Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-20
THE MEN IN THE BLUE SUITS
the Days Best Cartoons.


Victory belongs to those who
! know how to suffer a quarter OF an
hour more" This phrase OF tho IA
! NOUS japanese General Nogi sums up
| modern war. And what OF those who
! suffer, tho wounded by shot and she'll
| the grim Incomplete harvest OF war?
Modern war IL very cruel to the
! wounded, Just ms modern surgery and
modern science are kind and save
! many lives. which would have been
! lost formerly There Is none OF the
I awful sdualor and dirt Of the Crim"au
| observation-disclosures is preparation here
. and plenty Of H. The railway network
OF France makes II far rror. cnsv to
convex wounded To adequate hospitals
| far from tho BATH. line once the. can
he collected. But there is the rub She'll
/ ~" mikes ambulance work very rcril-
Gus indeed. since the cnemvs artillery
/ men fire on ANYTHING moving, 1T dis
! ,anccs which make II difficult to dis
/ 'ingutsh those carving out an GRAND
Of mercy from the attncsir;: troops.
/ Hut the wounded gre picked up un|c-
{ the heaviest nr". There are plenty OF
brave ambulance men and stretchcr-
/ hcnrerr
/ - ono cf these latter said 10 nc.
! 1T is not the shells that bother us so
/ much. bu, II IS vcrv hard to cnrry =
/ heavily loaded strctchcr when all t'.a
I time one is falling over dead bodies
I and horses
But often the wounded have 20 u"
/ out for hours. In a zone Of retreat
! and attack. where no helm can cone
( To them. During the nigh, rair may
/ como. hu, II the ground he s,lll con-
/ tested nobody can 20 there at n!
Md from the darkness go up cries
| of water, water. help" gradually
! wcakering rs the strength OF tho sut-
| fercr eNbs away.
Use OF Emergency First Aid.
The use Of the emergency first aid.
| applied by fellow wounded ON the field
| or battle. has saved many lives For
| sometimes II IL quite impossible for a
| doctor to reach The woundcd bat n
| less severely injured comradc. rolling
I over and over. may be able to arres, Il
( hemorHhag. and save T. HE
! How wounded suffer ana endure Is
we'll illustrated by the case OF some
! regiments which had taken up n posi-
/ zion across river; they We're cut to
1 ribbons but could not be collected.
/ Finally the wounded we're fcrried across
on RATS during the night. tire" Mt "A
} time, under shell ;lrc-ihis after TWEEN
/ ~ hours exposure ia wet trenches
Then they were taken TO the hos
I pitnl in Il church. No sooner there
than the roof was taken off by shells,
+ and :: move into the cellar was nd :
wounded by bullets. but more by
spiintcrs or shell ana shrapnei STAG
/ rcrcd forth to seek safety. There were
, only few stretchers, and men who
/ were sure they could not walls walked
/ all the same, cling!Ug TO their com
! iades. Thus through the night for
/ TWO miles TO where the motor amhu-
/ lances were waiting. Then forty miles
I 10 railroad-jolting and suffering as
the fractured bones rasD ana crate to-
4 Eal a 4 - Al tho
days. with every rail giving Il throb, to
! hospital But. thanks TO the efficiency
! OF the field hospitals, there is little
! commemorative. that is. compared
with what might be.
Horrors or Hospital Trims.
Those hospital trains--what an ex-
I pcrience it is to travel In them! The
smells, the indescribable horrors. the
! pitiful suferings OF men from the
trenches. with blood -sodden band
ages, joitcd for hours between country
! stations, without a cup OF hot coffee or
! a change OF rags! And Yet all that can
(, he done is done. IN this friehtful
| hurry -burly OF war, when a few hun
+. drcd yards backward or forward may
/ mean thousands more wounded - be
dealt with, it is Impossible that there
I should not be great suffering. Motor
| vehicles have done much to reduce the
time Of suffering, but there is still
| much.
q,
these sufferers. saw 4 Highlander.
whose arm had been cut Off by one of
his own officers i'm a trench--it had
been terribly shattered by n she'll
cheerfully smoking on his stretchcr.
! dissatisfied with his French cigarette,
| but cheerful, very cheerful.
81 will be first-rate for opening taxi
doors in the Strand; lucky it was my
! left arm" was his comment.
Another Tommy was drinking tea,
that beverage beloved OF the army,
when bullet took him In his right
arm. He carefully transferred tho
| pannikin to the left hand and finish ed
/ his tea.
Men have been known TO ask to be
shaved on arriving In Paris TO go to
! hospital so as to appear clean to the
/ nurses.
cant shock them with beard like
that" said burly sergeant with four
bullets i'm him. And yet at the hos
pitfalls il takes something to shock
! them now.
saw tho arrival at the Ritz Hotel,
now partly Il hospital, Of French
! private who had come from the east
ern frontier. tie had had forty days'
continuous work in the trenches. with
out taking his clothes off, without
! shaving, without washing. He was Il
regular wild man OF the woods. His
| clothes had to be cut off him. And
| he was having II fine time with all
|
| mediation OF n nrst-class hotel.
| Hotels Make Fine Hospitals.
That Is one thing-modcrn hotels
| make fine hospitals. The supply Of
| hot and cold water Is especially use
| full. But the mems troubles arc over
| when they arrive at n real hospital
! 1t is the transit from the firing line
! to the hospital which Is terrible for
| them.
| Cleanliness is the keynote of tho