Show BATTLE SEVEN NIGHTS OF HELL wounded french soldiers tell story of horrors of fighting with almost no steep sleep london geoffrey young a correspondent spon dent wires that the statements ot of the wounded returning from the ainne aisne show the terrible nature ot of the fighting all told practically the same I 1 story it began at six with heavy shell fire a soldier related to him there was a short interval at which it stopped at about every day then in the night often came the charges and one night I 1 count them it was awful kill kill kill and still they came on shoving one another over on to us no man but had his story of comrades on either side shot or smashed of the shock of 0 shells day after day a and nd ot of the perpetual groaning of the wounded as they lay in the wet trenches seven days and nights of 0 it and some nights only an hours sleep it was just absolute hell no one found another word to describe it and the sight of the men bore it out muddled to the eyes wet often with blood caked on them many were suffering from the curious aphasia produced by continued trouble and the concussion of shells bursting some were dazed and speechless some deafened and yet no face wore the terrible animal war look leave england under lieutenant Blakes lees care the members of the party were assembled in berlin from various portions of germany with the assistance of the american consuls their pro german feeling is accounted tor for by the fact that while interned in the german empire they heard only one side of the war question art and music students and governesses predominated the party left berlin in a special train and all said they had been shown every courtesy by the german officials at some places the germans waved flags and handkerchiefs and even cheered A great crowd of parents and relatives greeted the returning travelers on their arrival here another party of english women and girls of about the same number will leave berlin at an early date under the care of an of the american embassy |