at by officers of the
Home Service section of the Red
Gross.
Under the present ruling of the
War Department, all government un-
form clothing must be returned
within four months from the termin-
alton of service. As the ruling in
cludes: '(a) l hat and hat cord, (b)
/ coat, service, and ornaments, (c) 1
flannel shirt, (d) l pair of breaches,
(e) 1 pair shoes, (f) / pair leggings,
(g) / belt, (h) I slicker, G) 1 over
coat, there would be little left to don,
in after years on memorial occasions.
The bill now before Congress will
authorize a discharged soldier to re-
tain such clothing. 1t is the opinion
of army officers that it will pass.
With seventy of its big hotels TAX
en- over for use as hospitals for the
wounded of the American Expedi-
tionary Forces, Vichy, France-the
world renowned watering place-is
rapidly becoming thoroughly Ameri-
can, the floating population of bed
cases and convalescents being as high
as ten thousand at one time. The
work of the Red Cross has been built
up to a scale proportionate. Every
thing possible from cut flowers and
newspapers for the wounded to sports
and theatricals for co%nvalescents is
provided, with even the Casino strip
ped of it's roulette-wheels and given
over to the officers Red Cross Club.
In charge of the Red Cross work in
Vichy is Capt. Cameron Curl1e, who
dropped his banking interests in De-
troit to come to France. Among the
Accommodations provided is a large
Gymnasium for the twelve hundred
unit men required to care for the
huge patient population, free tennis
courts for enlisted men, a comforta-
BILE, home like club for the between
two and three hundred nurses on duty
there, the Casino officers club, the IA
nous baths, taken over for the Amer
lean soldiers, and finally moving pic
lures and vaudeville in the good
sized theatre, with restaurant and
Longing rooms attached.
Visitors to Cichy would hardly rec
organize the fashionable resort of pre-
war days, but American soldiers re-
covering here will carry from it many
memories of ~convalescent hours.