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"The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915"


[Illustration: Flanders and Northern France--How the Battle Line Has
Changed (Up to Jan. 1, 1915) Since the War Began.]


*Seeking Wounded on Battle Front*
By Philip Gibbs of The London Daily Chronicle.

FURNES, Belgium, Oct. 21.--The staff of the English hospital, to which a
mobile column has been attached for field work, has arrived here with a
convoy of ambulances and motor cars. This little party of doctors,
nurses, stretcher-bearers, and chauffeurs, under the direction of Dr.
Bevis and Dr. Munro, has done splendid work in Belgium, and many of them
were in the siege of Antwerp.
Miss Macnaughton, the novelist, was one of those who went through this
great test of courage, and Lady Dorothie Feilding, one of Lord Denbigh's
daughters, won everybody's love by her gallantry and plucky devotion to
duty in many perilous hours. She takes all risks with laughing courage.
She has been under fire in many hot skirmishes, and has helped bring
away the wounded from the fighting around Ghent when her own life might
have paid the forfeit for defiance to bursting shells.
This morning a flying column of the hospital was preparing to set out in
search of wounded men on the firing line under direction of Lieut.


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