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Show BROTHERS IN MISERY COMRADESHIP OF WOUNDED ON THE BATTLEFIELD. Letter Vrltten to His Fiancee by Dying French Officer Reveals Triumph of the Finer Feel- InQo of Humanity. A totter, which Is among tho most moving documents written since tho boglnnlng of tho war, has been re-1 eolved by n young American woman in Paris. It was written by her fiance, a Fronch cavalry officer, us ho lay dying In Flanders, and with tho letter sho received tho news of his death. After narrating how ho was wound-1 cd In tho chest during a cavalry . chargo nnd temporarily lost consciousness, conscious-ness, tho writer goes on: "Thcro aro two other men 1lng near mo and I do not think thoro Is much hopo for them, cither. Ono is an olllccr of a Scottish regiment and tho other a prlvato In tho uhlans. "Thoy wero struck down after mo and when I cama to myself I found, them bending over mo, rendering first-aid. first-aid. Tho Ilritlsher was pouring water down my throiit from Ills flask, whlto tho German was endeavoring to stanch my wound with nn nntlscptlq preparation served out by their medical med-ical corps. "Tho Highlander had ono of his legs shattered and tho German had soveral pieces of shrnpnol burled In his side. In splto of their own sufferings they, woro trying to help mo, nnd when I was fully conscious again tho Gorman gavo mo a morphia Injection and tattle one himself. His modlcal corps had also provided htm Nwlth tho Injection and tho noodle, together with printed instructions for Its uso. "After tho Injection, feeling wonderfully wonder-fully at caso, wo spoko of tho lives wo had lived beforo tho war. Wo all spoko English, and we tQlkcd of tjio women we had left at homo. Doth tho German nnd tho Britisher had only1 beep married a year, "I wondered, nnJ I suppose tho others oth-ers did, vhy wo had fought each other a( nU. I looked at tho Highlander, who was falling to sTcep cxhnustcd, nnd In splto of his drawn faco and mud-stalncd uniform, ho looked tho embodiment of freedom. Then I thought of tho tricolor of Franco and all that Franco had dono for liberty. "Then I watched tho German, who. had ceased to speak. Ho had taken a prayer book from his knnpsack and was trying to read a sorvlco for soldiers sol-diers wounded In bnttlo." Tho letter ends with a reference to tho falling light and tho roar of guns. It was found at tho dead officer's stdo by n Red Cross fllo and forwarded to his flanceo. |