The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-03
FRANCE, BLED WHITE
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plled. cor my left eye hurts me so
that | can't see.
Funny thing about that wound
he continued. ut is over my right
eye. but it is my left eye that is IN
iurcd. could not see thing from
my left eye for three months. and
am just beginning TO get my sight
back now
He explained that a piece was taken
out of one oil his ribs 10 patch up the
hole in his FOREHEAD. and that be was
i've months in the hospital.
Just out" he said. Had two
weeks convalcsCence leave
Where are you going now
asked.
Back 10 the 'front.'" he answered.
We got up 10 Muulins, where we
stopped over night. The patronne OF
the little hotel was genial soul. She
talked 10 us all during dinner.
My husband is at the 'front.'" she
said, and | have the whole charge Of
the place on my hands. My brother.
in-law did help me. but they have
taken him now. His right leg is four
centimetres shorter than the other,
but they need meh and they took MIN,
just the same"
One boy | knew in the 1918 class,
which was recently called to the col
ors, has to wear plaster Of paris
corset. but they took him. knew
another man who had been refused
six times on account Of floating KID.
ney. They took him this spring.
Disabled Veterans Sent to Man Guns.
Another OF my FRIENDS was wounded
in the Champagne offensive in Sep
iember, 1O15. He had five pieces OF
shrapnel in his back. lie was oper-
aIed on five times, and they got out
three OF the pieces. but two OF them
remain. lying alongside his backbone
over the kidneys. He cannot carry
the pack. and so is not fiji for the in
fantry, but he has been sent back 10
the front In the automobile section OF
the anti-aircraft service.
I took a soldier out Of the hospital
at Epernay and sent him 10 the Ri
viera-to Antilles. He was operated
on there by my friend, The chief OF
the hospital, for condition which
the surgeon said might have caused
the soldiers death In FIVE minutes at
any time during the last two years.
Later An abscess developed IN his
right groin and there had to be an
other operation. The head OF the hos
pital wanted 10 send him 10 Paris In
the middle OF April for two weeks
convalescence. The military council
would not hear OF II.
"He Is needed at the front and he
has 10 90 back
The man came 10 Paris on his way
hack to the front. A second abscess
developed in his groin. and. waking
on two sticks, he went 10 Val dc
Grace 10 ask to be examined. The eI-
animation was refused, and he had
10 20 back 10 the front as he was.
III he gets in too bad condition
he will be sent to one OF the front
hospitals, but they need men and he
has to 20 back"
End Of the Reserves Already in Sight.
France is in sight Of the end Of her
reserves. She has to send TO the trout
every man able to stand on two feet.
The proof Of this ia the way they
have combed ont the embusues in the
Maison dc la Presse.
From n population Of fewer than
$4,000. 900 France has sent one In SIX
into the armies. The. 1917 class went
into the trenches In the middle OF last
year, 1916. They were in the nghting
at the somme AT the age Of nineteen.
Four regiments Of the famous 2oth
Corps, the most famous fighting corps
Of the French army. had one boy from
the 1917 class in every squad OF four
men. The 1917 class helped TO take
Maurepas.
Part OF the 1918 class Is In the
trenches to-day. And the 1918 class
produced fewer than $4,000 recruits
only A little more than 100000. IN.
Guiding crinples. tho 1918 class could
moi give 2""5, 0nn men
These are srccidc instances Of what