The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-02
CARRIES MEN
FORWARD In
GREAT BATTLES
So Declares French Baron,
Visitor in Fargo, Long
Time at the Front

MEN are blown TO atoms. some
fall in front Of you on their faces,
they claw into the shelled ground
with their nails. but in spite of that
you are carried away by the intoxf-
cation of the attack. AS you move
along you become drunk. Then one
thought upsets you. That something
that mysterious something-sends
you on. You have but one desire
and that is to get into the enemy
line and begin TO kill and destroy.
BY the time that you have reached
the trench, you are SO worked that
you fear neither God nor man."
These were the words that Baron
Fl. s.. de Malaussene, adjutant gen.
eral Of the French army, twice
wounded and holder of the war
cross, La Croix de Guerre. for BRAY
cry used this morning in telling to
q representative of The Forum, tense
moments in the charges made by the
French against the Germans. Ad-
jutant de MaIaussene saw eighteen
months of actual field service and
returned to Canada in December of
last year, discharged. His wife is an
American girl, now living with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. II. Hertch,
of Portal, N. d. Mr.. Hertch is in
the lumber business at that point.
The adjutant came to Fargo Sunday.
He may deliver q lecture here under
the auspices of the Red Cross.
Tempus Of Fire.
THE charges are magnificent from
the viewpoint of the sacrifices that
the men make" said the baron this
afternoon. They make their charges
under a tempus of fire, iron and
smoke. Men have to go through mil
lions of bullets, liquid fire and all
kinds of gases. But in spite of all
these things they seem to be possess
ed by an irresistible force - that
mighty mysterious something-which
sends them on"
Adjutant de MaIaussense said that
when the men get ready to make the
charge, they line up at the foot of
the ladders which are in dug-outs
probably from 80 to so feet deep.
They wait for the command For
ward" AS soon as that is given, the
men take up the yells. They jump
on the tops of the parapets and run
toward the enemy on the skirmish
lime formation. Then the artillery
range shells. Once into the German
trenches, time does not permit the
loading of the guns. Man there faces
man. Between the two are bayonets.
Was Wounded Twice.
Baron de, Mallaussen was wounded
twice from bullets, the first wound
received being on the right side of
the neck and the other in the right
foot. He was in a hospital four
months from the first wound receiv-
ed on Feb. 8, 1915, in the battle Of
F'riese. On May Q, 1915, he took part
in another battle and was wounded
for the second time. Each time he
was taken to temporary hospital No.
20 at Quimper, Finistere.
Three Different Hospitals.
There are three different hospi-
tails on the front" said the baron.
THE first aid hospitals are temper
arily placed a mile from the firing
line. Army surgeons are in charge.
The ambulance men are regular
soldiers. When the wounded soldiers
are brought from the battlefield they
are taken to this first aid base and
there they are bandaged and taken
to the second place, called the clear
ing station. This may be 10 or Is
miles behind the firing line and there
your wound is classified. The
wounded soldier is then put in a Red
Cross train and is sent to a hospi-
tai in a city behind the military zone.
This hospital is either military or
private. Here the Red Cross nurses
work; also the civilian and army
doctors. Some men never reach these
hospitals.
"of this latter kind of hospital, the