World War I
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Zyradow is one very large cotton and woollen factory, employing about 5000 hands. In Russia it is the good law that for every hundred workmen employed there shall be one hospita...
7. Part 7At midday we went to a hotel for a meal. There was very, very little food left in Lodz, but they brought what they could. Coming back to the hospital we tried everywhere to get...
6. Part 6We were greeted by General K----, one of the Empress's bodyguard, and waited for a few minutes in the throne room downstairs, chatting to him. Soon we were summoned upstairs, a...
4. Part 4After the Red Cross doctor with his Sisters had been released, he went to the German authorities and asked in the name of us all what they proposed doing with us. As they would...
3. Part 3One poor Breton soldier could not bear the thought of being buried without a coffin--he spoke about it for days before he died, till Madame D----, a lady living in the town to w...
5. Part 5After about three hours' wait we were ordered into another train, mercifully for our poor bones rather a more comfortable one this time, with plenty of room, and we went on our...
2. Part 2But Charleroi was not to be our final destination--we went on a few more kilometres along the Beaumont road, and drew up at a fairly large building right out in the country. It...
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