Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1919-02-21
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Bellevue unit was established at Jouy-sur-Mor'n.
south Of Chateau-Thierry. A bomb. dropped upon
1t from German plane, killed several OF Its pa
tients Whether any Of its personnel were In
jured / have not yet learned. Unaeterred. &c
moved up into Chateau-Thierry Is the tide of
battle started north, and occupied a schoolhouse
In the city.
About the same time another Red Cross egacu-
ating hospital, No. 40. 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,
just above Chateau-Thierry.
The record made by these two hospital units
during the counter-attack should always be ac-
counted a 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 new trench warfare the old am
buiance corps stations and field hospitals had
been eliminated, thus bringing the evacuatins
hospitals up just beyond reach of the enemy's
long-range guns
AS the counterattack developed there streafued
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 a surgeon, assistant surgeon, anesthettst and
nurse. They worked In shifts. One shift oper
ated from eight in the morning until seven in the
other began at eight and worked until seven in
the morning. The full tragedy Of the casualtiss
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
Moorheads units were regularly numbered among
the evacuating hospitals of the army medical
corps and were operated as such. The facility
with which they were fused into the army or
ganization is itself an indication Of the fine har
mony existing among. army and Red Cross
leaders. a
Both these Red Cross units were thereaftd
moved swiftly into those places where the aght-
ing was thickest. They served at the drive across
the ST. EIihel salient and later with the advance
made from foul to the west Of the Meuse river.
AS to, the future work Of the American lied
Cross in France It will not be ended until the
work of our army II ended, and perhaps nvt even
then.
Although there is to be no further expanst N
Of the Red Cross work In France, its work win
20 on 1t win bring comfort to our boys not only
as they lie sick In hospitals and they keep
guard on German soil, but to the Thousands OF
repatrated French people who are returning to
pick out from the bleak devastation OF war the
ruins Of what was once their ancestral holnes.
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 greater desolation than we can
conceive.
Fighting with mortal weapons may cease. but
the campaign Of mercy Of the Red Cross win
never cease as long as the need OF cleansing and
healing Is present among the races Of the <arth
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