The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-29
wounded Are Rrco,

From tho Prefecture ] went 10 the
hopital. where only a few soldiers now
remain the rest having sufficiently recov-
AIRED since me lighting around Ssrlis to
rar,n their regiments or to bc sent on 10
,orvtle sen. homes. In an upstairs ward
nj .ha far end where hangs a cruciiiN
me wall around is ridd.ed with holes in
q c,od hv a mitrdllcu-e. and above the
pillow - one Of the wounded could be
..a, the deep hole made by German
bullet \ wounded Turco had narrow
sscape shot passing over him AVID
h.ccrn,rc embedded IN his mattress. For
,hr.. hours, tie sister told me. the hospital
vas bonharded iu this manner. ana judg-
ing bv the damage done /; was marvel
that every one escaped injury.
The scenes along IN" Rue de Ia h'pun-
r,uo we're most depressing. Nearly all
~ hpi,,imes in large sections Of this
street have been completely demolished,
ro.h.nr remaining but the CHARGED walls.
There we're one Or two except ons.
.org low white house set back In garden
where Gen. Won kluck stayed and whlch
mad belonged 10 q German was intact
rA.e the house OF a French cHasseur
csptAiu IN tine Rue de MeauN seems 10
i,tc been overlooked by the invaders
7, i an astonishing thing. as Capt.
sarois. who is a son OF Gen. Sanois ana
rarNaw OF the Archbishop or Cambria.
performed a particularly orlliaht anu
daring act during the lighting IN ms
ovn town. n. captured single handed
.ya ualans ard flag. for which gal
'4r,~y he was mentioned in despatches
and he, received the cross OF the Legion
n, Uo-or IL. was severely wounded a
l..,. penetrating his arm and coming
on through the shoulderblade. lie -
~ under treatment in the hospital az
Bordeaux. e..
ne h,tteldeld. Of whicn no signs now re-
.r..r .Ncrpt.nC the dep dug trencnrs
God los Tn. French troops and the SOL
,,rv graves Of the buried soldiers friehb
and foe. over which the peasants nave
erected primitive crosses Of t"lEs.
Returning hv another road, visited the
cathedral, which fortunately ESCAPED scrl-
OH. aanage, though few shells pene-
t-si.f tho body and broke on some or
n. r.rgoyles ~ well as a certain amount
81. ~, ornamental work From here
-e., 90 the home Of the late Mayor OF
,srns NJ Odant Il Is closed ana oe-
,.ried and tho garden uucared for qu"s-
t,ora,i my guide ~ 10 the Mayors detIl'
", r,rlied that the Germans had '"Nen
nm some distance from the town an"
shot him and that the cure hao ai'er
r..ri brought his body and buried Vt In
.-, local cemetery. asked him why the
I.rn,ans had shot him. He replied with
simon, ~ tho shoulders characteristic
..l"- French. How do know
We PASSED what remained OF the nt'I"
Gaze go ro,n; du Jour, the skeleton
- TIC tuildng consisting OF four pare
willis. charred and burned. with a,rort"h
~ tlo name Of IN" little hosiery sun 70
hc road on H. This, my guide sald' was
,Nc property ~ NJ. simon. who had been
80, D., in, Germans because he objected
20 furu.. hing them with tobacco niue
fnu.r along the street was pointed ou'
I, o.o time home Of a wine merchant a
" Ncir,t. who also had been shot by the
G.rritue for oven loss provocatl"n' N-
cJ-d.rc to the guides statement mus
'sdc-mlu haI been ordered to put ms
-'ou- A. the disposition OF the 'ern"n
solder IL showed them over the house
Indicating me bedrooms which were ~
to- disposal. a-d on going down stare
.-t.- no was by way of thanks sh't
de I