The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-27

work Of rescue on the battlefelds of
western Europe which !s heing carried
on by American surgeons and college
men. The report oea.s particularly
with the activities Of the doctors and
the two hundred students OF American
colleges and univei stiles who are vol
unteer workers in the American Am
bu.ance Hospital at Paris. and at Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney's Hospital b."
near the field of action. and as drivers
OF motor ambulances and stretcher
carriers throughout the entire area Of
the western theatre of war.
Much has beer printed as to what
the American college boys were cx-
pected to do while driving ambulances
and carrying s~tretchers. Readers OF
THE SUNDAY SUN now are given Off
cial ,tatements as to just what they
have been doing and what they are
doing at present. The Inspector-Gen-
eral In command Of the fourteen trains
OF motor ambulances Is A. Pia An
drew, formerly Assistant Secretary OF
the United States Treasury. He has
received letters Of appreciation from
officers Of the French army in regard
TO the American volunteers in the
work of rescuing wounded soldiers.
With them he has forwarded to the
New York headquarters Of the Ameri-
can Hospital Ambulance his own ohi-
cial statement, which is addressed to
Mr.. Hereford in charge OF the New
York headquarters Of the American
Hospital. 1t is as follows:
.'The section Of the north, which.
for convenience. we have called the
Dunkirk section. Is now divided into
two parts with ten ambuiances In
each. One part is stationed at the
railway station In Dunkirk wher 1t
served for the evacuation hospital To-
Gated in the freight house. Our men
carry wounded from this evacuation
hospital to more than a score OF nos
pitfalls in Dunkirk. Maio, Bergues,
B%ourbourg, Gravelines. Zuydecote
other towns, and they also bring nack
the conyalescents from these hospitais
10 the trains which carry them to hos
pitals and resting places In the inte-
rlor of France.
"As YOU know, Dunkirk has been
bombarded by the heaviest artillery
during last month. Shells as tall as a
man and II inches in diameter have
Sropped into Dunkirk from batteries
located So kilometers distant. They
drop without any preliminary warn
ing and their explosion utterly ami
hilates everything within range. Dur
ing these commandments our men nave
rendered great service in picking up
the killed and wounded IN the streets.
Fortunately, none Of u men or ma
chimes has suffered any injury.
.The other part Of the northern Sec
ton IL stationed at Poperinghe. where
the men live and eat In q little Flemish
farmhouse Just outside the town.
Some of the men sleep In the straw
In q barn loft and the rest sleep on
stretchers in a small room. In which
all the men also eat. One man goes
back with a machine each day to Dun
kirk and is replaced by q man from
Dunkirk, who brings out another ma
chine with meat already cooked
other supplies.
"Thus the personnel changes every
ten DAYS, and the men who have been
working about Poperinghe are able 10
live more comfortably for ten days at
Malo. a seaside resort near Dunkirk.
where they are billeted: and while
there they are able to work under
more favorable conditions upon their
machines.
THE men at Poperinghe have very
little to do in the daytime. but at night.
without phares or oil lamps, they set
out after dark over rough pavements,
in many cases badly torn by shells.
and creep along some seven or eight
miles on tho road to Woesten. where
is located III tent hospital (relai dam
bulance), called the Ambulance Moro
caine.
Formerly they went to Elverdinshe.
somewhat nearer Ypres, but during
the last three or foul weeks Elver-
dinghe has been virtually destroyed by
shells, and the chateau which served
as a hospital was hit a number OF
times and had to be evacuated. From
the relay tent hospital in Woesten they
get their orders for the various postes
de secours along the User Canal. and
so the ambulances move along in
groups of two or three to Boesinghe,
Zuidschoote and other villages, where
in little Flemish farm houses are To-
Gated the dressing stations.
THE wounded are brought here d.
rectly from the trenches or roads on
which they have fallen and are carried
back from these primitive stations to
the tent hospital in Woesten. Our men
often make several trips during the
night. They are all the time in the
midst of a deafcning thunder Of can
non fire and cracking musketry, and
rockets and fusees from the French
and German trenches. one-quarter or
a mile away, illumine the night as for
n holiday celebration.
I'VE have, as you know, two sec
tons in the east, n in Alsace and
one on the frontier of Lorraine, The
section working in Alsace is stationed
at st. Maurice sur Moselle, a clean lit
tie village in the Nosges about three
or four miles this side of the former
frontier and surrounded by lofty
mountains. From here our cars go
each day up over the pass and
through the tunnel which leads into
what a yea & was German terri
tory, and then down a zigZag road
through a series of picturesque little
towns to various hospitals at MoOsch,
St. Armarin and Kruth, where the
wounded have arrived in hand carts or
on mulebaCk from the surrounding
heights. often after trips Of sever
eight or ten hours through trenches
and mountain paths in regions where
there are no roads.
THE following account from one OF
orr men in this gastinn piNlS "a good