The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-17
But They are "Punk' With
Rifle Declare Wounded Brit
iSh Soldier
SHRAPNEL AS A SOUVENIR
1.-THE Germans Can Fight
Says Edward Cross; "They
Got at Us From the Side and
Their Machine Guns Did the
Business: Many Went
Down Not to Get Up Again

DuSlIleSS Wdny Wenl
Down Not to Get Up Again
(London letter in New York World. }
Through the courtesy Of the Ouch
ess of Marlborough, Chairman Of the
Executive Committee. and Lady Ran
dolph Churchill. Chairman Of the
Hospital Committee, OF the American
Women's War Relief Fund, a repre-
sentative of The World was permitted
to inspect the American hospital at
Pa1gnton, a small town in South
Devon. SiXty-three wounded British
soldlers had just arrived, and the
unse Ward-the largest in the hos
pital-was seen under most trvins
conditions. DR.. Howard w. Beal, head
or the American Red Cross unit as
signed to the hospital, is in charge
OF this ward, assisted by Drs. ". N.
Leonard and William T. Fitzsimons.
mere were upward Of seventy pa
TENTS in the ward.
Nearly every ward was alive with
monographs or talking machines of
some description, and around these
lowered dozens Of the less serions1v
"A ragtime melody We'd
with tina OF an opera singer; a cloud
OF smoke arose from pipes, cigars and
cigarettes.
n Grim Souvenir.
Polnt1ng to a wounded man. the
left i d of whose face was black and
swollen, DR.. Beal said:
ASK MN TO show 0 the piece Of
that hit him; he kept if for
a souvenir"
Inc man was George Harper OF the
ttlle 8 He had been wounded
IN a recent engagement near Bethune.
ne TOOK from a small cupboard be-
SIDE his cot the head of a German
shrapnel shell.
- never knew anything after that
nIt me sir" said Harper. "It hit
ne ground first and then took me
IN the Jaw. Yes, it hurts some now
Tor three teeth were knocked out and
part OF the jawbone broken-so the
doctors say. These American doc.
TORS and nurses are fine. The artil-
Iery fre Of those Germans was ter
rlrnc; shells bursting everywhere. We
lay IN the trenches and couldn't get
d. EN- linen came the shell that
got me and a lot Of other fellows
When I came to l looked for . vs. vs.
VINO had been next to me. There
wasn't much left Of him. 1eana6
over and picked up this shrapnel head
lor a souvenir. You can see where
some OF the red is still on it. The
ooItorS say I've got a piece Of shraD-
nel IN my throat and a bullet in nv
chest' and that I'm a ucky DOG to
be here" ' ooS 70
DIT. Beal showed where the niece
or shrapnel lay buried in the pacL
and remarked: Ao nech'
nov he ever got out Of # ia
miraculous. There goes a chan dow
ene aisle VINO was shot behind the
eal, an eighth Of an inch and he
would have been done for hut uhne
the bullet struck the bone # 1an"a = y
you Have TO Hand 1t to En-"
harper quoted some of the Priti,h
olncers as saying that the Germans
idd erected some concrete gun baca
near Paris long before the var
nDo you believe it?" he appealed
1hose devils bought up farms and
Quarrles around scissors and .1anu
the Aisne long before the var TbbnEg,
got hold Of places fifteen miles fron,
Paris and put down concrete hasna
foU Wont wonder how thew conld -
so much damage with their tTao1,
J~ohnsons around Namur and Soissonn
When you know they had the ranges
already figured out before the VA
o nave to hand it to EN-: thew CO..
do the trick with the artillery ian
they are punk with the rifle"
or the sixty who were asked aho,+
their experiences not one beerndgeS
praise to the Germans for tbeir
proves with artillery. Nearly 81,
agreed that the inf~antry-fring va
punk" but they excepted the sharn.
shooters, who, they said, had nicLaa
off the officers to such an ~annaIino
extent that many Of the officers die.
carded their swords and carried elns
to deceive the marksmen.
Seth Williams Story.
go over md see Seth Wi,Iiansn
the chorused when asked
might have a good yarn. VINO
",iliams at one time worked .,
the tube to Hobokanu ~
lived in Elizabeth. ana
III mad oniy a fortnight to serve ;,
clared, and I had 10 60 ~ was de-