The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1915-01-08
Wounded Respond to Cry Of Raw
ing COmrade. :
Correspondent Pens Vivid Description
Of the Horrors Of Waffle IN
the Trenches . Continuous
Nervous Tension.
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correspondent Of Chicago Daily Nowa.l
Amiens, France.-There are four
81 "a In She quiet garden smoking our
,ipes. What Is TIA French attack,
Sr q Germang Somewhere around
lhnulnes. 30 kilometers away. tho
cannon are laundering f%uriously. A
lullen. uninterrupted growing passes
over Amiens. Now and then we can
distinguish the more powerful shots
d the big guns, some of which we
saw passing through here. In any
sase. things are warming up out there.
All day the battle will continue. and
We shall sufer the anguish Of not
tnowing what Is happening. Are the
}ermans piercing the French lines?
Ace the French piercing the German?
All around Amlens Il has been thus
or a month. The same villages have
been fought for, the same positions
taken and retaken. III some places
tho unburied bodies OF men and ami.
mals are so numerous that French
and Germans alike have withdrawn
from these shambles. which war has
made accursed aud u~ninhabitable.
This 10 the case. for example. at
Roye, a little town Of three to four
thousand inhabitants. OF which the
official statements have spoken often.
20 find and remove the dead one has
TO search the cellars. so down into
wells and explore crumbiing ruins OF
masonry. A rough Partisan fireman.
a brave veteran OF many fires. told me
that he would rather risk his life
every day In a burning building than
pursue this new trade to Which he
has been assigned. The men engaged
IN Il are unable to continue more than
two days at a time-no human being
could stand It longer.
But II Il Is hard for trained FIRE
men. Imagine the sensations OF this
old rural notary public. calm and
peaceful, who went to visit the ruins
81 his house In ALERT, descended into
the cellar and there in The darkness
ran against a body which swung to
and fro. II had been there IL days.
lie had to take II down and bury Il
himself. II was the body of one of
the inhabitants who had l,lled him
self during the b~ombardment. evident
iy from terror.
The number OF suicides In the
northern provinces Is countless. The
newspapers may say nothing about
them, but the people know. and here
10 the peaceful garden my com
panions continue to converse OF these
sTuesome undercurrents Of the war.
Such horrible details could never
have been imagined. II 10 not the
dead who suffer, but the llving-the
men. Tor instance. who come back
from their stay In the trenches with
fevers and diseases. There are sew
erai here In the hospital who have
been delirious fer days. Last night In
The long white room where the flames
Of watchlights fickered feebIy a
wounded sergeant suddenly rose from
bis cot.
On guard On guard" he cried.
IT'S warming up over there! Fix
hayonets. boyBl"
Under the impulsion of the familiar
words OF command halt deiirious men
sii over the room staggered to their
feet and rushed among the cots in
ihelr nightshirts. stumblin. and
shouting. The attendant who told
me- this still a visibly affected by
che scene. He had had the happy in
SEPARATION 10 command:
Halt! Rest armsl"
Aud the mad brigade had obedi-