The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19
PARIS GETS 5000
 WOUNDED PER DAY This Is Minimum-MOre When Fighting Is Fierce Al, ,O00 IN FOUR DAYS This Was During Champagne Battle. Twenty-Six Trains a Day at La
 Chapitre Station-TwO Hours
 to Handle Trainload
41,OOO IN FOUR DAYS

Paris, October 20.-(Correspondence of The Associated Press. .)-Long trains of wounded keep rolling into the La Chapi- tre station of the Care du Nord; train after train, even after the fiercest fight ing Of Champagne has occurred, for the ebb and flow Of the struggle keeps going on with it's steady yield of maimed and stricken soldiers. The government gave the correspondent facilities the other day to see this procession of incoming trains and the methods employed for promptly handling this enormous daily thrush of human freght reiquiring the most imme diate and delcate attenton.
 La Chaptre is the station in the most northeastern section of Paris, nearest the fighting line 65 miles away, and is the natural point for these trains from the front to empty into Paris Here the trains of wounded averaged 26 a day, with 200 to 300 wounded on each train, even after the Hull in the fighting, or from 5200 to 1900 wounded to be cared for daily When the fighting was fiercest these fig ures were far exceeded, and one of the officers stated 41,000 wounded had been received in four days, and added the re- markable fact that only two out of the 41,000 had died in transit.
 Fast and Systematic Work
 The platforms to which these trains of wounded roll up are all thoroughly or ganiZed for fast and systematic work Near at hand is a huge kitchen, which can furnish 4000 meals on short notice, so that the wounded may immediately receive hot tea and sustenance. There are many cooks, and scores' of nurses ready to carry dozens of meals packed in wicker baskets. Twelve surgeons are on duty to give first aid in a pressing case, though this station is not for treat ment of the wounded; it is merely to re- ceive and distribute them to the hospitals in Paris or in central southern France.
 train of wounded from the front had just come in as the inspecting party ar rived under government escort. Some 50 ambulances were drawn up on the plat form ready to receive the wounded men, and already the ambulances were well filed and moving off to the various hos pitfalls. Each ambulance received six, two tiers of three, the filters sliding on grooves into their places in the ambu- lances. Only a roll of yellow blanket ap- peared on the stretchers, with here and there face, but usually the heads were covered, seeking complete quiet There was no complaint; no groans. Everything moved along swiftly and with absolute precision, and not long after the men came from the trains they were on their way to the hospitals
 Special Attention in Some Cases
 occasionally some case needed special attention. One red-bearded peasant sol dier, well along in years, was ashen pale as he was rolled by in an invalid chair to receive the care of surgeons. Another young soldier was laughing as his chair rolled by to assure the visitors that his wound was slight. Most of the men, the doctors said, were only slightly wounded, and there were not the narrowing scenes as when traips bearing the desperately wounded empty into La Chapele.
 While the men were being carried from the train and placed in the ambulances, a constant checking process was going on among an army of military clerks, keeping an accurate register of each man, his wound, which hospital was best suit ed to his needs, whether his condition permitted further travel to the hospitals in the interior of France, as there is need to avoid congestioni in these Paris hos pitals. The registers were made up with the exactness of a bank.
 ''We find that two hours suffices to dis pose of the most difficult train load of wounded said the officer as the last ambulance moved away