South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-04-16
WOUNDED NURSED
AMID LUXURIES
Of OLD MANSION
Home of Lady Malcolm Con-
verted Into Hospital for
CanadianS-Injured Tell of
Bloody Action.


Their nursing home is officially called !
the Canadian Military hospital. IN
nOR-war days il is BeachDOrougn
Park, Shorncliffe the home of Lady
Malcolm typical, solid faced, white
turreted English mansion, tucked cos
Iy under the lea side of the cliffs
that fringe the English channel
Every available room III the house
has been converted into ward ola /
masterpieces OF Dutch and British
painters hang on the walls and broad
staircase: the luxurious hall with its
old fashioned fireplace, has become a |
sort of rest room for nurses VINO
snatch a few minutes off duty; ten /
mis- court is being laid out in front or
the house for the use OF patients IN |
the coming months; on the huge lawn
10 the left is 10 be erected an extern
sion of the hospital. And on the first
floor an apartment has been turned
into an operating room.
Under the glare OF the x-rays prac-
tically every man has been probed FOR
German bullets and shrapnel which
had not been removed at the base
hospitals in France. Major Jackson
died here though his name has not
vet figured in the casualty list jack
son died, not from wounds. but from
appendicitis which he contracted IN
the trenches.
Practically every Canadian regiment
is represented in the hOspital-the
Princess Patricia, Winnipeg Rifles,
Engineers, Sappers. all who came with
the first contingent-and some of them
will yet be months on the sick list.
Men Display Bravery.
Corporal Charles Smith of the Goth
Winnipegs owes a shattered arm to a
German sniper who winged him at
70 yards range two days before the
advance was made along the Armen-
there's road. smith was In the reserve
trenches which lay opposite wood
between Amentieres and Ypres, in
which the Germans had entrenched.
They were well screened by brush
wood and trees. Coming out of his
dUgOut the corporal was making IN
quiries about his platoon's dinner
when PUNK came a smack on the
left arm that sent him staggering
They ripped his sleeve off and
found a hole several inches long. AS
il was being bound up Smith col
lapsed but the stretCher party had
not carried him of when crack went
a rifle 20 yards off, and Smith opened
his eyes to see the helmeted figure of
the sniper pitch from the tree. Good
boys" murmured Smith. He woke up
In the hospital.
Two days later Sir John French
asked the Canadians 10 GEAR the
wood. The Princess Pats were there,
and the whole line Jrembled with
eagerness for the order to charge.
Gee" said one Canadian who now
nurses a wounded leg. cit was some
charge. The maple leaf was there
YOU bet your lifew They swept the
wood clear. came out at the other side
and had to be called back before they
realized that the Germans who
weren't fighting were lying in heaps.
and that those that weren't lying down
were surrenderins in patches. Sir
John French complimented them Tor
that
The Growing Exploit.
But the browning exploit was the
attack on Neuve Chapelle. LaBassee,
the German Gibraltar, is but four
miles from Neuve Chapelle, and La
Bassee has been the ''bete noir' of the
allies for months.
THE fight for LaBassee." explain
ed one of the officers in the hospital,
will be the bloOdiest work of the
campaign. IL will be red hell in that
town one night. We cant shell it,
for there are still about 5000 non
cOmbatants huddled there. 1t must
be taken with the bayOnet. and it
must be taken before long. The Ca
nadians are working with the Eng
lish TOmmies on that section. and we
are content TO push the Germans back
100 even so yards at a time.
Then one night we will be near
enough for the rush. IL will be cruel
work. All bayOnet That is the
meaning of the recent attack on
Neuve Chapelle. It lies at the juno
ton of the roads from Ia Bassee to
Estaires and Armenueres. French
wants to get a BaSsee as easy as pos
sible. That's why he gave the Ger
mans such terrific Smelling at Neuve
Chapelle. He wanted 10 demoralize
them. ] guess he did It. 1t may
help 10 loosen their hold on La Bias
see"
The army headquarters have found
that the Canadians in the field work
50 well with the British regiments that
= has been decided 20 include drafts
OF Dominion men among the home
battaliOns at important points in the
fighting line-and the Neuve Chapelle
battle has born out the wisdom OF
this Arrangement.
Old Type Battlefield.
few OF those who helped in the
attack have arrived at BeachbOrough
Park. They say il was the most ex-
hilarating hour they ever spent The
devastating effect of the accurate
shell fire which preceded the attack
had struck terror into the Germans
left in the trenches. In some places
there were no German trenches. IL
was just a frightful mixture OF dead.
diving and wounded most of whom
were half buried by the fallen earth
Helmets, forage caps. guns, boots,
cartridge belts. overcOats. ammunition
lay scattered over the ground. dis
CardeG IN the flight. As the Cana
dams swept over the fallen many
raised themselves from the ground
and called their willingness to surren-
der. II was the first real battlefield
or the old type that has been seen for
many months in France.
And late that night. after the Bots
du Bies had been taken by bayOnet TO
the shouts or Canada Forever" an
imprumptu concert-in which the
wounded Joined with exaltation.
SEW IT SEEMS
When does a man become a seams
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