GIRLS WITH NERVE

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 145, 13 February 1939, Page 1

GIRLS WITH NERVE

SPAN ISH ' W-AII SER VICE N-KiW YORK, !).;«•. !>.—A girl who drove a hospital truck in the Spanish civil war and another who served as a nurse at the front, lines say- that “most of the time wo wore ,too busy to he scared.” Ruth Davidow, ' 27, and Evelyn Rahman, 28, who volunteered to the medical bureau toi aid Spanish denpocracv, worked lor,weeks in sight anil sound of the brine; in government territory. . • i Evelyn drove a three-ton truck, over mads sometimes shell-torn to bring food } fuel and medical supplies to the hospital base, were only two other girl drivers she said. For three

months after arriving in Spain, she drove an ambu 1 anee-telg.ooo miles. Ruth, who worked six months giving anaesthesia, in a “hospital oil wheels” at the Cordoba front, later was .sent to the 'Ebro front. She could see the bring from the hospital tents pitched around a. little white house in a bold. Sometimes artillery shells fell nearby; and two days after/ they evacuatedi it, the' ■ building was destroyed. The girls were ili Spain nearly lf> months.