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Show 1TANKS REFUSE ; TO IlilBS Wounded Remain in Hospital Hos-pital Fired On by German Ger-man Aviators. WITH THE- AMERICAN ARMY NORTHWEST OF VERDUN, Tuesday, Oct.' 22. (By the Associated Press.) American wounded soldiers who were in the American hospital near which German Ger-man bombing planes dropped explosives in the neighborhood of Rarecourt last night were ao little concerned by the raid that they refused to leave the building build-ing and enter dugouts until compelled to do ao by the nurses. Discussing this nonchalant attitude on the part of the doughboys, Margery Sawyer Saw-yer of Buffalo, N. Y., and Mabel Butler of New Haven, Conn., Red Cross nurses, said they found these men, some of. vwhom had come in from the front lines only a few hours previously, as calm as though no attack had taken place, although al-though the hospital had been damaged by bombs and the wards were filled wlth smoke. The first thoughts of these nurses were regarding the wounded. Neither one had had previous experience under enemy bombing operations and expected when they hurried to the Wards to find the doughboys panic-stricken. "I had gone to bed early," Miss Sawyer Saw-yer said. "I was aroused by the alarm of an air raid, but someone suggested that the Germans were merely passing by. Then there was a terrific explosion, followed fol-lowed by an upheaval Of my cot. and I was tossed clear across the room, glass falling all around me and rocks and dirt, too. I have cared for many gas patients and have heard their stories. The room was filled with smoke and I thought of gas and that scared me more than anything any-thing else. "Then Miss Butler came and we went to assist the patients." Miss Butler said she was attending one of the soldiers when the first bomb struck, within twenty-five feet of the bufldlng In which Miss Snwyer lay in bed. "We simply had to drive the doughboys dough-boys Into the dugouts," Miss Sawyer said. "One whom I aroused said bombs meant nothing to him and Insisted on turning over and going to sleep." |