The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-24

conceived ideas of what a countess nome should look like.
 Most of the shops in Warsaw Miss
 Denny tells us. "have one window and
 one door, and all the goods are in the window. Inside, the selves since the war. are pitifully empty. The flower shops are more beautiful than in Paris, and even the poorest people have flow CTS in their windows
 Since the liberation of Poland there , are many book stores and they are try ing to restore the language. The aston ishing thing is that there is Polish language at all, for since 179S Poland has been divided between Austria, Russia and Germany, and they were not allowed to have it taught in the schools and it was suppressed in every official way pos sible."
 After short time in Warsaw, Miss Denny lived in a hospital four mlles away. where she enjoyed the distinc- ton of being served by chef who had been pastry cook for seven years tn the Czar of Russia. Food in War saw was remarkably good, but as tne nurses were sent out into the ln terior. housing conditions and food grew worse and worse, and they were glad to travel to their appointed sta- tions in hay wagons, ox-carts or any kind of conyeyances.
  1 tional costumes, varying slightly In different localities The women nave l gaNt skirts in wide, bright stripes wlth ! lovely bodices, over which are worn pretty outside jackets"
 Transferred to the front, she de- scribed the condition of the country to he tbe same as in the devastated parts l of France. ''The Russians" she says, "blew LID everything as they entered ] and the Germans finished matters up , Whole villages were swept out or ex- 1 istence.
 ] .~rhe most pathetic and touching sights were the groups of refugees ana ] the thousands of orphan children, wno were collected in groups in orphanages and cared for by the Red Cross ana ! the Sisters of Charity.
 .JJp towards Russia the women took I their silver and jewels into open mar kets, where they gave them in ex- change for bread"
 l While the fighting with the bolshe- wiki was going on Miss Denny was sta | toned with an emergency unit at the | first dressing station for wounded soi- diers, behind the firing lines. Iha dressing station was in 8 1relsnt Car, in order that it might be quickly moved when occasion required. Here they 1 dressed about 225 wounded soldiers a day. many of whom had only had their l wounds temporarily tied up. Tney also cared for many escaped prisoners l Miss Denny continued: When the l tolsheviISi made their last drive, all 1 Red Cross workers were called into | Warsaw, some having very little time
 to escape in freight cars. In one case where the car was full inside six nurses spent twenty-four hours on top l of a freight car. On arriving all women | were ordered to send all heavy bag gage to warehouses to be taken out Ibv train, and to have all hand bag gage packed, to leave at moment notice as it was feared the bolshevlki would succeed in entering warsaw
 '~rhe Red Cross is very careful of it's personnel so far away from home, because of the terrible atrocities or the bolsheviki, who have no regard for the persons of nurses, and were in the l habit of torturing prisoners in most
 terrible ways. They even had fol-
 lowing of 300 Mongol Tartars Tor thls
 special purpose
 Miss Denny describes the Polish peo-
 ple as very attractive in appearance II always seemingly pleasant and smiling. They are all, from the highest to the
 lowest, wonderfully appreciative of all
 that is done for them and deeply grate-
 fuI to the Americans for help given
 them.
 | Miss Denny has only been at homo for a few days, yet her services have
 been in constant demand by the Bir-
 mingham public, and she has been
 claimed as community nurse by St Mary's Church.