In the midst of the bloodiest battle, no matter who is hurt, Turk or Russian, Japanese or Spaniard, Armenian or Arab, he is bound to be protected and cared for.

No nurse, surgeon, or ambulance bearing that Red Cross can be fired upon.
They are allowed to pass wherever they are needed.
"Before the nations joined in that treaty, the worst horror of war was the fate of a wounded soldier, falling into the hands of the enemy.

Better a thousand times to be killed in battle, than to be taken prisoner.

Think of being left, bleeding and faint, on an enemy's field till your clothes _froze to the ground_, and no one merciful enough to give you a crust of bread or a drop of water.

Think of the dying piled with the dead and left to the pitiless rays of a scorching, tropic sun.