The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-10-26
Capt. Taylor Praises Work
of Americans at Cha
teau Thierry
ARTILLERY RANGE
WAS POINT BLANK
Boys Of Goth Division Fight Because
They Love Excitement and Go In
Yelling Like Indians-Writes from
Truck by Roadside

Yelling Like Indians-Writes from
Truck by Roadside.
Capt. Herbert W Taylor of Brattc-
boro commander Of the ambulance com
panies of the l0lst sanitary train. 10Th
division. in France. has written an es-
pccally interesting letter to Maj. Linn
-. Taylor of Brattlcboro. The ma ior
part OF the letter, dated Sept. 10, fol-
lows:
My dear Major
! have Just received your most vel
come letter written July 20, and if YOU
will agree 10 pardon all mistakes in
spelling and grammatical construction [
viii try and send YOU an early reply.
for | must admit that such letter JUS
titles a reply at the earliest possible mo-
mcut Ii came TO me under rather pc
culjar circumstances and this reply is
being formulated and written under the
same Kind Of circumstances. How in the
world it ever came to be delivered to
me up here is more then | can ten for
we have had no mail in days and days
and Just now mail is a matter of no im'
portancc at all and no attempt is be-
ing made either TO deliver or collect il
for mailing
Nou viii understand all this when
tell YOU that | am tipping YOU this let
ter from the tail end of truck stand
ing beside the road along with other
trucks carrying my entire outfit of mcu
and material. We are within sight OF
the retrcatiug Huns and as | write
can see our own men following up YES
gallapmg mp H. more to the point aut
| ii look, Is If more prisoners would 20
! pouring down the road before darkues.
tonight. They have been coming down
| IN pretty steady stream for the pass
two DAYS and it is not yet ended. Nc~
! / am right here awaiting orders and nj
any minute | suppose ] am liable to re-
cciyc orders to move in and establish
As You probably know. was takcr
oil from ambulance work some littl,
4 time ago and now they seem TO be us
/ ing me a. sort Of a corrective" for ont
| fits that need sprucing up. First it wa.
! the artillery and now it is field hos
pital. However. am still a command
ing officer 80 | should worry. / have :
large personnel fifteen officers and opcr
ate the farthest forward in order to tri
/ age the wounded This means nothin!
more or less than the proper sorting %
wounded and forwarding them To thci
proper Cyacuating points. In the oil,
/ type of warfare il was supposed To b
done by he ambulance company dressin,
stations. but that don't work in thi
game over here for their personnel i
not nearly large enough and they hav
T=sst L
the same with nearly all the old schemes
They don't work ont in actual prac
fec and - we have in great mau
instances adopted new measures alon
these lines. NV outfit will for iusjaac,
90 forward 10 what is known aa tn
supporting line, or at most the rcscrv
lines and there establish a stat on. Thi
must be done according 20 order and j
the exact time allowed as the stream @
wounded il diverted 90 that point a
Just such time. and failure To max
the ends meet Is fatal to all conccruc,
Tho first thing Is to establish r,
ceiying depot, where all record can i
taken, then the forwarding station an
in between the surgical teams of oil
crrs who work under me-. ono team col
i. sist, of three trained surgeon, and
; am now carrying two such. In additjo
carry AN orthop"dic specialist and
Heuru- p~ychiatri-t together with q -
, treatment expert who takes charge ,
the establishment OF the ga trratm"I
station. We are Away, we'll i'm und,
artillery fire but 80 far have escape
with very few ca-ualtics. Am holdiI
my fingers crossed most OF the tin
/ these days though. While | write Il
= acroplanc- are busy overhead and Sc
. eral are engaged in combat The Hun
shot down two of our observation ba
= looms a few hour, ago and cHcrythiI
. points to a 'ba~v time overhead ii IN
. sort Of weather Keeps up. Ii j. :;u
5 clear, and sunny and just the sort
+ weather that the birds like
0 II you viii note the date Of this L.
= ter you viii see Just what drive IS, a
;: IN on at this time. OF course the D
: pcrs told YOU all about il long. long Il,
!, aud by this time perhaps YOU have fo
gotten. but we haven't Ii has been ,
?. experience that will remain with Il,