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FOOTNOTES:
[15] _A History of the Scottish Women's Hospitals._ Hodder and
Stoughton. 7s. 6d.
[16] _With the Scottish Nurses in Roumania_, by Yvonne Fitzroy.
[17] We recall her great-uncle William Money's strict observance of the
Sabbath.
[18] "The Dobrudja Retreat," _Blackwood_, March, 1918.
[19] _Blackwood_, March, 1918.
[20] _A History of the Scottish Women's Hospitals._
CHAPTER XII
"IF YOU WANT US HOME, GET _THEM_ OUT"
Through the summer months of 1917 Dr. Inglis had been working to get the
Serbian division to which her Unit was attached out of Russia. They were
in an unenviable position. The disorganization of the Russian Army made
the authorities anxious to keep the Serbian division there "to stiffen
the Russians." The Serb Command realized, on the other hand, that no
effective stand at that time would be made by the Russians, and that to
send the Serbs into action would be to expose them to another disaster
such as had overtaken them in the Dobrudja. In the battle of the
Dobrudja the Serb division had gone into the fight 14,000 strong; they
were in the centre, with the Roumanians on the left and the Russians on
the right. The Roumanians and Russians broke, and the Serbs, who had
fought for twenty-four hours on two fronts, came out with only 4,000
men. Further slaughter such as this would have been the fate of the
Serbian division if left in Russia.
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