Elsie Inglis - The Woman with the Torch by Eva Shaw McLaren
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Scottish Women's Hospitals will stand by the Serbian division, and will
accompany them if they go to Roumania." At the end of the month of August the Unit, leaving Reni, rejoined the Serb division at Hadji-Abdul, a little village midway between Reni and Belgrade. Dr. Inglis described it as a "lovely place ... and we have a perfectly lovely camping-ground among the trees. The division is hidden away wonderfully under the trees, and at first they were very loath to let us pitch our big tents, that could not be so thoroughly hidden; but I was quite bent on letting them see what a nice hospital you had sent out, so I managed to get it pitched, and they are so pleased with us. They bring everybody--Russian Generals, Roumanian Military Attachés and Ministers--to see it, and they are quite content because our painted canvas looks like the roofs of ordinary houses." "There was a constant rumour of a 'grand offensive' to be undertaken on the Roumanian front, which Dr. Inglis, though extremely sceptical of any offensive on a large scale, made every preparation to meet. "The London Committee had cabled to Dr. Inglis in the month of August advising the withdrawal of the Unit, but leaving the decision in her hands, to which she replied: |
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