Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1918 — HEROINES RISK LIVES [ARTICLE]

HEROINES RISK LIVES

Attend Belgian Wounded During a Gas Attack. Two Women Are Decorated by King Albert for Bravery In Action. , London.—Caught in a German gas attack on the Belgian lines. Baroness Tserclaes and Miss Marie Chisholm risked their lives to attend to the wounds of King Albert’s soldiers. Both women are in London recovering from the effects of the German gas. They were equipped with gas masks in their dressing station, which was ‘ Immediately behind the battle line, but discarded them without thought of the danger In order better to attend the wounded. Both have been decorated by King Albert for bravery. The women had conducted an advanced dressing station on the Belgian front for three years. They worked in the cellar of a house just behind the Belgian positions along the NieuportYpfes railway. In a recent Attack the Germans drenched the whole Belgian front with gas. They then attacked, but the Belgians repulsed them. The gas fumes penetrated into the cellar, where the women were working. They donned their gas masks and continued to attend tne wounded, but found they could not work so well. They discarded-their respirators. They worked steadily for hours, binding up wounds and rendering first-aid assistance. Both finally collapsed and had to be taken away.