The Red Cross : in peace and war . ful to her, everybody loving her. The camp had now from one hundred to two hundred men. Therebegan to be strong talk of yellow fever, not only at Siboney but at thefront as well. The negotiations between General Shaffer and the Spanish armyat Santiago were still going on. The flag of truce that threatened everyday to come down still floated. The Spanish soldiers had been led bytheir officers to believe that every man who surrendered (and the peopleas well), would be butchered instantly the city should fall and theAmerican troops should come in. But when Gener
The Red Cross : in peace and war . ful to her, everybody loving her. The camp had now from one hundred to two hundred men. Therebegan to be strong talk of yellow fever, not only at Siboney but at thefront as well. The negotiations between General Shaffer and the Spanish armyat Santiago were still going on. The flag of truce that threatened everyday to come down still floated. The Spanish soldiers had been led bytheir officers to believe that every man who surrendered (and the peopleas well), would be butchered instantly the city should fall and theAmerican troops should come in. But when General Shafter com-menced to send back convoys of captured Spanish officers, their woundsfaithfully dressed and carefully placed on stretchers and borne underflags of truce to the Spanish lines at Santiago and set down at the feetof the general as a tender gift back to him, and when in astonishmenthe learned the object of the flag of truce and sent companies of soldiersto form in line and present arms while the cortege of wounded were. Till-: PHYSICIANS AND NURSKS OF THE ORPHANAGE ANDCLINIC IN IiAVANA.
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