By Euwe Dex tondon, June 3.
Among the countless tales of hero-sin" during the evacuation of the: BEF. from Dunkirk, our hospital nurses hold an honourable place. On those dreadful beaches with the aeroplanes roaring overhead they went about their work among the wounded a steadily as if they were in a Lon~ don hospital. When the bombs fell they lay down beside the wounded whom they were attending and fre~ quently went on with their bandage Ing and morphia from this position, Once indeed their bravery was very prettily rewarded. Five nurses were dragged on board one transport soaked® through and through and shivering. They were at once packed off to bed in warm. blankets, And exhortation to Lady Macbeth about the nature of the children she should, 'And it might' very well come true. 'There is nothing weakling about the! all reports are strong pressure by Queen Wilhelmina which induced the wretched Leopold to fight at all. And Princess Juliana is thoroughly her. mother's daughter. An' absurd rumour was current a day or two ago that Queen Wilhelmina was going to re-when they reached England in the morning the crew had washed and dried and pressed their uniforms and the girls could go ashore looking quite smart.
This afternoon as I write comes: news of the German bombing of the two hospital ships Paris and Worth-Jing, the Paris being sunk and the Getmans then coming down low to machine gun the nurses in the boats, No lives, it seems, were lost but one ursa was badly wounded in the arm. There could be no possible mistake about the nature of the ships. But then the evidence Is now overwhelm= ing that the Red Cross is a direct Invitation to the Germans. The only way to safeguard a hospital ship would" be to label it all over, "Achtung! This is a Q ship with new type of anti-alreratt gun."
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