Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-15
DIARY OF WOUNDED SOLDIERS REVEALS
 0RDEALS OF WAR
French Fighter Writes Graphic
 Account of His Experience While Lying for Hours Un- cared for on the Battlefield.

cared for on the Battlefield. ] PARIS. Nov. 14 Correspondence Of The Associated Press These ex- tracts from the letter of an unnamed [ French soldier Co his father n Paris | are published by the Figaro
 Wounded in tho stomach about 6 | o'clock in the morning 1 am left in !. the rain and in mud so deep that l am obliged to lean on my elbow to geep my head out of it.
 'The battle continues to rage l am | between the two camps, and, without eXaggeration, more than 15O.000 bal lets pass over me Some struck at my sides and I expect each moment to receive one which win cut short the spectacle. ] remain thus help less from six in the morning until four the mex afternoon and the ram does not stop. It is then that l ap- preciate the need of an umbrella. who never carried one ! unbutton my coat, but l am unable to deter mine the gravity of my wound for there is as much mud as blood.
 Toward two o'clock there is Hull in the firing l await the stretcher bearers, but like sister Anne, they do not come. The hours seem atroci- ously long, although l no longer pay any attention to the rain which con tinues Finally. tward 4 o'clock in the afternoon l see coming in place of tho looked for stretcher bearers TT the Germans
 This time it is for good" I say to myself. "I am done for A blow from a rifle butt or a thrust of the bayonet
 and they would finish me. A last
 thought of my family and l try to
 take my own rifle and end it. It is useless. The gun is no more than
 lump of mud. of sticky clay There are five long minutes during y which ] exist with a calmness that n surprises me. A German asks me ,- in French How are you?" ? I showed him the place where ] c am wounded
 n "Reassure yourself" he says, That g will perhaps amount to nothing In
 any case you will get we'll" Is "I learn they are from Lorraine IS which is lucky They are clad in grey d which makes them almost invisible in S war I speak of this to them. They 1t answer:
 V. Indeed with your red trousers we 1- can see you long distance. You
 make superb targets
 id "The Germans went on their way a promising to return to look for me "a as well as others who like myself lay
 on the battlefield l take hope |
 seems good to be alive, although
 am in a sorry plight
 R "The hours pass; night arrives. II
 still rains Day breaks. No one is neither stretcher bearers nor my LOT ,d raines of the day before. It is not un an til four o'clock in the afternoon O ,e the second day that the Germans ,o come back l have passed 34 houri ,v in reflection in the raiu with a wOun, ,e which caused me much suffering ,e "The Germans put me on a can
 vass with two pieces of wood al .o either end They carry me to a ham od let, about llilometer and a half dis ,c tant, and stretch me out there il he the open air, sull in the rain, but ol ,d frmer ground Then they go bacl or to search for others. They bring bacl re 700 or 800 wounded of whom 40 arr nd French.
 q am soaked l am famished re munch with joy a bit of army biscui ,d which l find delicious Upon my LII i'm gent enueaty, a German consents t .a. give me glass of wine from hi of flask which he has just filled. at. ttank him. That warns me Tn bc German is going away, when h
 changes his mind and demands pay
 ment for his glass of wine l iabbe
 a little German ! understand and giv d him ten sou piece the only none
 have left He takes himself off cor ,e tent
 .r some German officers come { .r. talk to us. One of them says to me st Tt is your governments fault tha mi you are here
 nd "rhey all speak French note tn sb remarks of this officer because In. appears to me to indicate a curiou
 mentality
 "The third day of this calvary, the
 put us in a barn on the hay We hay
 as yet received no care. ] beg tn
 Germans to take off my clothes ial have been able to snare a blanke
 which happens to be there l don on know to whom it belongs, but nece fi sity stiles scruples They are quit ed willing 10 do what asked My coa th my watersoaked trousers. whic in were little less than packages of mu' Ter are removed My falling shoes, m lp- underdrawers and socks follow tn ge same route My feet and my woun
 make me suffer l take out my littI
 pocket scissors cut my shirt am
 flannel belt free of my wound whic
 have not seen. It is disressingl
 long, but nothing astonishes me an ye longer, after what have seen st- make, as good as it is bad a dressin a out of the first aid things in m