Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-07-22

THE bomb was constructed to be thrown
/ so wards. and In the excitement or thinss
/ he held n bomb a little too long DeioIe
| throwing It among the Germans enu !
| exploded. tearing of the whole OF nus
| right arm and ripping MS tlBht sue Vpe"
all the way down. -,
"tJe was quite conscious and could
sneak. so / carried him about quarter
OF a mile-dragged him, rather, Tor my
kneecap wasn't exactly comfortable. ne
was awfully brave all the time, poor
Mundy but suddenly he went quite mad
and bolted in the darkness straight into
the German lines, where, OF course, he
was instantly shot to pieces. 1t was a
good thing, too for he was in a terrible
condition.
BETWEEN FIRE AND FIRE.
Another awful scene occurred when
the French retired. They called out 10
the civilians that the Germans had
broken through and were advancing from
Ypres The women all became panic
stricken and started to run for Ypres,
which was being heavily shelled by tho
Germans. 1t was a terrible position for
tho poor creatures-on one side the GER
mans and on the other the burning city
OF Ypres.
BARRIcADE OF DEAD.
THE dead were SO thick that we
used them as barrlcades. Many of them
had lain there since the first battle for
Calais in October. Many and many
time have 1 shot from behind barri-
cade of dead heaped up to height OF
six feet in one long line.
GERMANS WASTE SOLDIERS.
THAT is one method OF German war
fare, you know. The first line advances
and is moved down like corn by our
artillery. The next line then advances
and is in turn shot down, falling upon
the bodies of their comrades. When sur
ficlent men are shot down to form
barricade, the Germans continue opera
tiUns behind the wall Of dead.
"Asphyxiating gas is the most terrible
thing one can imagine. You see men
screaming to be shot when they have
been poisoned by it, It seems to tear
their lungs to pieces. myself had the
mercst touch of IL once, and can assure
you that 1t is agonizlng-inhnitely worse
than any woundl
Before this bayonet wound in the leg
laid me out altogether" continued Pri-
vate Edwards, II visited a nunnery near
Caestre in northern France, and was
shocked to see the nuns had been killed
and horribly mutilated. Going through
the Belgian villages was horror to me.
Women and children and old men were
lying everywhere, and the women, In par
ticular, were outrageously mutilated.
talked with lots of small Belgian boys,
who had had their hands cut off, and
there were many dead boys, just chill
dren, lying around with their feet cut off.
GERMAN ATROCITIES.
Tho atrocities were so terrible that l
hate even to think of them, and only
wish could forget the sights 1 saw in
Belgium and Flanders Three of our men
were cruciied by the Germans. 1 saw
one of them bayoneted UP against n barn
door-and that's another thing 1 wish L
could forget
"Our dressing stations were, of course,
perpetually shelled by the Germans, and
the wounded were always fired on as they
were carried off the field. One shell hit
Red Cross wagon, killing and completely
carrying away six founded soldiers in
side. But above the roar of battle the
chauffeur didn't hear anything odd and
he drove on to Steenstardt 1t was only
when he arrived there that he discovered
the tragedy-and his empty wagon"
TORTURED BY WOUNDS
"Dld you suffer much pain with your
three seperate wounds?" inquired one of
the party.
"I'm afraid they did hurt little" said
Private Edwards reluctantly and in quite
an apologetlc tone You see for 10 days
after 1 had no medical attention, but had
to lie around in the trenches. my leg
roughly bandaged up by myself and II
large bullet below the kneecap, as well as
the bayonet cut. which was 10 inches
long and very deep. But what worried
me more was that went totally blind
for several weeks. A high-eXplosive shell
had burst near me, and the conclusion
blinded me. My sight has come back at
last, and have very much to be thank
| full forl Don't you think so?"
| We made no reply, for the horrors OF
the war has gripped us all too tightly for
mere words.