The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-03-25

tron came to my room and said that 6
telephone message from B.. place
some forty kfloneters away, reported
they were IN desperate need of an in
1erpreter. They had asked already
4hree other hospitals for a nurse who
spoke German, but none was available
and she wished me to be ready in hall
an hour to go there for the day. The
road was in pretty good condition and
clear OF sentries, so we reached B. By
O'Clock.
There had been only one thing of I'M
usual interest on the way. From tin:
top Of a hill a mile or so across the
valley we saw an ambulance train
creeping along. Flaming red crosses
covered the sides of the coaches. Be
fore orr amazed eyes, few moments
later; light puffs of smoke danced
around them Shells fell before and
Others behind the train, but still the
engine kept moving. Would it reach
the next station and get beyond range
we asked each other breathlessly, the
chauffeur and /. We followed it for
fully ten minutes, and then it, vanished
behind slope. It was like q cinema
tograph with its Inevitable train and
engine, but with the difference that the
train looked small and distant, while
the report of the guns was near and
very real We learned later that only
one shot had found its mark, but that
that one had killed three helpless men
as they lay.
When we arrived we met the head
surgeon He was a straight, upstand-
ing Englishman, and even under such
stress his uniform looked spick and
span, his boots polished, and he was
wearing glistening monocle. But
above all his clear eyes, looking direct
~ at you, gave an idea OF energy, vital
1ty and superiority.
was the station from which the
English ambulance trains went down
to Boulogne It seemed as If there
must be hundreds of ambulances al
ready there, as well as dozens upon
dozens Of ambulance ears. As fast as
one train was filed it pulled out, and
{ other cars we're pushed in to take their
places. There WAS such perfect method
and system that by midafternoon we
saw the last train slowly depart
The surgeon knew we had been or
dered to return by way Of the battle
front and bring with as a load Of
wounded, as there had been ia perfect
sha1nb1es the day previous. AS he babe
us goOdby and thanked us for helping
he asked me:
'Have you ever been on the field
after 8 battle7' r.
Ireplied in the negative. Shaking his
head sadly; he said:
1T IS too horrible to attempt to de-
scribe. and Z advise you to remain in
your am Dulance.
assured him II It were possible
Ehould
We took long time getting to the
erywhere. and we had to- pick out
roads that were sheltered from shell
Ere At last. when as near as we pos-
sibIy could get, the two men left the
car and myself IN a shelter behind
little I'LL among the trees. for I did as
the Enelishnan had advised remained
in the ambuIanee-that is, until the
medecin major needed q nurse for a
particular case and sent for me. Going
to him passed a battery OF 75s about
q hundred yards away. firing at inter
rails, and platoon of men standing
motionless, ready for orders. Ammu-
milton wagons drawn bv mules were
passing to and from the guns, while in
! fantry of all sorts was being hurried
ON their way to the lines
Fne French had captured some
trenches, and a counter attack was e1-
pected- Even tnen tfe IRE was SO
He7za " = Was NOT possible 70 move, put
uusA = esess7u so1ie soon
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several hundred cavaIrymen mounted
or standing by their horses. Threading
streteher bearers BRINGING in their pa
thetic burdens. The anbu1ances came
up one at time, were loaded and sent
on little distance to wait until all