Index

Aeroplanes, Taube, 145, 176 throwing down proclamations, 53 Affiches, of the Burgomaster of Antwerp, 53 of the Burgomaster of Brussels, 10, 11, 181, 182 forbidding a menacing look, etc., 32 German, proclaiming victories, 30, 67 German, of Von der Golst, 67, 68 instructions to citizens, 67 American Consul, help from, 66, 77 Antwerp, the forts of, 73 the heavy guns, 73 news of the downfall of, 96 Austrian prisoners, 148 Automobiles of the Flying Column, 146, 169 Belgian Red Cross Society, 5, 12 Bishop, sad fate of the, 103 Boden, a night at, 103, 104 Brassard, the Red Cross, 61 Brussels, fortifications of, 9 German patients in fire-station hospital at, 20 hospitals in, 13 occupied by the Germans, 14 the start to, 6, 7 Burgomaster of Antwerp, 53 of Brussels, 10, 11, 54, 74 of Charleroi, 20 Camp, a German, 61, 62 Cannon, distinction between French and German, 40 Cholera, rumours of, 97 Charleroi, burning of, 20, 22, 32 and Charleville, 36 terrorization of peasants in, 33 Christmas Eve in Zyradow, 167 fare, 170 Cologne, arrival at, 85-87 Copenhagen, arrival at, 92 Danish-German soldiers as guards, 81 Danish welcome, a, 92 Death of a Breton soldier, 44 of a certain French count, 48, 49 Difference in French and German equipment, 47 Echevins of Brussels, 74 Empress Marie Federovna, interview with, 111 Equipment of French and German soldiers, 47 Expulsion of nurses and doctors from Brussels, 80 Firing at the Red Cross, 35 Fire-station hospital, 13, 19, 20 Flandres Libérale, 71 Flying Column, 125, 126 Fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul, 107 French convent, a, 60 prisoners as patients, 28, 29 German officers' behaviour at Herbesthal, 83 patients at fire-station, 20 patients at M——, 41 preparations for war, 33 surgeon at M——, 31 Grand Duchess Cyril's Hospital in Warsaw, 144 Hamburg, 88, 89 Hansen, Dr. Norman, 95 Harsh treatment of wounded, 42 Haparanda, 104 Herbesthal, search at, 83 Holland, rumoured war with, 31 "Hoosh," 85 Hotel Cosmopolite, Copenhagen, 92 Hotel d'Europe, Warsaw, 124 Hotel at Lodz, 140 Ikons, 115, 173 Improvised hospital from theatre, 152 Infiladed trench, a, 162 Insects, 139 Inscription over gateway in Charleroi, 30 Interview with Dowager Empress of Russia, 111 St. John Ambulance Society, 5, 97 Jumet, the burning of, 21 Karungi, 104 Kiel Canal, 90 Liège, 65, 83 Lodz, 131 hospital at, 132-138 shelling of, 132, 135 London, first week of the war, 2 Louvain, destruction of, 81 refugees from, 11 Lowice, 150 Luggage problem, the, 126 Mâlines, 60, 63, 81 M—— Red Cross Hospital, 23 Committee, 28 dinner-time, 27 a night on duty, 23-24 the curé of, 44 Max, Monsieur, 10, 11, 55, 74 Maubeuge taken, 41 Münster, breakfast at, 88 Neutrality of Belgium, 82 of Denmark, 100 Newspaper boy caught by Germans, 71, 72 Night in the trenches, a, 171-174 Nurses in Brussels, 8, 19, 66 Operation, a severe, 25, 26 Ostend in August, 7 Patients sent off to Germany, 41, 46 Petrograd, 107, 108 Pigeons, loss of, 55 Poem to British surgeons and nurses, 95 Poland, distress in, 97 Prisoners, Austrian, 148 French, 28 German, 148 Proclamation of Burgomaster of Brussels, 10, 11 forbidding "a menacing look," 32 German announcing victories, 30, 67 of Von der Golst, 67, 68 Queen of Holland, 31 Radzivilow, 161 Castle, 151 Raphael, St., 104 Rawka, the river, 172 Refugees from Termonde and Louvain, 11 in Poland, 142 Registration of trained nurses, 4 Red Cross flag in Brussels, 55 hospital in Warsaw, 113-121 workers in Belgium, 23, 28, 46 Russian factory laws, 158 Russian Red Cross, Committee, 108 permission to serve, 97 Russian roads, 146 Russian sisterhoods, 109 Russian soldiers, 123 their relationship with their officers, 123 Scarcity of supplies, 24, 37, 169 Searched by German sentries, 62 Siberian ponies, 128 Skiernevice, 146 Skirmish between Belgian and German outposts, 59 Spies, 148 Stamps, issue of Belgian, 74 State registration of nurses, 4 St. Raphael, 104, 106 Stockholm, 102 Taube aeroplane, 147, 176 Termonde, refugees from, 11 Theatre at Skiernevice, 152 Times, the price of, 70 Tirlemont, 57, 82 Torchlight tattoo, 1 Turco soldiers, 29 Turkestan soldiers, 151, 152 Untrained nurses, the danger, 5, 120 Vendrup, 91 Voluntary Aid Detachments, 5 Waelheim, forts of, 73 Water-supply difficulties, 39 Warsaw, the city of, 121 the Red Cross Hospital, 113-120 Wavre St. Catherine, forts of, 73 Wounded French prisoners sent to Germany, 46 German soldiers at M——, 41 Zeppelins, 81 Zouave patients, 45 Zyradow Hospital, 158

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