One explanation of the high prices for food. These railroad yards are a fair sample of freight congestion in the East The greatest war surgeon, Dr. Alexis Carrel, who took charge of a military hospital unit in New York to teach United States Army and Navy surgeons his methods. The Rockefeller Foundation gave $200,000 for the work "Camouflage" again. Seen thru field glasses this ammunition shelter looks like a chicken coop of no strategic importance THE BATTALION OF DEATH The regiment of Russian women, which has seen active service of the most terrible kind on the eastern front, was organized by Mme. Batchkalev (on the left). She fought first in the regular Russian army, then conceived the idea of a regiment of women, received permission to form it and became its colonel. She has been wounded and is decorated with many medals. The women fight with heroism and with fury. The Germans are said to fear them far more than the Russian men. Other women's battalions were later formed with the approval of the War Department. Any woman over sixteen who can present certificates of character, education and citizenship is eligible. If the recruits pass the rigid physical examination they are initiated into the regulations of the battalion and sworn in. They wear the regulation uniform and accept the exist ing military rules, and, in addition, nine others which show with what terrible earnestness they have entered upon their undertaking. "All the members of the battalions are bound to observe the following: 1. First of all, the honor, freedom and welfare of the country. 2. Iron discipline. 3. Firmness and stedfastness of spirit and purpose. 4. Bravery and recklessness. 5. Precision, accuracy, persistency and rapidity in the execution of orders. 6. Absolute honesty and a serious attitude toward the work. 7. Cheerfulness, politeness, kindness, sympathy, cleanliness and punctuality. 8. Consideration for the opinion of others, the fullest mutual confidence and nobility of purpose. 9. Quarrels and personal feuds are inadmissible as degrading. Those guilty of breaking the above rules shall be subjected to the most rigorous punishment for disgracing the name of the Russian woman." Stern rules indeed! Underwood & Underwood There is illustration for both sides of the discussion as to Germany's treatment of war prisoners in these photographs, brought over by an American woman recently living in Berlin. The Englishmen at Ruleben (on the left) prove by their faces, as well as by the poster, that their condition is fairly enjoyable. But the quarters of French prisoners (on the right) present a rather different picture THE TASK OF FEEDING FIFTEEN THOUSAND RUSSIANS Can prisoners win the war? These breadlines of Russian soldiers in Germany suggest one way to complicate the enemy's troubles |