Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-03-14
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of his face shot away, with an eye,
an ear and the right cheek bone gone.
The doctors went to work and patched
him up. They placed plate in his
face for the cheek bone, and sewed
up his wounds.
AS he began to grow strong, how
ever, he lenged again for the front.
He used to tell me of this desire to
get back, saying that he was too hide
Gus looking an object to face the
world again. r
This one desire seemed to nredom-
mate in his mind, and after ne was
strong enough to sit up in bed he be-
gan exercising his arms and legs to
keep fit and strong FOR his return.
Am ready?' he would say each
day to the surgeon that tended him.
The young fellows wound healed, but
he was an awful looking object with
the scars. He told me one day of the
time he received his wounds, how he
had crawled all night to get some
where for, aid, crying all the time "A
moi, q moi-the French call for help
on the battlefield.
Asked For Mirror. s.ssE.
At daybreak he reached little
farmhouse, and the peasant folk came
cut to pick him up The first thing he
asked for as they reached him was q
mirror to look at his disfigurements. /"
Mrs. Rawak says that at length the
young fellow was strong enough to go
back. and that the look of him as he
stood in line erect and waiting for the
start. with huge black patch hiding
his scars, was one she will never for
get.
Touching scenes made by the break
ing of family ties were Witnessed by
Mrs. Rawak in Paris at the seminary
of Saint Sulpice, which was turned
over to the. use of Belgian and French
refugees. IT. -. (
Woman after woman saw there, .
she says, who had lost all trace OF
her loved ones. Most of the people
were old men and women, with many
small children also. -.
Il saw one woman caring for a
small child" she says, mot her own.
She did not even know the child's
name or to whom it belonged. She
had adopted it as bers to. fill the loss
of her own child. -. =.
Old Did Not COMPLAIN. ..-. ra.-l.s,
There was no complaining among
these old people. They took their
troubles as sacrifices which conditions
had required of them, and never did
hear anything save praise for King n
bert of Belgium. Many of those old
women would have dropped dowr to
die for him if the occasion arose.
I'm spite of these sufferiHgs Hnw-
ever" says Mrs. Rawak, ''the copemc,i
people of the warning countries do not
bear grudge against each other It
has been wonderful to watch them in
the first aid hospitals French and
German alike-trading chocolate bars,
cigarettes, candy, and bread
Il always carried large quantities
of cigarettes whenever / could, be-
cause the soldiers got so much COM
fort out of them. Sometimes when my
supply ran short, they would divide,
passing the cigarette down the line
pun by puff, and making it do a band
of several men. -s=
Men were mangled awfully at
first, because of the more open fight
ing and the terrible bayonet wounds
I cared for one man whose wound ran
from his shoulder almost to his knee.
Now tie wounds are less sexcre, or
else the man'is killed outright That
is one blessing OF the treneh warfare.
Sympathy With BeIgians.
II nursed men of all the countries
at war; says Mrs Rawak. and they
arc all a splendid band OF men. When