Show HORRORS OF WAR TOLD BY BEARER i. i OF ST STRETCHER ETCHER O Nearly Overcome by Sight of Operation n Till Given V PS t Slap by Do Doctor t AI J VILLERS VILLERS COTT VILERS Oct 23 We b hail had the hospital and had reached th the station We were were ex exchanging exchanging exchanging ex- ex changing glances o of 0 oy and shaking hands saying Paris S We are going to see eee Paris The train was as waiting on a a. a siding We climbed into it the hospital attend attendants nt placed us In la our seats There I he heard hearda a conversation con that struck me more han his hs any other since Ince the beginning of the war One of ot the soldiers in our oW carriage doubtless doubt doubt- less tess lessin In iii a confidential l mood that day began to relate th the thel impressions ons of as a ant at It t was M Min in the early days p of the war at I had received a commission as stretcher bearer in a hospital at Nice I The Tho first wounded arrived arrived long longI I trains were filled with them they had lain on the straw of th cars throughout the interminable Journey across Franco Franca in slow military trains which were constantly delayed Many lied flied on the way others were landed land and ed hero and aid there in heaps How fe feverishly feverishly fe- fe we wo had to wor work there was not a minute to be lost Slap Restored His Pois Poise I remember r the slap the head sur surgeon on gave me the first day he entered the operating room when I was ordered to hold a wounded soldier whose leg was being beins tat d. d The odor the cruel sight of 1 he op operation ration caused me to turn as white as death and aDa I was about to faint That blow brought me quickly quick quick- ly tomy senses I have bave seen worse i Rights since since- We spent Some terrible of or anguish there We had haa no anti- anti tetanus serum we had written and I telegraphed ever everywhere wh r fO for it but the hospitals which had it kept it jealously jealous jealous- ly and it was impossible to jealous jealous-I obtain an any Ij f r recall one of the finest men finest men I I I known a charming com com- comI I rade iwho who was wounded i in the foot His His' wound was as not s at the end nd p of f two weeks it had healed heated Then one night ight he lie felt a stiffness ill UI his ne neck neck- k- k his liis mind began to wander his hla muscles s ces to contract lie was done for or All MI we could do was to relieve relle Ii hll hlaj j Dared Not Tell the Truth Whenever cr a patient had haLl an at attack attack attack at- at tack ot otLis nature we dared riot tell teU it va iva as lIe He was sent cent ent to a aly t Qa O ly it- it wasn't It-wasn't a hospital tk- tk a jt morgue f lIe went there to tolk lk ii And the awful suffering of I that hat atrocious tetanus The li h head ad doctor doc doc- doctor doe doc tor tog was distracted 1 feared he would lose his reason Each week many of the wounded died when they easily could have been saved For the serum sorum is absolutely certain certain tain lain to have effect its action is SIrel sure SIre l Finally one day we heard that serum erum could be procured at a fantastic fantas fantas- tic price pico in Italy The doctor immediately imme Inane ly requisitioned the swiftest automobiles au au- I iles he could find in Nice The rIle next day we had serum and tetanus disappeared The recollection of this period is no not net more terrible than thap that of the days I 1 spent in as stretcher bearer durin during the fierce comb combats combats' ts' ts of Noire Dame de Lorette I was there therea a month gathering gathering- the dead and witnessing the most terrible terrible ter ter- mutilations m mv ears filled with the groans of men The work was hard we had load to carry the men away on our backs for the approaches were too narrow to permit bf the use of stretchers More than one Ol died on my lily back 46 Now He Hels Hes ls Old t I 1 a am m old Im I'm 46 Iwas taken from the trenches trench s. s and I am now one of ot the conductors of this train of wound wound- ed I 1 live In this car cal sleep and eat eather her here het I am am better off oU here than in but not so Comfortable as is at Nice But I do not complain I see such sad sights Day before yesterday we had a wounded soldier whose head was a amass amass amass mass of bandages with a little hole in inthe inthe inthe the place of his mouth Another hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital attendant and I were curious enough to raise l his s bandage ills His tag indicated that his nose and the lower part of his face had been torn away by the splinter of a shell By Dy luck he had not lost his sight His Ills wounds had had been been cleaned and disinfected a api apiece apiece pi piece ce of skin had been removed from his big hack Wack and applied to his face In this a round hole was made through wl which cn he lie was fed and another through which he breathed Liquid food was was- given him by means of a rubber tube Later soldier arrived with Vitha a a. wound in head He was more fortunate Part of his skull had been removed and this was replaced b by a pan brainpan n of solid gold Now indeed he Ie can say sav his head is worth a fortune fortune fortune for for- tune to him Both A Arms m a and d a Leg Gone And those poor unfortunates whose limbs have been amputated I I saw one line whose two arms and a leg had beer been cut off oft He had received more than shell s splinters s the greater pact alt were small Jik like pinheads rA SAS we ve Ve listened to this man sad and serious a. a fine tine tall Moroccan who was wounded got up from his seat Ills His eyes were filled with tears and he started to talk with fierce energy Why French take tale care boche wounded After war they go home home- have many children begin war again with children and war no good French rench stupid Boches kill kUl an all aU all aU I bad men When no no more boch boches bochas l' l no nomore nomore more nore war That good |