El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-09-24
MANY WOUNDED
REACH LONDON
ALI Appear Cheerful and Say
Germans Cannot Shoot
Straight.
BY HERBERT TEMPLE

London, Eng, Sept 24.-Several hun
dred wounded British troops are now
arriving daily in London, and they
bring with them highly interesting
personal stories Of the war At the
railway stations, the wounded are al
ways greeted with cheers and money,
flowers and delicacies are showered on
them.
7 was at Mons on toe bridge across
the canal there, right in the thick OF
it." said a young infantryman- 1T was
there that 7 got this trouble, bullet
in the thigh" he added, pointing 10
a bandaged limb. But got the chap
who did it." he went on gaily, and pro-
duced a tobacco tin in which, with a
few shreds OF tobacco, was a shrapnel
we did not have much shelter
where I was" he said We Just had
to do the best we could.
The fire was frightfully heavy, but
you know they cannot shoot and waste
an awful lot Of ammunition The ar
tiIlerv are worst. but even the artil-
lerymen cannot shoot It's the num-
Der that does IL, nothing else
"As soon as we shot one lot down
another came up That's what hap
pened all the time. Their losses must
be enormous"
'Shootr contemptuously echoed a
burly infantryman, whose head was
swathed in bandages- Germans shoot
Why, they could not hit this station
at a thousand yards"
Chased Out of Hospitals.
An Argyll and Sutherland Highland
er, with a tremendous Scottish accent,
held forth from a stretcher to a group
Of listeners
'I wonder whether we shall be al
lowed TO stop in a hospital here" he
said I've been chased out Of two al
ready. The Germans shelled US in the
field hospitals, but they didn't do much
damage. YOU know.-artillery don't IN
less they can shoot and these
couldn't
I've been picking up clothes as I
came down." he went on, pointing 10
his shoes and socks. These are
French. and so IS this blanket" he
said, and was going to give further
details when he was picked up and
placed In a motor car.
have been awfully kind ito US" he
cried as he was borne off
Thinks Losses Exaggerated
think a great many OF our TEL
lows are only wounded" said q caval-
ryman- 1T does not do to take too
much notice Of what we hear. We
were told out there that the Second
Dragons had been cut Up, but we
came across them and they had lost
very Few men"
The Germans were like a grea+
battering RAM said another They
did not seem TO minds how many were
killed and sometimes their men were
simply thrown away.
At one place the German infantry
filled the streets and the men simply
moWn down by our guns. It was terri
bic punishment.
Red Cross Trains Arrive.
The first Red Cross train that ar
rived at Waterloo carried officers
First Of all, those who We're able TO
walk. were assisted TO alight- What
ever their pain. they disguised IL by
smiling, and several were smoking
Some had their heads euvelOped in
handaEes; others wore sings Many
walked with a limp. and several placed
their arms round the necks Of r A. II.
C. men and were assisted TO vehicles
One man walked with the aid Of a
crutch- Another had been hurt on
the jaw, but was smoking pipe with
great relish.
With expedition the officers whose
injuries were not severe were placed in
taXieabs, motor cars and private omnt-
buses
Then the stretcher brigade turned its
attention to the officers who remained
in the wards" Of the train Pillows
and blankets were placed on the
stretchers, and procession filed up
the platform and entered the train
The first officer brought out was
reading a newspaper and smoking a
cigaret. The next man, too. was smok-
ms His injury was to the leg
a third man had his knees drawn up.
All except one were looking CHEEKY.
Ambulance wagons and buses were
waiting. and one by one the wounded
were placed on beds and driven to the
hospital
The r. A. " C. and the ambulance
corps were still engaged in tending the
injured officers when a second train.
plastered with red crosses. ran IN at
the adjoining platform.
soldiers in Good Spirits.
Soon the soldiers were flOckinE out
Of the carriages The first group 20
walk to the cars mostly wore sings.
There were bandaged heads. arms
and shoulders. but the soldiers them
selves were in the best Of spirits and
jumped into the buses with the friski-
ness Of schOOlbOys
Some Of the wounded. however. were
more seriously injured. one man lay
on a stretcher. which was allowed TO
rest on the ground for some time. and
a doctor examined him and felt his
pulse
Others, TOO weak to move much, We're
lifted from stretchers into vans, where
they We're made comfortable on mat
tresses and blankets. with soft white
pillows for their heads.
The flower-girls threw their bios
sons at the soldiers