The Detroit times., 1916-11-21

Of autopsJ II YOU know what that
Is
T. you DO not, shall not tell you
Nothing you ever read or dream
cd or saw depleted about hell was
circumstance to that place. And
yet every correspondent that has
worked at the front will tell you
That this sort OF thing goes on all
'hc time when there Is active
sitting as there is now At the
oomme
Or take that most wonderful en-
cicn'. useful and admirable OF all
our war charities. the American
ambulance Hospital az Neuilly, near
Paris ! warrant you that one AT
,einoon's stroll thru that great In.
stitution will We all the war you
win want for the rest uf your life.
Tits Is whore they take the desper.
IT. and hopeles cases and by the
sheer force OF \ matchless surgery
snatch them out OF The grip Of
death. Men with jaws shot away.
noses and eyes shot out. faces so
1crribly and grotesquely battered
hey look like hideous red carica.
'u-es OF human beings: more than
Zoo OF them there all the time.
Let me not dwell on the details.
on would not sleep this night on
= wish that IN some way you
could get hold OF the sense or
trm that you might know war as
il IL and late II and all things that
make II as they ought 70 be hated
The horrors OF night in the
.icnches. star bombs making the
region "a bright ar day. he earth
'rembllnE under the discharge OF
ne aerial torpedoes and other gi-
tul explosives, the incessant din so
seat thai have heard II 20 miles
away thn enemy creeping behind
ne shadows to the attack. bayonet
sitting. stabbing and clubbing
wli lie the 75's go "pom-pom pom.
nom. and the crack .crack crack"
~ the machine guns never lets up.
The horror OF standing there and
shifting while your friend AZ your
idc is annihlatcd, maybe, and you
1re covered with his warm blood
grc keep on.
The horror OF the gas cloud that
comes creeping slowly but inexora-
oly along, close 10 the earth, roll
ms. rolling. straight az you until
20 rolls down into your trenches.
md any man that breathes but
once OF II lives four days in agony
lrd prays for death.
The horror OF the red hospital
trains, bringing back the insane,
the men whose minds have given
way under all this complicated
nightmare OF horrors. The horrors
OF the other hospital trains that
nirht after night from the front
1f'ng back still more dreadful
freight, pieces OF men TO be patched
80 and put together again that
they may drag themselves miser.
ably thru some barren years. The
horrors of the white.faced silent
lhrongs ~ such place as Saint
Iazarre or the Care de l'Est.
Paris. waiting every night for the
coming of such trains.
The horror OF the lingering odors
u old battlefelds. where the earth
nss been soaked in blood and many
u, aps of slain or wounded men
have lain many hours IN the sun
IRE horr7Is OF literal streams Of
blood A man that was at Gallipoli
old me that after one day In which
they fought from sunrise to sunset.
the sea ali along the shore Was red
with tho blood that run into Il.
No wonder men 30 insane by
scores and hundreds Yet pile up
M tho horrors YOU would see in
week az he front. one on another,
and the whole terrible accumula.
ticn that seems mountain high
would be. ss matter OF fact.
nothing but a poor symbol ~ the
total horror that stretches and
proods oyer 1000 miles of battle