Belgian Red Cross

He'd gone every day for three weeks to the Belgian legation and worried the Belgian minister into a state of nervous prostration.

And when the minister was at his worst and was obliged to leave things a bit to his secretaries, he'd gone to the secretaries and worried them till the first secretary had given him his passport and a letter of introduction to the president of the Belgian Red Cross Society at Ghent.

And he had gone to Ghent, went there last week, and he had seen the president and talked to him.

He had talked for ten minutes before his services had been accepted by the Belgian Red Cross.

And he was going out tomorrow.

It's just taken me six weeks to do it.

He made his second bolt by himself and secretly while Colville and I were lunching.

We followed and were stopped in a village two miles from Locerin.

When the party was thus nearly made up, Dr. Monroe accepted Lady Dorothy Fielding, whose name became very well known in connection with her work for the Corps.

The British Red Cross had scoffed at this amateur band, but the Belgian Red Cross was willing enough to accept their useful services.

And when the British one found this out, it actually rose at length to giving them two cars, which necessitated the addition of two working chauffeurs to the party, and furthermore, it eventually gave them their passages to Belgium.

Thus, when they set out from Victoria for Ostend on that momentous day at the end of September 1914, the corps had a field of useful work open to them.

Dr. Monroe, however, quite rightly refused.

They had been twice driven off by the fire of the Germans.

Why jeopardise valuable lives in the precious ambulance? As they discussed the question, a Belgian Red Cross car ran into the village, and the two eagerly applied to the doctor in charge to help them.

He could not resist their earnest pleading and carried them along with him to the field.

He'd gone every day for three weeks to the Belgian Legation and worried the Belgian minister into a state of nervous prostration.

And when the minister was at his worst, and was obliged to leave things a bit to his secretaries, he'd gone to the secretaries and worried them till the first secretary had given him his passport and a letter of introduction to the president of the Belgian Red Cross Society at Ghent.

And he had gone to Ghent, went there last week, and he had seen the president and talked to him.

He had talked for ten minutes before his services had been accepted by the Belgian Red Cross.

And he was going out tomorrow.

"It's just taken me six weeks to do it.

He made his second bolt by himself in secretly, while Colville and I were lunching.

We followed, and were stopped in a village two miles from Lokeren.