Daily British Whig (1850), 31 May 1916, p. 11

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Correspondence invited ceived a message asking us to go fifty | ence discovered can take the place of kilometers away and bring in the sleep, There had been hundreds brought wounded that the raiding ublans h | in during the last twenty-four hours, left behind. We will go with Lieuten- | and one by one they had been washed, ant F., as we may have to pass close | to the German jines and so need a cool; ' firm band at the wheel. With the teu: | tenant driving," he said. laughing, "it | will take a very superior marksman to | hit us' ng { I was delighted that I had, on ac-| count of speaking German, been cho- | sen as the vne nurse to go, and we were | off iu ten minotes, | V . Our way lay through numerous French outposts, where we were some- | times held up uni a higher officer | gave us the right of way. * We passed | many bombarded villages. to some of which the poor dwellers had returned | in their ruins. But one. a place that once must have meant home to 10,000 | or 12,000, was in Sulh a state of devas. tation that no one had returned save | two nuns. They bad stayed that the | 'altar might not be desecrated. At one place there had been a large factory. What was Jeft of the machigery proved it tb have been powerful and modern, | but even Lieutenant ¥., who was an | engineer, could net decide what had been manufactured, the ruin was so complete. Only one house in the whole place was left standing. On its dour | was written in German, "Do not burn | or pillage/this house," and signed and sealed by ome Captain Reuss. It was | empty. We wondered a good deal what spe- | cial consideration had prompted the captain to lend his august protection | to this insignificant dwelling. | And then we were halted and told we could not go farther in that direc- tion. We must retrace our way and make a detour of thirty kilometers; the Germans were shelling a French outpost but a little way on. We did as we 'were directed, but in some way | took a route that led us to the very | spot we had tried to avoid. The sound of the guns came nearer and nearer. but we momentarily expected our road would turn suddenly and sharply away. And, too, the firing had ceased during the last fifteen minutes, and. speeding as we were, we had gone far | in that time. On coming to the top of i & bill we were thunderstruck to mee, Jess than half a mile away, a long Ine | their wounds dressed and then put to bed. ' I was so tired that I dumbly wonder ed whether I should succumb, 'as the men from the front had, to overmas tering sleep when we-the orderly and I=came to the last man. We were sun prised to find he was an Englishman. We had started to undress him when he roused up and said: : "Where is my captain? They have left him--I know they have left him. They thought he was dead or dying, and they have left him out in the cold | and the, dark. Do not touch me. I am going to find him." And before we | could stop him ké had jumped up, struggled to his feet and was halfway down the ward. We were after him like a flash and in a moment had ever- taken him, bat our combined efforts did not serve to stop him, and before we realized what was happening he had dragged us to the outside door. Sud- denly a door oppesite opened, and Colo- nel 8. stoed silhouetted aginst the light. a "What is it, my man?" Something in his' calm, cool manner implied au- | thority, and this is the story the sol dier vehemently poured forth: "lI am a leutenant in the ---- Sikh regiment. This morning at 3 o'clock we weré awakened by a night attack. ! An incessant artillery fire began, and shells came thick on top of one anoth+ er. First they were quite close to us then next to us, then upon us, and | with that there came that hideous sing- | ing sound of the bullets. Shert red | flames burst out. The searchlight threw its terrible pale gleam across the | horizon, and the screaming shrapnel | fell like hafl on the ground around us. | Everywhere was the ceaseless crack of the rifie; the bursting of shells and the roar of high explosives. Far away somewhere up the line came the clatter of thé machine guns getting into ae- tion. My God! Our Indians fought like devils, but we were surrounded. Those who were able jumped to the parapet and fought on until the end. The last thing T remember during the bayonet charge that followed was hearing a German officer call out to my captain, 'Englishmen, surrender? "The doctor's quick and bustnessifke voicé brought me abruptly back to "A serious abdominal wound with internal bemorrhage" he was saying he made a hasty examination. "This is the kind of case" he con tinued, "about which oné might the person ntust have a mission to fal- In the confusion of the moment we had all forgotten the indomitable cour- age of the boyish lieutenant, and it was only when we heard a thud and something fall imply 'to the floor that we remembered him. He had fainted. An orderly and a doctor picked