The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-12-03
PARIS SEES WAR
SPECTACLE PASS
Trainloads Of Wounded Bring
Evidence of Terrible Suffer
ing Home to City.
Gripping is the pen picture of a train.

914PPAuS Ia the pen picture VI q Aidli-
load OF wounded coming into q Paris
railroad station, as described by Regis
Gignoux IN the Figaro. One can almost
imagine oneself standing on the plat
form watching the wounded soldiers
hanging from the al windows, the
hustle Of nurses and stretcher bearers,
n the quiet nuns hprrying from car
to car with refreshments.
A train load OF wounded Is going
away. he writes; another backs down.
Soldiers are brushing off the platform,
nurses hasten to their stations beside
their canyas shelters, the nuns are
busy cutting bread. filling watering
pots, preparing oup and chocolate on
their movable furnaces. The surgeons
advance. casting one last look on the
reports and orders IN their hands;
stretcher bears follow them. At the
ans time some SO military nurses
march forward from the other side of
the station with provisions. each car
ry4ng q measure full of water besides.
The train comes to a stop. a thou
sand soldiers appear at the doors of the
compartments, but do not come out,
DO not speak; they only look. Some
have foreheads b~andaged. others have
their arms in sings; still more nave
their necRs bandaged. One does not
see those who are ounde in the legs.
Tor the doors are not yet opened.
one sees nothing but faces; faces
black or red or yellow, and hands that
seem enormous. One realizes that these
men need no words nor gestures to
make themselves understood. They Just
look. They are watching a young aux
1hary surgeon with flushed face and
feVerish eyes. with dropping shoulders,
who hurries up to the staff surgeons
with q list and information. The staff
surgeons at nee give their instructions
70 the stretcher bearers. Twenty dress
lngs to be made. IL men to be left at
Paris.
Work for Nurses and Nuns.
Then they re-enter the ambulance
citation on the platform installed by the !
society for helping the wounded. The
bears. accompanied by the auxiliary |
llrgeon. go to the head of the train.
And In the cars the soldiers under
Their trip because they are not serious
y wounded. They throw open the
noors. Some jump heavily on the plat
torn, others remain seated on the
Steps. And the women nurses and the
nuns hurry to them, washing faces and
hands. distributing sandwiches, filling
fater bottles. Boys run about, carry
ng newspaper and postal cards.
Inc bearers go to a car with an open
door. In 1t sits q territorial hospital
question him. He calls out to a wound
ed nam: Hey, old man. your dress
ing" !
Twelve s%tretchers IN four groups OF
tnree are fastened. one in each corner
ef the van. n from the platform one
TAN count the soldiers lying there by
the number of heavy shoes with glis-
tening hobnails which stick out. The
man whose wound is to be dressed hob
pies 70 the booth, ~steadying himself on
the shoulder of a bearer. Tie does not
look around; he is resigned to 1T all. |
on the other hand one of the men to
be taken Off n whose wound conse-
quently Is more serious. tries to lift
nlnaseir up from the stretcher to look
about him. The surgeon major YER
ifies his identity, talks to him and the
man SHOWS his legs bandaged up.
Gently there. gently" he has energy
enough te call TO the bearers who lift
him out. And he looks at the auto
mobile ambulance standing ready.
HIS stretcher is slipped in and we see
MIN no longer. but one hears the voice
pf the nurse-Just a moment, my dear, /
III you viii find yourself in white
sheets once more. on n real bed, far
from the noise. There now, you will
get well oon
Asks Sandwiches for Fees.
In the carriages and vans the nuns
are h~astenirg. carrying big watering
cans. filled with chocolate. and baskets.
Near the locomotive a railroad employee
stands guard over a van. Wounded
Germans look out of the omen door.
There is a little fellow. tanned a deep
brown, on his knees with hands
crossed over his stomach. On one
ginger is q wedding ring. He smells the
not water in the big watering pots
beside him. but asks for none. He
sways slightly. Another, both arms in
a scarf, leans back. looking far away.
Others are grouped about in the
snaaow, AS soon as a young girl nurse
climbs into the van and offers bread
and soup the man who was on his
knees does the service without a word.
without stopping his swaytng. The van
Keeps Its silence and immobility.
There are officers in some of the car
Tlages, but one must come close to SEQ
that they are officers. They onverse
with one another, a paper on their
knees. One recognizes them rather
sers them something to drink or from
Their gesture of acceptance, than by
their gallons. They do not leave the
carriage, simply budding closer SO that
g coflrade can stretch out comfortably
Now wo get to the last carriage, while
the men who's wound nave been
dressed return to their cars and the
men for the Paris hospitals are car
ried off In the ambulances.
Here Is a car full of cavalrymen and
trough h flimsy partitions bread
n cups Of chocolate are being passed
from one to another. A big French
window. believing for andwiches
while he is already munching one.
But you have been served" remon-
strates a nun. But I want them for
these boys" he says, pointing into the
next compartment, where five Ulhans
hre laughing until they almost loosen
up their dressings.
A whistle blows; the train Is going to
start, Up the platform runs a soldier.
looking for his compartment. He cam
not see very well. for his head is8cov-
cred with bandages. One catches a
glimpse of q big white ball., with 4 hole
IN the center through which is stuck a
lighted cigaret. He finds his compart-
ment y Jumps in. The door slams
Ind the train rolls slowly out.
When Sanity Returns.
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