BISHOP'S DISCLOSURE.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1926, Page 3

BISHOP'S DISCLOSURE.

LONDON, Feb. 'ri. Tlie Bishop of London, in dedicating a memorial eliapel to l»rave women „f"the war in Holy Trinity Church, Grav’s Inn-road, W.C., Inst night, disclosed the fact that a nurse who served live years in the war, brated the horrors of Verdun ,aiul was wounded twice, still suffers from a terrible disease due to .a germ that all the skill of the best surgeons and medical doctors in the. country’could not trace or diagnose. The Bishop was speaking of the splendid courage and devotion of the women in the war, the doctors, nurses, workers, and—the mothers who sent out son after son to make the supreme sacrifice. “It is a very . striking thing,” ho said, “that in this parish of mv diocese a memorial should be dedicated to thfese brave women seven years after the war.” The Bishop related that he knew other instances of women who still suffered. One was a nurse who was aboard three different ships that hi" been torpedoed. Oil one occasion she was in the mater for three hours. She was now suffering, he said from permanent rheumatism. Recalling a personal experience, he praised the heroism of 90 London women and girl workers who made bandages for the wounded in the evening after their day’s work. They were engaged one night in their room in ■Ebury-street when a bomb fell and knocked the wall to the floor. None was killed, though all suffered from shock, but next night every one of

those 90 women was again on duty working for their country. “We arc faced,” added the Bishop, “with terrible poverty, uncmploycnt, and industrial disputes, but let us take our examples from these great women, remembering the dangers that they flaced; and if we work in the same spirit we shall overcome all our troubles while we still have a country worthy of the sacrifice.”