The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-10-24

move on the road at night now as the
harvest Is in full sway and the peas
ants with their oxen and bullocks
pulling their heavy solid wheeled
carts, fiIl the roads. They go into the
fields and work all night within a
couple Of kilometers Of the lines
seemingly paying no attention 10 the
few shells that occasionally drop
around. They seem TO have imbibed
the stolidity of the oxen they drive.
One has TO lean his Henry against
the sides of the beast and give the
motor a little juice before they will
edge over. It's getting rather chilly
and my lantern is threatening to
blow out. No Finger longer twilight
here It's either daylight or night q.
Long Vigil at Front.
Writing from near NJ Aug.
IL, 1917, Tenney says that he was on
duty "a hours the day previous and
had a pretty good day.
Il was on the car which stays out
at the Big Rock writes Tenney.
THE Bulgars hold the hill on both
sides so one can't make any noise or
use lights. The moon was up and
made the star lights that were going
up over dead mans land look more
ghostly. II was rather quiet for
the Francois hospital.
THE wounded are brought from
five kilometers (about three miles)
on each side of the posts Temporary
field hospital or dressing room by
mules. II able they sit up in a wick
er frame as attached one on each side
of the mules. It's bad news If one
man happens to be u heavyweight
and the other small. The 'couches'
are carried in q similar manner only
with a different frame work which
permits lying down. IL they are
Greeks, we take them to Greek hos
pital, while if French or Italian they
go to the French hospital.
Il got a few hours sleep behind a
, wall back of the hospitals from $3.50
| to Z o'clock a. m. Gone of the fell
flows fell asleep while on duty at the
Big Rock before we got there, and
woke up about o'clock. at daylight,
| hearing the bullets from a mittrail-
| leuse, Cmachine gum kick and crack
around him. They say he made a
record trip TO NJ, but was sent
| back to Paris, of course. When
awoke it was too late for the army
/ petit deieuner' consisting of bread
and strong coffee, so strolled down
| town to see what l could get. One OF
the peculiar things about these Serbs
is their belief in 'Fatalism'. About
half Of them are Moslems so that half
have stayed in the city (once $4,000
pOpulation) in spite Of the daily bonn
bardments.
Well, / found a glass of warm
milk and some hard tack and then
after much hunting and talking the
free language. found a place 10
buy a bowl of 'yogurt'. This is the
real stuff. Remember the little
| tablets you used to use. a a 'clabber
rising from goats milk that has GER
tain bacteria in it? With sugar or
! something sweet to go with it, it is
| the best sort of dessert food VIC get
| 1t is very good without sugar, and
| finished the bowl easily.
Awakened BY Screaming.
| Thought I'd take little siesta then
and craWled under the car, the only
shady spot and was soon asleep. a
rough awakening was accomplished
| by the Boche sending over a few OF
their 1905. | started to time them
with my old Ingersoll and found that
they were dropping in about ever
! three and a half minutes dow
toward the Serbian Major-etat But
that grew tiresOme and l was just
going to try and get another halt
! hour of sleep when with a heavy
| crash, as it went through the all
over the car and bling! as 1t hit the
| side of the hospital, the shell came
ct seemed from the dust that il
raised as If the whole size had been
! blown in. Believe me. ] wasn't the
! last one to reach the 'abris' and any
| of us could hang Grape on Ty Cobb
/ for sliding bases the way We went
| down that hole. They gave us about
| twenty more shells and called 1t a
days work. So with a couple of 30
| kil0meter runs TO the base hospital
We finished our "a hours Of duty.
CITY Almost Destroyed.
This internally hot sun and the
white dusty roads play the deuce
with ones eyes. And to make mat
ters worse, ! lost my last pair OF
glasses the other night. ! shall try
! to get my eyes fitted here, but with
/ Little success. ] fear, as SalOnique was
almost totally destroyed by fire and
that's the only place around.
Don't tell me we are not out of
luck. What do you think OF this?
The section cut of from its allowance
Of bread because of q big fire in
Salonique burning up a lot of mill
tary stores. Now we must eat bis
NAlL lhlAAAdtlNs II OuRnL W BE GbtlGl
| 'shrapnel militaire' for it surely
would do much damage, If shot from
a gun.
The "5is Push. ......
Well, have spent the last six
days i'm the Alpine hospital at H.
a touch of malaria from this hot SIN
and cold nights. | was real proud of
my temperature chart as it really
had quite a range, but aside from
that life was monotonous. All this
| bunk about pretty nurses and their
soft fingered ways, | refuse to fall
for. All / had was a big bearded
'brancardier' (stretcher bearer). T.
| finally got our lieutenant to let me
out, showing him that we had better
conditions I'm our tent.
The big push is going to start
here tout de suite (soon) and think
l shall be all right to roll again
then.