Photograph by Paul Thompson 



SISTERS IN THE ARISTOCRACY OF SERVICE TO MANKIND 



Many American girls are already serving in the hospitals of France, and the number will 

 have been enormously increased before General Pershing's expeditionary force goes into 

 action. In this illustration are shown the daughter of a prominent New York capitalist and 

 a member of the British royal family at work in the American Hospital in Paris. 



rendered all your men ; and if you burn 

 that Avarehouse we will not take your 

 men alive." 



"It is all yours." And it was all over 

 with the Russians in Russian Poland. 

 That Russian line, 300 miles long, swept 

 across Russian Poland and clear into 

 Russia before it stopped, trying every 

 now and then to resist, but failing, con- 

 tinued its retreat. 



That gray mass of men traversed three 

 great military highways, fighting along 

 the southern road commencing 30 miles 



west of Warsaw and going 230 miles to- 

 ward Moscow, clear into Russia, covering 

 an area three times the size of New York 

 State and nearly three times the size of 

 New England, excepting Maine, contain- 

 ing fifteen millions of Poles. 



AN EMPIRE LAID WASTE 



I motored along those roads, the two 

 running toward Petrograd and the one 

 toward Moscow. They are all in very 

 much the same condition. The German 

 officers and the Poles who were with me, 



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