New-York tribune., 1916-07-23
gv ARTHUR II. GLEASON.

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Itch IN the main street Downs spent 'hs
ri,,bt on tho rond. where he had dropped ou.
,yi,b a broken transmission. hre causea
hy tho heating apparatus broke out IN W.
/ Townsend's car II famed out suddehiy, anD
:, ,a. too lats 10 save even his personal De-
There are all kinds OF interludes IN tne
n.orL Uere isa Christmas note: "DecemDei
Ok The section had its Christmas dinner .,
o'clock. Kenyon plays the violin very weii
and Day and Downs are at nome WIN Wy
80 Toosts were drunk III the way from
TThoodorc Roosevelt 20 The Folks at home
Af,er dinner impromptu theatricals, frahk''n
and Whites dance taking the cake.
A driver writes: ,.a
mo, narrow roads, with The ditches chokeo
with troops and ammunition wagons horse'
~aar;ro at shells. no light but the illuminat
INC star-shells, the little cars squee]eu
aCar wanted for Poste de Secours NO l.
900 Yards from trenches, eight khonetreo
from our post. The car rocks from smell holes'
/ Watch for the round black spots
A List Of Honor
uora ora tho names Of some Of the drivers
Harold lar, Kingsland. % Avenue Bots de Bou-
p
logne, Paris. a.,
Roland stebbins, Wlliamstown, Mass.
/ oscar Iasiei. 46 Gorham Avenue, Brookline'
Mass. 80 r.. r,;r,v-
fourth Street, New York.
Edward B. Hayden, Watertown' Mass
/ George Rockwell, 80 First Avenue "a'ef
bury, Conn. s,r...
New York.
Edward D. Townsend, 12s East Thirty
fourth Street, New York
F G. B. Campbell, 3S Wall Street. Ne"
York. c..
Boston. .ao.,
Henry sydnor Harrison, author Of "Queed''
drove one of the cars.
Tbrouoh all the records one feels the heart
ening sense of the good will of the people Tor
whom the work is done.
"All day long, wherever we nave stopped
people have come out and offered US mowers
nna fr,,its and food and friendly greetings,
uerv much as our ancestors Of 15o years ago
must have offered them to the compatriots OF
Lafayette"
At Elverdinghe. while was putting on my
sboes the window fell in and part Of the cell
ing came along"
General Putt, commanding the De'aehine"'
d'Armee de Belgique, states:
AIN snite of the compartment OF Elver-
dinghe. of the roads leading to THIS village
and Of the ambulance itself, this evacuation
has been effected night and day without IN
torruption. cannot too highly praise the
courage and devotion shown by the personnel
OF the section" -, 90 .n
A driver SAYS: From a. m, April ~, un-
ri 1880 o. m, April 26, five cars on duty. IA
those four days each man got seven hours
sleep, sitting at the wheel, or an nour Oh
hospital bed ,.;u
for 6fteen minutes. smoking furiously and
tho ENGLISH nurse singing. Little Khaki the
SQUADS pet dog, lay shaking.
The Dunkrk Bombardment
Five days of continuous heavy work ex-
tausted them and half the corps was sent 70
Dunkirk zen repos" On the day OF their
arrival shells came in from a distance OF
twenty-one miles, twenty shells at intervals
of half an hour. They took minute and
half to arrive The French outposts at the
German lines telephoned that one was on us
way. and the sirens of Dunkirk, twenty-one
miles away, blew a warning This gave the
/ inhabitants a
their cellars. The American ambulances were
tho only cars left in the town. On the sound
of the siren the boys headed for the Grand
Place. and as soon as they saw the cloud OF
dust they drove into ii.
AS one of them describes it:
1--WE spent the next two hours cruising
slowly about the streets waiting for the next
: shells to come and then going to see IL any
one had been hit. had three dead and ten
terribly wounded soldiers, civilians, women.
The next day | was glad TO be of for the
quiet front, where things happen in the open
ard women and children are not murdered.
Seven shells fell within radius Of 200
yards of the cars, with pieces of brick and
hot splinters."
A French official said Of the Dunkirk bonn
bardment:
~ was at most of the scenes but always
'Touchez le Main"
A Moroccan lay grievously wounded in a
Dunkirk hospital One of our boys sat down
beside the cot.
"Touchez lie main" said the wounded man,
feebly. He was lonely
The boy stayed with him for time There
was nothing to say. The man was too far
spent to talk, but every little while he said:
"Touchez le main"
/ Through the darkness of his pain he knew
that he had companion there. The young
/ foreigner at his side was a friend, and cared
that he suffered. 1t is difficult TO put in pub
/ lie print what one comes to know about these
young men of ours But they are giving
something besides efficient driving | have
seen men like Bob Toms at work, and know
that every jolt of the road hurts them be-
cause it hurts their wounded soldier.
! These young men from our colleges and
farms and professions are willing to lose
sleep and food in order to save men from
pain. They are taking some of the daily risks
Of soldiers without recompense. The soldiers,
with the clear French intelligence, under
stand this, and, with the responsive French
heart, value it. One of our drivers tells Of
middle-aged sentry
Pass along, my children, and good luck"
he said, you are more devoted than we"