him up and carried him out, while I re- mained to help Dr. Souchon with the operation. "He 1s so nearly dome for, nurse" the doctor said, "I think we had bet~ ter fry the new anaesthetic, scopola- mine, If you feel sure of yourself in giving it." "I won't fall yeu, doctor," 1 answer- ed. Father bad used it for nearly a ' year before his feath, and I had of- ten given it for Mm. During the next hour, as the doctor performed the intricate operation with the utmost skill, I worked with ne thought 'of weariness and with a pray- er on my lips for the patient. When it was all over tle doctor turned to bis assistant and said: "Sew him up. I will see him in the morning. I do not mind telling you I am pretty much all !n, but I think we have made a good job of it, and 1 wouldn't be at all surprised if he pulls through". Then glancing back and speaking to me as he passed through the door he sald, "You'd better look at his plague and see who that chap 1s." "He is Captain Frazer," I said. "Captain Frazer! Of what regl ment? he asked. Me MAY 31, 1916. Ji) 'many homes lack hea : that it is often prolly lle either be cold in winter or hot and stuffy. Yet the heating of a home can be like the natural warmth of June--the air as warm, as healthfully humid, as fresh and pure. : The Sunshine Furnace radiates the health- { "I do not know that" I answered, suddenly realizing how little 1 did know. "Where shall we put him?" said the orderly. "There is no place," I answered. "Well, this man must have perfect quiet and good care," the assistant surgeon said, "or"~ and he shrugged his shouldérs meaningly. For several weeks two of the nurses had been sharing my room on the third floor. They wers on hight duty just then, so I hurriedly sought them, ex- plained the situltion dnd asked if they thought we could manage some way for a night or two. "Of course," they both said. "We'd do a great deal to save any man's life, 2g a the more since he is your friend." "Ob, 00," I hastened to explain, "he ~be--isn't exactly a' friend"-- ful heat of the sun. evenly over the house, warm, fresh--a and fine ashes, so often shaken nshine zac, The Sunshine does not cost you more than many furnaces that are not as good. Our Keating Engineer will tell you what a thorough heating system for your Va home vill cost." More than that, he will tell you, without charge or obligation, 4 bow to Nan your heating system so as to get the most out of it with the least expenditere. If you send the co "Sunshine." 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Toronto Hamilton MClarys fr Montreal * Calgary 806 Vancou ver Edmonton Winnipeg ¢/ Avorsss, Saskatoon RAN AG ii AI En Joffre himself is there." When I went in they were discussing some phase of the cise, and the doctor said: "Here is the nurse. She will be able to tell us." The patient insisted oft having General Joffre shown his | wound. It was a childish wish, but | then fever often plays strange tricks with us. To humor him the doctor be- 1 Sold by J. B. Bunt & Company. OF SUFFERING Woman Made Well by F AFTER SIX TEARS | -------- Wood's Phosphoding, Sie iy of Sir: Foti Memory. Press per $5 O 1 sx cure. oss ill 3 ai in plain ain . On {ei COL TORONT a (Foro of British soldiers filing at double | Seizing a rifle to encourage his men, 1 "Oh, well, never mind." one of them Bap gh A Minh . Painter Says: "It beats me how folks will skim a few cents off the price of paint, then turn round and waste dollars on labor. On most jobs labor costs about five Hd Huts shan bint ad it takes ua as 'on ~grade paint t dose the good kind, © Po The good kind will wear five years to two or thres years of the low-grade. It's just a case of simple arithmetic gehen labor \PLE "| horizon. The sun came out brilliantly Quick 'time across a pontoon bridge. As If timing our arrival to a second, the firing began anew. The British line paused a moment, and we heard an indistinct command. We could plainly see the men getting ready for their sprint under fire, with a Space of the dash. I grew faint as I saw many of them fall into the river below. {Once over the bridge, they raced up {the hill, and far away on its crest we saw the Germans begin their advance. The English fell flat on their stom- achs and began firing. They worked their guns so quickly that Dr. Souchon sald théy must be hot In their hands. | The Germans came with a rush. 1 sat there petrified. It seemed as if 1 could not endure the sight, when all at once | the doctor said in a voice he tried to make calm, "What do you make out over there?" pointing to a spot on the | for a second, and we saw plainly a de- | | tachment of French cavalry. At the same moment a French aeroplane swept into view, and there was a giit- | ter as of tinsel waved in the san. It was an artillery signal for range, and | an Instant later we heard the peculiar i bark of the French 75. The Germans had heard it too. They began falling back. The doctor sald quietly, "I think we had better go," The road was empty of troops, so we | made up