New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-24
British Captain,
Leg Off, Cheerful
Over Escapes
Bombed in Ambulance,
Hospital and Ship, He
Says on Arrival Here

AK ATLANTIC PORT, Dec. %
mind your head there, captain. lts
a low step. Let me have your crutches
and | think you'll manage better" with
this Injunction a steward on an Amerl-
can liner that came Unexpectedly INTO
mort tonight directed the disembarka-
tion of the first British army ottlcer 10
cor,a 70 these waters with a leg sew
cred at the hip.
There's chap worth writing about
remarked the steward to group OF re-
porters. who stood on the tender Wnich
brought the liners passengers ashore
"He's down on the passenger list as
nlain Mr.. Dubois, but he's fighter with
record"
CAPTAIN A. J. Dubois, Of the British
army. on his way home to Melbourne
on six months leave, remarked that the
etouard was unduly excited over MOTH
ing. fe,Iow
ro,, in England" he declared. ITS
all over now and | am resting comfort
ably. and | won't have WORD 10 say
- tho submarines don't appear IN the
Pacific after [ leave san ftanGlsco.
con,ohow the Boches tried TO bomb me
~ everv turn after they smashed my
loo with \ SO she'll of high explosive.
| got it in the Ypres sector on August
&. [ went into active service III Aplh'
1915. and was wounded -FOUR times.
Each time / was able to get ABOUT
within a few weeks and TO return 20
duty, but this last time they smashed
me up splendidly.
"The first she'll that came our way
on August s smashed one OF the Dig
eiobteen-inch mortars and killed sew
oral men. The next one hattened me.
a fragment of shell crushed my leg TO
hits. severing an artery in my righ'
wrist as we'll. / should have bled TO
death within twenty minutes had 1T not
heen for one of those Americans IN
iittie Ford ambulance who gave me
first aid. He hurried me to the near
est c. C. S. Casualty clearing station /,
and on the way fragment OF sheii
gtruck the ambulance.
"Then | fell into the hands OF an
A No. / American surgeon, whose name
/ am not permitted to tell. lie dld TWO
very proper things-poured me OUT
brandy and soda and later took on my
leg al the knee. was in the base nos
nitaI for sixteen days, when German
airplanes bombed the buildings. on
the way TO Dover bombs were dropped
near our vessel, and later. as was re-
covering from my second operation Tor
removal of the leg at the mp, LONDON
was bombed for four days and some
shells fell close TO where ! was lying.
"It looked as if the Boches were tol-
lowing me everywhere to complete tneir
lob. / shall return TO England IN may
and BIZ that time my patent leg VIII
perhaps be ready for me-. -
Another passenger on the same snip
was william T. Ellis, Of Swarthmore'
penn. writer on religious subjects, 'who
left Petrograd soon after the over
throw OF Kerensky. He said that no
Russians were permitted to leave tne
country and that foreigners had great
difculty in getting passports.
Colonel Willard Hunsiker, OF the
Pennsylvania National Guard and an
ofFicer of the United States Steel Cor
narration. said he had formed club IN
London for officers Of the United state
army and navy and that II was operat-
ing successfully at Chesterheid Gar
dens, Curzon Street.