| Show HELL IS RAGING DR WORD OF LAST WEEKS OF FIGHT WITH HUN the letters of 0 dr R E cloward are always of great interest and one just received by dr 11 B goetzmann throws some especially bright side lights on real conditions at the front that hundreds of dr cloward cloward a friends may be able to read what he hast has to osmy say aa letter follows in france oct 6 5 1918 dear goetzmann I 1 was very glad to get your letter the other day which was a long time coming our mail serice ser ice is nol not regular owing to therapia the rapid and re heated changes we make it seems that I 1 am growing more and more a gypsy trench tren h warfare is very unlikable likable to an american from the fact that it is so una atio nary con we are are moving comgall all the time in the last week we have moved our three times twice we were shelled several of fiLers were killed one from my own company it wis at night when we got it the worst and raining I 1 got a hole through my beef bed but as it happened I 1 was not in ili bed at the time you may think it exciting and it t is too we hear bear them coming cornin but never know where they will hit and believe me that is the period of suspense one shell hit bit right ia in the middle of a ward tent you can imagine the rest why the devils want to shoot up a hospital is more than I 1 know but apparently they get some pleasure out of it I 1 dont know whether it ia is fortun ate or unfortunate but it has been my luck to be mixed up h all three of the big offensives of the american army since july for a while at the I 1 was in a french hospital where the patients were about half and hilf but since then we have run ron our own institutions I 1 am in hopes I 1 will get into a base hospital for the winter while for reil excitement and experience eap exp this is it but it is hard work pour four and five days with out removing remo your shoes work with one hand eat with the other big suns guns bellowing around shooting over your oar head shells bursting close enough to throw pieces of shrapnel and rocks through bour our tent and the wounded coming ia la with every form of injury well it ite different from practicing medicine medici neeven even in the country war hua has no charms for me the only consolation Lon ton thab that I 1 get is the fact that our children will enjoy the crift of our labors personal gains and benefits have long since been banished froimy from my mind perhaps when we get home those who do get home will be heroes foi a day and then just an old soldier when I 1 ponder over the past history of the world and realize that periods of progress always come in the wake of a great war that wars are stepping atones stones on which our civilization caliz aion has risen I 1 console myself bv thinking fate has rul ruled led that I 1 be among those assign assigned edlo to open up a new era em for the human race and sometime we will understand yesterday I 1 walked out o over oer er a hill in the midst of so called no mans land occupied during the tile past four years by the french then by the germans it is now held and I 1 think permanently by obrown our own troops our hospital wa was located about a mile from it but we were shelled out at the beginning of the war the hill was heavily wooded it is high commanding a view for several miles around below were several Lat batteries teries of heavy artillery bela blair forth every few minutes we could sen bee them hitting away in the distance 12 or 15 miles close to a german dump at which they were firing your most rabid imagination imagination could not note picture that bill hill I 1 wlas I 1 could show you its picture some day I 1 may but not now every e of vegetation except a few poppies and dabies is destroyed the trees were first cut down by machine gun tre and then the roots blown out of the ground by high explosive shells there continued on page rago 8 BELL IS RAGING from rm fiad 1 Is i not a spot which bd bu has b u oot not beva bit I 1 ajr y a sul it loob looks like a bec huge ia in averted thimble oa megide it so strewn with wills aad od ard of the french an the we fe by helmets aad bones tones and 20 J of the tb a io in ibe the little curb sa 3 trough bibb which I 1 mandere i this halte tilbee to which wt moved wr car hospital hoep hosp itil guttag the nos ht I 1 read adother chapter IS the tragic tale of that tave battle the blood felt perhaps in the I 1 astory of tle w worta it isis over bis this tbell tern tam country we have bedim betim the past a fo two weeks you bare have re ad cf of it before now in 0 o the paper papers there were oo 00 asly 1 the and forti fortl tale tuie of an Amir rican witte inch ginch a it was a dimpes fible to get the wounded lack to a ame of safety becce levee we e were compelled to move oar our hospital closer than is ordinarily the ale 0 our losses loe loepere were ere felt roads have since been blade made and we ire a able to operate fully behind bat bit the largest Hr jeet gans I 1 tope e c will net not more asun again until oar our coots oat out for a nt seat hel N again tonight A coc cuss ilant fant roar of the kg guca more wort well ceat oets t ie le guerre ss as the french say I 1 jal just bad a spoof sponge v b alb ith and read my bart I 1 boand ose one old oki one one and god goj kno Ws bow how amy little ories you know its a breach of after laring ban I 1 to the it you can t pick r a few of cew around the baal we try to be c deab in n tnt 1 it s M ble ia in contact and 53 j ny inadi of individual I 1 blast close now me we badly kindly to all my iny needs I 1 wa am to bear of boar rachle achieve aerts in X L A work it has been so loot IOB scam I 1 attended church I 1 fear I 1 not ka how to act in ow but deft MY bat hit is off to the red cows otten yos aery irwy 3 ovArd |
