Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-15

returning from Marking. He had seen her
in mid-November Of 1887 when the city was
already under fire Of the japanese siege guns.
The Chinese Government, together with nearly
all the wives and children Of Americans, had
long since evacuated the doomed city.
And then one day the missionary looked
out of his window and beheld the apparition of
a dainty-looking; beautiful girl, with jaunty
air, striding up the street in the sky-blue uni
form of Chinese army lieutenant She looked
as if she had just stepped out of the chorus
Of a Broadway musical show. Ignoring the
stares Of pop-eyed men, Ottiie strobe on into
the Red Cross Headquarters Without vast
ing time for introducing herself or other pre-
liminaries, the girl began making demands
in voice Of authority that received instant
respect
II want this and this and this !" she
ratified off. And she got it, as fast as the
stuff could be rushed to her hospital
Ottlies hospital" they discovered to be
an ancient Buddhist temple, that had been
converted into series of wards. Already
the wounded from the battle raging nearby
were arriving by hundreds, and being laid
on benches boxes, affairs and floors. The
wounded finally totalled 5000 and to care
for them all were only Ottilie and six Chinese
orderlies
The city fell on December IS but as that
day approached, Ottie was so busy saving
lives that she put off the horror of moving
the hospital until the night of the twelfth
During that night $500 men, including
new arrivals, were removed by hand carts,
through a hole made in the city wall and
onto old barge on the Yangtze River.
Twelve days followed on the river so
dreadful that Ottilie's memory has drawn a
veil over most of them. but others remember.
Not for moment was the barge safe
from bombs and bullets of Japanese aviators
Overcrowded, it soon reeked with the stencil
of blood and gangrenous wounds because
DR. Wang and her few helpers could do little
more than get to them all with food and
water Five hundred died to be dropped
over the side with scant ceremony.
With all his philosophy and determina-
ton, there is nevertheless a limit to what
Chinese nerves can bear. One night after a
bomb almost lifted the barge out of the water
Ottile ran below TO see if any of the wounded
had received further injuries. In the fetid
darkness five pain-crazed soldiers ran amuck
beat her up and might have killed her had
not one of the still-sane wounded distracted
their attention by firing his pistol
Finally the ship of DEATH agony and mad
ness reached safety at Hankow where the
girl turned it over to the Medical Relief
Corps of the Chinese Red Cross There she
learned that her husband had been killed in
the defense of Shanghai. Also Ottilie ran
into Dr. Lin, who found her on the verge
of collapse and ordered her to a reconstruc-
ton centre. Ottilie refused to go until per-
suaded that she could be Of value to the
other patients
Soon she was back again at her surgeon
job.
"Oh. If someone would only tell the Amer
leans what the Japanese are really like" she
has heard people say thousands Of times,
and finally someone did. 1t was the jap
anese themselves, saying it with bombs In
time Of peace.