New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-02

As | speak German, n enabled metz
enjoy myself with the German prison.
ers. The Allied and German soldi.u
arc rot enemies after battle, BEGAN,
we know that they would be glad "a
Law down their arms in a minute II tier
could.
In some cases the Germans have,
machine gun behind the front liz,
trench and the men are told that Il
thew surrender they will be moved
down by their own machine guns. Ger.
man Socialists do not want 70 fgkt
but arc forced 20 under penalty Of
death. I heard many Of the German
prisoners thank God after they wen
taken prisoner because they knew Their
troubles we're over. They may nave %
work hard, but they get their sleep in
safety and get plenty 20 eat. Tney are
kings as compared with the men in tie
trenches.
A German prisoner told NE ths.
they were not any more afraid Of n.
American soldiers than they were OF
bunch of schoolboys, but that th.y
we're afraid of the American money and.
food ! wonder what they will think o.
the American boys when we get abou.
a million of them ;here? Some o,
them might look like a lot OF school.
boys. but they look good 70 me, and |
believe that after they get hardened Up
and get to France they will max.
the Kaiser say, Colt i'm Himmel. vas
lst los ?" which means in English, God
IN heaven, what has happened?'
Wounded on Second Trip
On my second trip to the trenches
we made charge on the fourth day
over mo Mans Land to the German
trenches. but before we got half way
was hit in my right hand and shot four
inches above my right knee. ! dropped
my rife and fell to the ground three
other men dropped not far away from
me. One man next TO me was sho.
through the stomach and was all dou.
bled up. | could do nothing for him.
but I said, "Where we're you hit?' and
he said, II got it right in the bread
basket" He said, I'm lucky; I'm only
hit once"
The rest of the men were now in the
German trenches, fighting any way and
every way. After | dressed my RICH.
hand with my left one the best way
could | crawled over 70 the man who
was shot in the stomach. He had a
glanced shot along his stomach into mis-
left hip. He said: Let ME alone; I'm
all in" Then he lay fiat on the
ground, and as | could do nothing 70,
him with one hand | lay fiat on the
ground beside him. We expected a
bomb 70 drop almost any minute and
send US to st. Peters for rollcall.
We had thirty-four men wounded and
eleven killed; some had their legs shot
off, some their arms, some part of their
face, so | considered myself lucky with
only a broken hand and flesh wound
hours after the charge, but II seemed
like six months. Then the stretcher
carriers came along and gave Us drink
of rum and carried Us down 10 the
communication trench at the first aid
post. Ny wounds were dressed prop
erly; then | was put in an ambulance
and sent to the base hospital.
After being in the hospital for two
months the doctors thought it best to
send me back TO Blighty on account OF
my broken hand, rheumatism and fla,
feet. but the wound on my leg was only
q flesh wound and had healed up nicely.
have found all the Red Cross nurses
in Europe perfect ladies, and they could
not do enough for the soldiers In fact,
many of the boys get so attached TO
the nurses that they hate 20 leave the
hospitals. and | believe the nurses hate
to see them go.
1t costs the Allied governments from
$500 10 $4,000 TO kill or wound a
soldier.
1t may sound heartleSS and inhuman,
but il is fact. nevertheless, that from
a military standpoint il is far better 70
be killed than wounded. IL was the
same in the Philippines and in China
in 1900 II a man is killed he IS buried
back Of the trenches and the response
bility of the government ceases, but II
q man is wounded II takes two men TO
carry him through the hiring line and
the wounded man makes three. Inen
it takes a man and d nurse TO take him
in an ambulance 10 the base hospital:
il takes from three 10 four people again
At the hospital when he - operated
upon: then later he is sent TO the casu-
atty clearing station, where number
Of doctors are kept busy; then 70 the
ship; then 10 the hospital again AZ
home for six or eight weeks.