Evening star., 1925-07-12

lance, and a sorting depot Since the
beginning of the war $40 wounded
have passed through its cool and
peaceful pavilions, furnished with ali
the latest projections in surgery and
photography.
Long cases do not stay at Advert
Fractures. show wounds. complica
tions, etc are evacuated to Meknes
Rabat kenitra or Casa blanca by Sani-
tary cars furnished with the Brechot
antishock system.
According to this one-time CinCiH-
natl girl. the ADVERT Hospital. oui-
side FeZ. in its dark. cool. fragrant
gardens. is about the sweetest. safest
place a wounded lad could dream of in
la blistering African sun.
In peace times it has $50 beds. used
alike by the civilian and military popu
lation. Today it runs 500 beds. and
very perfect service, which has profited
in. every way by World War eXpe-
rience.
AT ADVERT (here is a queer detail9
they have extracted from the wound
ed Mauser projectiles, projecules of
Spanish military rifles, lead balls "ot
IA. old model" and even the very lat
est French projectiles, from modern
rapid-fire which makes one
wonder how they get them!
Another thing, quite as remarka bic,
is that ADVERT does not shelter land
has never sheltered) a single Riff regu-
lar or partisan, The "Rouafa' 1nYa-
riably take up and carry on their
vounded-"which shows high organ
iZation," SAYS the countess.
The sanitary state of the French
wounded is good. There is no 1ntes-
final fever, and only one case OF gan
creme in a hundred. Better than az
Verdr1n." they have all but stamped
out that awful plague.
The calm. warm air of Fee Is favor
able to the establishment of shocked
orcs nisms. In fact, the whole Sani-
tarv service in Morocco has been SO
successful and sufficient that, up to
the present. there has been no ques-
ton of transporting wounded men TO
France
The wounded are better served at
Fez than they were in the World
War, with more systematic applica-
tions of up-to-date medical science,
and. if possible more personal atten-
ton to comforts and little luxuries.
X X
THE countess has a right to speak
about the World Wer. There were
times when this Cincinnati girl lodged
shells, on her bicycle, to visit the ar
tillery headquarters of her husband,
outside St. Mihiei.
In her Paris house, where Nicholas
Longworth is now paying her a
short visit. she keeps framed to
gether, under glass, two large collec-
tions of her military passes, extend
ing away beyond the period when
Joffre ordered that women should not.
ordinarily. go TO the actual hghunE
front itself.
She saw historic days.
In garrison at St. Mihiel, in rented
villa, she finally reached Paris as
refugee, having lost everything. even
my large Shakespeare library, ana a.
my pictures"
Immediately when France was in
vaded, her husband went with the
covering troops; and then went into
action, all the time within 40 miles of
st. Mihiel, during the first three
weeks.
This was when she bicycled. alone,
to the artillery headquarters of, then,
Maj de Chambrun. When things
went bad, on August 80, 1914, she
actually penetrated to what afterward
became the battlefield of Mort
Homme, which the French were hold
ing at that moment.
There she saw her husband in the
trenches, and learned that he had sent
her a telegram 10 days previously, to
quit St Mihiel. Her children went
by the last train TO Paris. She had
stayed on at st. Mihiel. evacuating
the hospitals and seeing people off. At
the last moment. she came ITO Paris
I'm a motor car, whose chauffeur was
dying,
It gave a terrific touch to the sd-
venture.