The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-01-12
For Hours and Sometimes for
Days before Their Comrades
Can Pick Them Up.

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| Correspondence OF Associated Press).
PARIS, Jan. 4 3 Since hostilltiea
settled down to a siege along the riy-
lers and canals Of the north, the aver
Iage number Of casualties per day
seems to have lessened. But the
work Of the ambulance department..
| is all the more hazardous. Men who
| fell in pitched battles were often lost
I in concealed places. but what Ia
worse now Is that they often lie In
plain sight obliged TO wait for hours,
sometimes for days before 1t is possi-
BILE for their comrades to pick them
jup. 1t is often too late.
When nan is wounded In the
trenches he is able to get back to the
field hospital, Il he can walk; II not
| he must wait until night because the
trenches are SO narrow that the
stretcher bearers cannot carry q
wounded man through them he must
be lifted but and carried back above
ground.
r When a charge Is made between
the lines Of trenches and proves to
be unsuccessful the wounded OF
course must be left; in too many
cases they are actually sacrificed and
their comrades obliged to see them
lying helplessly between two fires.
| Sometimes they see them raise q
hand and occasionally they hear their
Idespafring cries but to attempt to
save them Is out of the question.
Cases hava been reported in which
men charging against barbed-wire
ldefenses and wounded in the attempt
have been left for days hanging in
| the tangled v Tres.
The chaplain of a French regiment
describing the work Of the ambu-
lance corps after great battle, says:
1--WE had a long evening tour to
make as we we're obliged to visit the
advance posts Of Rozelieres, Remen-
lonyille and Gerbvillers. Without
lanterns, in order not to betray our
position we advanced silently over
roads gashed by shells and deeply
Quilted by heavy artillery. From the
|hill tops we saw; a rudy glow from
burning villages.
Here and there were flashes Of
light, followed by the explosion OF
shells and through the sky yeritable
burrows OF fire. It was all that re-
yealed. the sinister presence, of hostile
armies. The silence was impressive
lat times: but only by the cawing Of
lcrows and the reports Of artillery.
1--we found Rozelieres; deserted,
ruined; only lew houses still stand
ling and they were burning. Renon-
lyille was unacceptable. We found
Ithsrtv xvounS3ed Init We could take
lonly ten OF the worst.
1.-THE road to Gerbvillers. bordered
fby tall poplars, runs along the Prus.
lsian lines; in daylight we should
have been wiped out.
4 at was nearly: midnight when we
reached the entrance to the village
1.-THE theaterl of deadly conflicts for ten
days.
The little hospital there seemed an
asylum in he'll; aione 1t stood in the
midst OF the collapsed town, saved
thanks to the presence OF wounded
Germans. Built to aeccmodate thirty
lit sheltered $50 and reeked with the
odor of blood, powder and drugs; we
couid take only thirty of the mos,
serious cases. The task OF sorting
them out was heartrendering. they
lwere all In sich sore need. AS we
started out the shells began to fall
again thick and fast all around us
and between the roaring crashes we
theard the groans and supplication.
of the wounded In the ambulance be
hind; one crying constantly fol
mother. =
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