True Stories of the Great War, Volume 5 (of 6): Tales of Adventure--Heroic Deeds--Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses
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True Stories of the Great War, Volume 5 (of 6): Tales of Adventure--Heroic Deeds--Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives
The most exciting experience I ever had was on the Galician border.
We could approach the battle line only along the Tranapol road, which
ran for fifteen miles directly under German guns. I was speeding along
it with an ambulance full of wounded soldiers when a shell struck the
roadside and exploded, tearing a great hole in the earth fifty feet
away. The concussion stopped us. Then we went on. I travel on my luck.
Some time, I suppose, I shall travel too far.
I have given all my fortune to the work. That is what we should
do--give not what we can afford, but all we have.
II--STORY OF THE "SPY-TRAPPERS" OF ENGLAND WHO CAUGHT CARL LODY
Everybody has heard of the tremendous ramifications of the German
military spy system, which had every move of England's army and navy
under observation, every gun emplacement mapped out and knew every
order given to the army before it reached the subordinate officers.
Englishmen were powerless to shake off this spy danger, which
penetrated into every branch of national life, but English women took
up the matter, brought the most dangerous spies to trial, put the
others under armed guard and in various other ways made the lives of
spies and suspected spies a burden to them.
They have proved that women are the only efficient "spy trappers." The
leaders of the undertaking are women of title, for they alone would
have the authority, means and prestige to carry out such a difficult
and far-reaching work.
The organizer and "chairman" of the committee that has been rounding up
the spies is Lady Glanusk, wife of a peer and officer, a woman of keen
mind and very determined, yet tactful personality. Other members are
the Duchess of Wellington, who is president; the Duchess of Beaufort,
the Duchess of Sutherland, the Marchioness of Sligo, Countess Bathurst,
the Countess of Lanesborough, Viscountess Massereene and Ferrard,
Viscountess Combermere, Viscountess Cobham, Lady Vincent, Lady Leith of
Fyvie, Mrs. Harold Baring and others.
Among them are some of the most notably beautiful women in English
society and others who are distinguished by their winning personality.
Perhaps the most striking beauty is the Viscountess Massereene and
Ferrard, whose husband is the chief of a celebrated Irish family.
Equally attractive in her way is the young Duchess of Sutherland, whose
husband is the largest landowner in Scotland and the United Kingdom.
Another member of the committee noted for her beauty is Mrs. Harold
Baring, who was formerly Miss Marie Churchill, of New York. Her husband
belongs to the famous English banking family that possesses four
peerages. Lady Leith of Fyvie, is another American born member. She was
Miss Marie January, of St. Louis. Womanly intuition and womanly guile
exercised by these attractive "spy trappers," on many social occasions,
have led many Germans to make admissions they would never have made to
a man.
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