The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-06-22
GERMANS FIRE on RED
CROSS TEXAN SAYS

swhpra In France. Win an ahAu"s"A
earns who would have been eradu'
ated from the University of Texas
This yea in a letter just received os
,ohn L. Hunter OF the state depart
men, OF the Young Mems Christian
Association. describes scenes thai
have come under his observation
since he went to the front last Jan
uary.
The letter follows.
we left Paris on April II TO form
d new section of the ambulance
corps. Two days later We arrived GU
here on the front of this little vii
lage. around which there has been
some OF the most terrific fighting OF
the war. You would recognize the
name Immediately IL | we're only al
lowed TO tell you. Like all the otfer
villages on the front. II 10 shell
shattered-the only tenabic houses
being those that we occupy.
although our section Is a brand.
new one, il was stationed In a very
dangerous sector--a sector In which
the ambulance corps has had two
men killed and one wounded and
~numberless automobiles lost. Strange
to say, too. Germans to have
prepared a reception for US Thirty
minutes after arriving three cars
we're sem out or duty, and as they
we're climbing a hill the Boehes Ger
mansl decided to accelerate their
pace q bit. The first shell they fired
hit thirty feet from the leading car,
The car was rfddied with fragments
and one big 'eclat' went through the
drivers big sheepskin coat and out
through the back of the seat. Real
~. ii was incredible, and II there had
not been two other fellows on the
front seal with him nobody would
have believed the story. II was the
most miraculous escape that has ever
happened Generally when shells
come that close they take their toll.
Several other shells anne near,
but none sc hear as that one. Two
others Of our cars have been fired OH,
and in both eases they were the only
vehicles on the road so there was no
doubt the Germans were deliberate
" firing ON the Red Cross.
eOn this same road there are two
abandoned French ambulanees that
wrecked By shells aud their
drivers killed, l viii never forget
the first tifae #ent up that road. ]
may make trips that will he worse.
but rome OF them will impress me
more than this first one did. The
night was the blacklist / ever saw and
rain was coming down. 0niy rock
cts lighted up the road, and they ex-
posed you to the Boehes. But they
we're welcome even at that. | dread
ed the road most. Such a road, 1t
filled with shell holes. travelled
by vehicles and pack animals and
covered with pieces of timber, /
could scarcely see ten feet ahead and
when something showed up / jerked
so far 10 the right that / nearly ran
into the ditch. Twice / got stuck,
and why 1t was not a dozen times /
do not know.
when the rockets burst they gave
d greenish, CHASTITY glare that showed
the most awful destruction / have
ever seen. Wrecked wagons were
piled high on either side and trees
With their limbs shot away stood
like great specte4s. When / reached
the 'poste de s%ecours' not a human
being was in sight-nothing but
smashed houses and walls with holes
through them, The 'poste' was a
mite hole in the ground-that was
all.
Il didn't start back until morning
and when l did it was light enough
20 see the road l was glad. because
| would have hated to have giver
the wounded soldiers the trip | hat
the night before.
Il want 10 thank you and Others
who helped me TO get over here tC
do what little / can for noble France
They are certainly worthy OF all sup
port they get. They are the ~eleanes
ana braTeat people ! ever saw"
iot Nc GIRLS STEAL;