The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1917-03-07

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TIE front Nv - au1onehlle =
up. - ~ poeho0 our ~ tneo
marching reglmenG ~ woro : 2
lot Of men, loaDed auUn M
knapsacks and their winter eQu1nuol
For the nights are bltteely 60 &
these passes. Yet they sang = -
passed them and seemed % chaay =
though they were going a q moun1nnn
lark. That Is, most Of them did. ~
some of them it was q hard str1eGlo
with no pleasure ahead.
The head of this column had NJ
reached the crest and left the roaa
For down the other side there vas -
need of following the long windineB
over which our automobile had to -
with brakes set. The soldiers scam-
pered freely down the bluffs, reachine
the bottom almost as quickly n ~
did. But again we had to climb long
and tedious hill on the other side BE-
fore we came to the valley in which
the war operations were now ON.
The Darker Side Of Marching.
A week later we made the same trim.
this time following General Won Falken-
hayn himself on an inspection trip Of
this front. And now it rained. The
gorgeous beauty of these wild noun
tain crags. the purple mists that yelled
the garish colorS Of the peaks, the fas-
cination and the splendOr of what
Americans call Indian summer were
gone. Everything had assumed, rs II
by magic. drab colors The misty rain
beat against us before an icy wind.
The steep roads became perilous with
slippery mud. There was no song from
the soldiers that We passed. DripplnK.
soaked. they plodded YEARLY and
Slowly. The horses of the baggage
trains seemed to feel the same way
about it. The automobile trucks floun-
dered in the mud and many had mar.
row escapes. 1t is no light task to
navigate one Of these giant cars on a
crooked. slippery mountain road.
On little shelves of the mountain side
were smoky bivouac fires trying hard
to burn. About them were drenched
soldiers trying to dry their soaked
and uniforms. Here and
there Mapped tiny dog tents into which
these soldiers would creep for the
night in the hope that tomorrow would
bring Il bit of sunshine.
Wounded Know No Hate.
Around turn in the road came a
Slowly moving. weary OK train. The
oxen seemed to mind the rain less than
the horses. 1t was the contents of the
wagons these oxen pulled slowly and
through the mud that
made our auto slow down as we passed
them. Each wagon contained n num-
Der of wounded lying in the straw.
Some of them We're covered with rub
Der blankets. All were trying feeblv
TO smile at us as they passed on this
1oltlng Journey over the mountains
from the battle lines to the hospitals
behind the front.
We found German and Roumanian
SIDE by side. Their eninity seemed to
have ended Wounded friend and
wounded foe had become brothers.
II WAS in this section that the Rou-
maflian> had attempted to Stop the
''"rlnan advance hy blowing up the
road ut three abrupt curves. They
had don" their work well. The explO-
>lonS tor" off the whole shelf on which
he road WAS carried But the Ger
man engineers had done their work
equally well. They hurriedly built up
wall at about the middle of the de-
'fr"Ned road, then dynamited away a
'ig chunk Of the overhanging noun
ain side This fell against their new
'huiinent. and in three hours the Ger
mans We're able to put artillery over
he new road.