Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-12-07
FORMER HILO DOCTOR TELLSOF
WORK FOR WOUNDED TRENCHES

no-man's land between the trenches
must now be patrolled This is really
exciting. The grass is long and wet,
II is cold and dark and the German
patrol may be within five yards Of
you before you hear or see anything,
But the Germans always run away!
"They are SO extraordinarily glad
to get back that they often abandon
things. Yesterday we got dog; the
day before newspaper; the day be-
fore bayonet.
Allies Have Most Planes.
I'VE have also an immense superior.
fly in guns-at least six to one-and
in aeroplanes. The German aeroplanes
always scoot for dear life when one
Of ours goes up. Yesterday / saw Is
French aeroplanes at one time.
Il have my regimental aid post in
large dugout in the village. Ny staff
consists Of: First, "a stretcher bear.
ers. These, with their stretchers and
first aid appliances. such as bandages,
are distributed along the firing line.
One third Of them are always awake
and ready, day and night
"If man gets hit, his officer at
once telephones to me and calls the
stretcher bearers. They run to him
and give first aid. Then they put him
on the stretcher If possible and start
to carry him down the trench to the
aid post This may take anything
from 20 minutes to an hour, according
to the amount of mud in the trenches.
IF the case is serious one / some
times walk up to meet the bearers,
but as rule II is best to await them;
in the meantime my orderlies are get
ting ready. Lotions are heated up, a
cup Of tea is made, lights prepared
and all the details attended to.
opiate and Soft Pillow.
Meanwhile a message is sent to
the field ambulance in the next vii.
lage and they are warned. The man
arrives and is given something hot and
stimulating II it is thought advisable.
His field dressing is taken off and his
wound cleaned. bleeding. checked, or
anything else done which Is necessary
II he is in pain, which he often is not
he is given kindly opiate and soft
pillow. A splint, perhaps, is needed,
or firm bandage, or sling.
BY this time the motor ambulance
will have arrived and the man is on
his way to the base at once. AS a
matter of fact our village is so dan
gerous from shell fire that the motors
are not allowed to come up. And the
man has to be carried another 1400
yards over to the next village where
the motor waits for him in safety.
My two orderlies are ordinary sol
diers who have been trained for this
kind of work. They are always on
duty and one of them goes with me
wherever ! go. They carry rifles and
cartridges and form a sort of body.
guard for me.
1 also have personal servant: q
soldier who does my washing, makes
my bed, cleans my boots, and so on,
and kills Germans on the side
Thinks Resources Epbinq.
Things have been very quiet Our
line was not disturbed during the re-
cent fighting. | feel, as we all do,
that the Germans have come to their
last resources. Their attack IN Serbia
will be checked as was their. raid on
Paris. Then they may make one
more attempt in this direction pos
sibly they may try the naval issue
and they will ask for terms by next
Christmas.
"Of course that is merely a guess
and probably you who can read all
kinds of papers and. talk to all sorts
of people might make a better one.
On the other hand il is the result Of
frst-hand impressions. There is no
reason to suppose that the Germans
n front of us are not typical. We
iidn't select them. There is no doubt
whatever that they are afraid of us
and only want to be left alone.
In one place, on our left, our line
IS only 81 yards from their trenches
You can smell their bacon and hear
them talking and laughing.
so we really do know our Bosch
pretty well. And we think that he is
unning an enormous bluff He is a
house of cards, snowman-and, in
act, you see him melting. Before
ong he will be impotent and the great
nanann will he -