Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-11-09
(By Herebert Corey.)

London, Nov. 9.-Henery Phillips
mas upon occasion cut sandwich
and served me with glass of beer
IN a delicatessen shop on Oxford
stiss rathsr Ashery shH s,d;,,na !; little man
sort of little man. He was chiefly
remarkable for the unfailing good hu-
NOR with which he cut sandwiches
and served beer
Yesterday I saw letter from Hen
cry, written from hospital at Lege.
When the war began Henery became
sort Of little soldier. How he, be-
ing raw recruit, managed to get to
the front so soon do not pretend to
know. But he got there.
IL am getting along all right,
Henery !i wrote. IT got shot through
right. 1t hurts some. This is a fine
place to be in."
That is all there is of Henery's
story. But it serves as an introduce
tion to q story Of wholesale heroism.
These men who are being wounded
in this greatest of wars take their
wounds in the spirit in which Hen
cry is taking his.
1T hurts some," they say, with
their deprecatory smiles. "But this
Is fine place to be in.'
They all take 1t that way-English
and French and German. 1 have Just
talked with q doctor who for four
He had been captured by them. Then
his hospital was captured by the
French. He was invalided home.
There isn't penny's worth of diff
ference in the bravery of the men of
any nation" said he. perhaps the
Germans are more stolid about bear
ing pain, but the French bear it just
noo1V ho IN Oh o1
to joke about it a little more, but
maybe that was because better un-
derstood his jokes"
You and finch from sore finger
and make a frightful pother about a
toothache - cannot understand the
courage of these Henery Phillipses at
the front.
There were $4,000 German wound
ed after the big BATTLE" said the doc
tor. "Of course, the hospital facilities
broke down. No army In the world
can handle such flood Of injured
men,"
Lying Wounded in Field q Week.
1.-THE best that could be done was
to give them first aid and put those
bound for the rear. Some of them
had lain upon the field OF battle for
a week. I heard of a FRENCH soldier
he keeps little restaurant on tho
outskirts of Paris-who had been shot
through the chest. Somehow he man
aged to get his coat and shirt off.
Then he put first aid bandage about
his flowing wounds. For two days
he waited, propped up against pile
of dead, until the stretcher men found
him.
"He saved his own life," continued
the admiring doctor. II don't know
how he did 1t, but that bandage was
put on as we'll as could have done
it."
When the German doctors reach a
wounded man a hasty examination of
the wounds is made at once. Then q
card with three perforated divisions
in colors is tied to his coat. If one
perforation is torn off the stretcher
men place him on a train for the rear.
If the second is torn off he Is taken
to one of the base hospitals. to be
moved when he is able to stand it.
If the third perforation Is torn off he
is made comfortable where he is-if
that be possible-in the hope that.
after all, he may not die.
1T exemplified the German thor
oughness." said the surgeon. "It was
a perfect card index system for bat
tlefield use. That portion of the card
tied to his coat bore the name and
regimental number of the wounded
man. It identified him on his slow
progress toward the rear-or insured
q marker on his grave If he died.
Men who could be moved without
dying were officially classed as slight
ly wounded. Often they were four or
five days upon the train before their
wounds were again opened ~
Nothing else could be done." said
the surgeon. There were not enough
doctors at the front to handle them.