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Show 1 HOMEKCtATURE lIS II BIT QUEER Wance Man Discusses ijjing Phrases Born on ' the Battlefront. 's " 'ou should cbanoo some sunny . day to meet an ambulance from fl r zone and should ask tbo driver 3 ar lio was carrying, do not be j cd if lie answers: "Two skulls, iSiaeh, one limp; and two arms." """'otild be simply the conventional by which ambulance drivers at :;ont answer queries as to what of wounded they happen to be frt ;r the title, "Five Arms and CyLpgs," Lieutenant- C, the trans-,.nom trans-,.nom do plume of the commander ambulance scctiou in the French t.in the April issue of MoTor, the rjal Jlatrazine of Motoring, brings '!,is interesting characteristic in "'rout nomenclature. i certain occasion Lieutenant C. Skilled upon to move five arms ree legs over a stretch of road ;-jeavy boche bombardment. W'ait- til a lull came in the iron storm, i-.' nbulanco was loaded with its '' rounded and started afr breakneck across the dangerous section, the Red Cross seems merely an A ion to German marksmen, and lljihe ambulance was in the middle lislieH-swept area the deluge broke Shells exploded on all sides, :y a miracle, the ambulance es- injury. The driver turned to !. it his injured charges had fared, in expression of stupefaction over his weatherbeaten fea- ill I'll be : now the arms are dling." he cried. :a -wounded men, forgetting their ities, had made shift to crawl the ambulance and thrown them- nto the ditch alongside the road. V,be shelliuff had died down apain. jlutcnant gathered up his convoy, calling the roll it was found ro of the arms were missing. 3 you happen to know what has i of your two comrades?" he J" )ne of the remaining patients. .. ro of them have hooked it, sir," the man. "They says just like r; that they thought it a tar-sight tar-sight better to return to the ;v:ts than to be mince-meated on : )oming road." "h tends to show that there are '"orse places than the trenches. ,!" article is illustrated by pencil :' is by .Jean Routier, one of the txt military artists developed by ,.i;r. To the fact that' Eoutier is "" tnaud of another ambulance seethe see-the sector with Lieutenant C, i this happy collaboration. |