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E. W. Weigle. 



PRIESTS AND NUNS WHO MINISTERED TO THE WOUNDED AT TERMONDE, BELGIUM 



These shattered walls and piles of debris tell their own story of the terrific fighting 

 which occurred in and around this little city in the early days of the war, when it was cap- 

 tured and recaptured many times. And ever in the thick of battle the "angels and ministers 

 of grace" were at hand to succor the wounded and comfort the dying. 



from the bondage of nearly three years' 

 servitude, as slowly, but surely, we are 

 driving back the Germans on the western 

 front. It is, of course, for your great- 

 hearted public to decide whether and 

 when and how they can best intervene in 

 this area of human desolation. 



Unless I have totally misconceived 

 your splendid ambition to rescue and to 

 save in whatever part of the world war 

 zone you are needed most. I have indi- 

 cated to you by inference the tremendous 

 part that money must play in the great 

 drama of your intervention. 



Am I to specify in detail a few of the 

 objects upon which, it may be supposed, 

 your money will be most usefully spent ? 

 I can only do so by reference to your own 

 schedules of expenditures. 



A THOUSAND NEEDS FOR DOLLARS 



We have base hospitals, running into 

 hundreds, I am sorry to say, in France 

 and England ; advanced base hospitals, 

 and special hospitals for convalescents, 



for cripples, for the blind, for face cases, 

 and homes for the permanently disabled. 



We have hospital ships on the English 

 Channel, in the Mediterranean, on the 

 Adriatic, and on the Tigris. 



We have hospital trains in England, 

 France, and Egypt ; hundreds of motor 

 ambulances in all our theaters of war, 

 with their repair cars and other necessary 

 adjuncts. 



There are thousands of doctors, 

 nurses, orderlies, etc., to be clothed 

 and fed ; there are canteens for Red 

 Cross men, rest homes for nurses worn 

 out by assiduous work and ceaseless ac- 

 tivity. We provide, of course, hospital 

 clothing, drugs, dressings — all in enor- 

 mous quantities for equipment and in re- 

 serve. These reserves are forever being 

 replenished and forever rising in cost. 



Then if you affiliate the Young Men's 

 Christian Association to yourselves, there 

 will be scores of canteens wanted — you 

 can never have enough of them — for the 

 soldiers sent to rest camps or to the base. 



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