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Identifier: 02820440R.nlm.nih.gov
Title: Under the Red Cross flag at home and abroad
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Boardman, Mabel Thorp, 1860-1946, author
Subjects: Red Cross Relief Work
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id-uals, but as Americans, and their hearts go out to thecountry that has made our work possible. In Vienna still another type of building, a modemschoolhouse, was converted into the Royal AuxiliaryHospital Number 8, and placed in charge of our unit forAustria; while at Budapest a massive structure formerlyused as a blind asylum became the care of the unit whichwent to Hungary. In these hospitals also hundreds ofwounded men have been ministered to by the AmericanRed Cross surgeons and nurses, and the same gratitudethat has been found elsewhere was manifested here too.There is a little story of a poor German boy who, thoughrecovered from his wound, developed tuberculosis in thehospital at Budapest. Alone and without friends ormoney he was going back to a sanitarium in Germany.Our good nurses raised among themselves a little fundto give him before he left, but he would not take it, say-ing, as he wept, How can I take money, when I havebeen so kindly treated? But he could not prevent the
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THE SPIRIT FOR PEACE 291 warm-hearted nurses sending the little gift later anony-mously, mailing it from Vienna so he should not know itssource. All these simple pictures of war hospital scenes in thisgreat tragedy are, as Sister Dorothea says, Only triflingdetails, and yet they show the spirit which taken hometo the family hearth is not going to breed war, but rathera spirit of kindliness and gratitude,—a spirit makingfor peace throughout the world. CHAPTER XXI A FINNISH WELCOME. THE DOCTOR BECOMES A GENERAL.IN THE HOSPITAL AT KIEF. THE EMPEROR. A YOUNGCRIMEAN VETERAN. TWO CHRISTMAS DAYS. AROYAL VISIT. ON THE SERBIAN FRONTIER. BEL-GRADE UNDER FIRE. WOUNDED BY THOUSANDS.A PLACE IN HISTORY. It was a long journey from England to Kief, but notwithout its compensation. Whatever may be the relationsbetween Russia and Finland, there can be no doubt of thewelcome for the Red Cross, whose goal was a hospital forwounded Russian soldiers. All along the Finnish coast,at every village station,

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