Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-11-05


manity
My dear Elliot: | am going to tell
you a little of our work here IN
France.
In the first place we are regular
army division ambulance corps. fol-
lowing our division wherever II goes
and doing our work in connection
with the fighting work of the division
carrying its wounded from the field
stations back to the hospitals. When
our division goes up to the front limo
trenches we follow with the bran
cardiers", viz. stretChcr bearers. We
have no connection with the Ameri-
can ambulance at Neuily, who are
doing good work, but not exactly tho
same kind as we are doing, as | dOnt
think many of them are regularly at
tached to any division We are under
the American Red Cross, but subject
to the orders of the French govern
ment. Richard Norton is our chief
and has been in command since the
beginning of the war.
He has gained with his ambulance
section so-called, Il splendid dis
tinction, and ! found in Paris that the
French authorities treated me in quite
a different manner when ] said | was
joining "Norton's section. The
French line officers all know us anG
are extremely mpanionable fellows.
too.
You know modern large calibe-
guns enable the Bosche to make 1t ex
tremely uncomfortable for many Kill
ometers behind the fighting lines by
shelling the roads and villages. Even
here once in a while n shell goes over
our camp, but II isn't all on one side
by long way. FritZie often goes
hungry when the French make his
roads impossible.
All u Chance.
In hot sectors we do all our work
at night without lights and at n fair
risk. It's all chance. anyway. IL the
Bosche land shell in the dark on
general theory that something ought
to be on that road at that spot at that
| time and you are there, you get II.
That's all. But there are lots of roads
and they are long. Some crossroads
get special attention right along and
! that brings me to tell you of an in
cident that happened the other night
Before this war we used to think
of tho Frenchmen as race that did n
| lot Of talking II an accident happened
and very little else. The Anglo-Saxon
was the man who in sudden emer-
I
Strengthening things out-all is
changed now. The war has brought
out the patient qualities of the
French that make them the equal, II
not superior, of the Anglo-Saxon.
A few nights ago the section had
bcen ordered to n point out beyond
n certain now very famous town TO
within about three kilometers of the
first lines. and they went in convoy,
with our chief leading. as he always
does. Clouds of dust and the flashes
OF cannon to show the roads. Tho jot
! finished. We Were coming back whom
we approached Il noted bad corner
where orders had been long before
issued TO us--"If anything happens
there. ditch the machine and go on"
Just then we heard II particularly
nasty old Bosche whistler 20 over
and saw him light on the road among
the trees Just where the road bent to
the left. A few moments lator wo
arrived on tho spot.
Smcllcd tho Blood.
An artillery caissOn partly blocked
the road, and three poor horses down.
pools OF blood and the gurgllng gasps
OF the dying brutes. Three men OF
the gun team had already dragged