The sun., 1914-09-12
AMERICANS TREAT
BRITISH WOUNDED
First Batch Of Injured Men
Reaches Hospital at
Neuilly.
SOFT NOSE BULLETS USED
One Soldiers Hand Was Blown
to Pieces-All Fingers
May BE Saved.
SOFT NOSE BULLETS USED
Special Cable Despotch 10 Tur sus.


PARIS, Sept. 1.-THE first batch OF
wounded. numbering So. from the bat
tlefields Of Compiegne and Ourcq ar
rived at the American ambulance hos
pital established In the Lycee Pasteur
at Neuilly. The correspondent Of The
suN visited the hospital to-day and
talked with some OF the wounded.
One British trooper of the Sixth
Dragons, who was shot in the thigh,
said he got his wound on "A moonless
night. lie was scouting ahead OF his
troops when he suddenly found himself
In a body of German cavalry He closed
with one Of the Germans and both dis
charged their carbines at the same
moment. While the German carried his
carbine low down the Englshman
body The German was hit In the
chest. while the Englishman was
wounded in the thigh.
The same trooper told of seeing a
deserted automobile standing in the
road containing three Frenchmen and
"a woman. all dead. lie supposed they
had been killed by a volley fired by
German uhlans. one OF the woman's
hands was hanging Imply over the
side of the automobile. 1t had been
despoiled of its rings.
on another day the trooper met an
old woman who had been pierced in
the abdomen by the lance of uhlan
to whom she had refused to give bread
or TO tell him where to get 1t. The
woman died before the troopers eyes.
Another English soldier OF the Eighth
Hussars, boy of 20, from Stafford,
near Manchester. said his foot was
crushed by an English artillery wagon.
He said the English cannon were ter
ribly destructive. They moved down
the Germans like a scythe." The num-
bers of the Germans engaged In the
fighting were simply overwhelming. He
thought that at times they outnumbered
the English 80 to |. The day before
he was hurt he and his troops stopped
in n farm yard. yhey caught, plucked
and began TO roast five geese and three
hens when the Germans appeared In
force. They had to abandon the meal
and the Germans doubtless ate it.
This Hussar said whenever his regi-
mcnt went into camp a German aviator
appeared over their heads. Couse-
uuently the regiment often pretended
to camp and when the aviator disap-
peared moved of to another position.
a hospital surgeon told the corre-
spondent that there were only two cases
of wounds in tho breast of English
soldiers. There were only two wounds
Of a suppurative character in the entire
iifty-two cases. one mans hand was
blown to pieces, evidently by a soft
nosed bullet, but it is expected that It
viii not be necessary to amputate any
finger
The hospital has a complete supply OF
scientifically filtered water. Some of II
is sterilized by the aid Of violet rays.
The medical staff OF the hospital has
been recruited in Paris except that one
surgeon is from Vienna. 1t is cosa-
posed OF Drs. Du Bouchet and Blake,
General supcrintendcnts, assisted by
Drs. Magnln, Brumcr Conkling. Gros,
Davenport, Hayes, Jaugcas, koenig,
Lyon, Turner and Braithwaite
Among the women staff are: Chief
nurse, Miss DevercauX; chief operating
nurse, Miss Doane, Mrs. Vanderbilt,
Mrs. Monroe and Mrs. Morris. daugh-
ter of fornNr American Consul-Gen-
cral at Paris. one of the operating
room orderlies is +. f. Roosevelt
second cousin of Col. Theodore Roose-
Welt. who is an employee of Spalding's
store in Paris. MIR, MacAdams, an
American sculptor. heads the dishwash-
ing brigade