for lost time. Half an hour later we found the piace for which we had been Searching. is : It was a large country house stand- ing In" a MEsSs clump of trees. The { door was open. On the polished floor | were scattered a deck of cards, half a twenty feet between each. Then came | { beard above the din of battle his cool | reply, 'Surrender, be d---! As 'he sald this he fell. I reached out to { catch him, and then I knew no more | until ¥ found myself here. Now 1 | must go back there to find him. I know | Just where he is. It cannot be far." 1 thought. as he was talking. it must | have been just the moment that French { cavalry appeared on the crest of the | hill and the Germans fell back, other- | wise he and his beloved captain would | be lying on the battiefleld in the ene | my"s lines or, Dy rare good luck, In the | enemy's hospital. The hoy was not { badly wounded, and the ductor decided | © let him go out with the brancardiers | «nd search for his captain. it was a moonlight night, and as this | young subaltern, accompanied 'by the | surgeon, went down the graveled walk through the garden 1 followed them. The last 1 saw of Bim was as he swung himself into a waiting motor with sev- | cral.af the strete¢her bedrers and was | off toward the battlefield, where they had fought so desperately only a few hours béfore. I felt widlly excited. of that strange thrill, terrible and tragic, that bad b¥en 1 had seen so fuch of the hideous and ghastly that comes into every nurse's life at a receiving hospital that my ca- pacity for great exci! interrupted, "don't keéép the poor man 'on the operating table any longer, no matter whose friend he 18 or § We Aire not going to bed tonight at all, at al." she latghbed, "and tomorrow we will manage somehow -- but -- what about you?" "Oh, I'll find a place," I sald. "Don't worry about: that!" The place I really found was a lit te cot in my own room-that is, Cap- tain Frazer's roomn--for the present. Somehow 1 could not bear to think of leaving him alone. In case of a hem- orrhage in this condition I knew ft would be all over with him. An hour later, when I went back to the room, the sun had come up, and once again that long, monotonous roll of artillery filled the air. From my window, owing to the clearness of the day, 1 could see the city, with its old square church towers and red roofs. From time to time all this was blotted ut ip a cloud of smoke and red dust caused by the falling of bricks and tiles. Turning wearily away from the win. dow, I went slowly over to the bed and gazed long and earnestly at the bandsoine, fine face and the strong, athletic body, gracefully outlined un- der the course linen sheet.' There be lay, a splendid specimen of God's hand- iwyrk, helpless, finished, perhaps dy- ing--and this was war! 'He was 50 white and still I gently felt: for the pulse. + It was jerky and intermittent. 1 decided that the doétor had better see Hin. I &m afraid' my touch, al though 1 tried to make it light, must ba¥é' disturbed 'hiui, Tot he opened his eyes and looked at me, it seemed for minutes; with a quizziedl, rithet wor ried expression. Then'slowly from face and bis dyes the Ariwn, set lot af pal disappeared" and 'be smiled at 'me and said 'with 4 little of In his voice that T "Why, "you captain of his soul" gan loosening some of the As he was doing so I had a minute in which to look at the celebrated g eral. Ieaw & man of moderate brows gave his face sternness, but somehow I feit that his He looked it. =P Compe | Columbus, Obio.--*1 had almost given | up. 1 bad been sick for six years with n TRITTIT Ssintle sodas wr of Depot, and could not Golng West. No. 19--Mall | No: {No. 2 No. 31--L.ocal to 1 Belleville |, Golng ijeat anything wi ffout hurting my 2.68 a.m. No. 18----Mail . 16--Fast Ex CI SYSTEM Local Branch Time Table IN EFFECT MAY 30TH, 1915. lL] : : { Tral 111 d arrive at City Hs in my right | pepot i of Johnoon Sirteer. Lv. City. Ar. City, 12.20 a.m. 12.57 a.m. a great compliment, sir. It shows that they think we fight Ifke devils," at which the general la humor edly. For the last few days I bad been do- ing extra work inthe German prison ets' ward. Some way they came 'to They say there was once a woman who was actually proud of her hus- band, but she evidently drowned in the flood. : world and we'll take chances on get- ting a halo in the next. {Chicago, Bay - Give us an Easter bonnet in this No. 33--Local to Ld RK 1to Brockville .. 6.58 p.m. 7.37pm. Nos. 1, 6.7, 13 14, 36,18, 19 run dally, other tralns~daily except Sunday, Direct route to Toronto, Peterbore, Hamilton, Bu Londos, Detroit naw, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec; Tork ne St. John, Halifax, Boston and New York. rT steamers call Saskatchewan university has sent nearly 200 men for.war service. Srfroeprr om w. "Windwor( ) (Forts) oe Caen 0 0, . Sigepin "ar va LR and Jeago, Agent or the Robert For information Apply . ted, 50 King Street Bast, Te i +

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