The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-05
ALLIES LINES ARE
DEEMED UNBREAkABlt
Correspondents Make Trip To Lines
Depended on to Stop
Germans.
AMERICAN WoMAN's HOSPITAL
Mrs. Borden Turner, of Chicago, Has
Model Institution for Caring for
Wounded Soldiers on Banks OF
User.

sept. AL our correspondent mas /
just spent two days automobiling |
through the unoccupied part of Bel |!
GUM. including visits 10 various points
just behind the first twenty miles of
the front line from Newport inland. |
which is held by the French troops. |
He made the trip as one of six cor
respondents invited by the foreign Of |
flee. We were accompanied b: a !
captain from the war Office and a cap /
tain specially detached from the staff
Of General Joffre. Every opportunity !
was given us TO study the prepara- |
tiuns now being made for the winter |
campaign and to study the possibility |
Of success if the Germans withdraw
troops from Russia and attempt 4
drive to Calais by this route, which |
might appear not only the quickest |
but the easiest.
on neither point can anything but |
generalities be printed, but as regards I
both il is unnecessary to be military |
expert to recognize the completeness
Of the former and the hopelessness of
the latter. Lines OF trenches the con- |
struction of which is the result of |
long experience. are in readiness and
an ample suftlciency of troops to man |
them are in reserve nearby, as it Is |
recognized that If the front line !
troops yielded under pressure of ter /,
rifle attacks they would be unable !,
quickly to occupy such intricate |
trenches to full advantage. Innumer- !
dote Il. tAe nioch houses iiaNe oeeh !
ouitt throughout the district al
rvduS LOT TWO hii'r"'iieuSeS easi'
IL 50 -si3l1a44
constructed mat the heaviest sleAi ile
can not damage them and so carefully !
hidden that no aeroplane would be |
BILE to discover them.
ooseT'ation foiht IN Tree
TWO observation points visited
FORMED interesting contrasts Inc nrst
was Sixty rect up Tree, reached py
a roogh wooden staircase punt round /
the tree ana giving a view Of the
country between plXmude ana Apres.
Inc other was a nigh point on me |
Duhes-tac1ng- A1elport- from -@hlch !
vigorous nomnardment OF LON oaeTt- /
zyde could watched. Only two IF |
US were allowed TO ascend each OBJ |
serVation point al a time as greater !
number might be seen by an aereplane
and signalied to the enemy's artillery
with the result that the two points, /
which have given efficient service .or
two months without discovery, would |
ne animated. Nhen the ieaNes fa'l
the FORMER post, that IN the tree, must
perforce be abandoned.
Mrs. Borden Turner of Chicago, I
has established hospital a. fsoH- /
brugge on the y ser, which Is a mir (
acle, for although not eight miles
from the actual nghting hnes ana
only receiving the severely wounded
who arrive within TWO hours after re- +
ceiVing their wounds. It's marked
haracteristic Is its cheerfnlness Its
specially built wooden wards are
~
Illness and freedom from oder give A (
cheering effect. II accommodates be-
tween 14t and lou men ihere We're
efghty-hVe patients there yesterday
although the seVefese cases are Sent
there TO he kept long enough To make
1t possible 10 send them on the two
day journey to more distant nos
pital. The mortality in TINS hospta' +
for the past few months has o@en
under eight per cent Mrs. fhrner
san that she takes no credit for ono
cure, that OF young IouaVe, VINO was
brought In. his hand gone and IN !
state of collapse from loss OF blood. I
The general commanding the dlsFlct /
made a special trip TO the hosnifa
late in the evening ana decorated the |
youth with the military mccall me /
effect was magical.
Allies Colonial Troops
ne atlitIt W Ai4d'oii ~ ''f'e7 an 7
bringing troops to England. said the
aide who accompanied us, mas at
tracted much attention, nut sirnilar
action by an Algerian Sheikh passed
almost unnoticed. |
We visited the encampment OF l.
500 native cavalry who accompanied
Agha TO hight for France. paying their
own expenses and bringing their own
horses. These volunteers are of Ali
ages. A man Of sixty was standing
next to a youth of seventeen. They
have passed the year with no shelter
but their native " tents, which are
merely strip of cloth on four sticks
yard high. Yet neither men nor
horses have suffered as result of
the climate. When the cavalry hal
any opportunity at all at the COM I
mencement of the war. they We're
most useful, two complete companies
out OF five being wiped out These
were Immediately replaced from AL
geria. They are unsuited to trench
work. having an Irrepressibie tenden-
Zee and cigarettes When the hrst