The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-29
CONDITIONS AT ARE WELL BROUGHT OUT Lester Scheide Addresses
 Girls Patriotic League COLLEGE CLUB
 MET YESTERDAY Connecticut Nurses Hold Annual Convention
 at Hotel

Under the auspices of the Girls Patriotic League, Lester Scheide. member of the French Ambulance service, sent home after being ''gassed" to tell the people in this country what is going on on the other side, spoke last evening in the auditorium of the Bridgeport High school This young chap is a very earnest, convincing speaker, his words being fired with 9 just rage at the sights he has seen and the experi- ences he has had on the other side. He was at Verdun and took part in the great drives. MT. Scheide is the son of the president of one of the Hartford insurance companies, one of the "dollar-a-year-m men," who are serving the United States. Both him. self and his family have made great sacrifices in order to give whatever possible for the boys in the trenches so he was not asking anything of his audience that he has not done him. self.
 MT. Scheide joined the American unit in the French Ambulance ser vice and left Yale to go over last May. He was located in some un- charted portion of the ship and so rough was his voyage over that when he landed he had to be placed in a hospital. When he recovered he was sent at once to the second sector at the Verdon front. His description of the conditions at the front was most interesting.
 There are no lights at the front, except way below ground in the dug outs and some of these which have passageways 150 feet long, leading under ground, are lighted with cleo tricity. There is large dugout un- der Hill BOA at Verdun that has re- gently been retaken from the Ger mans that is made of cement and electrically lighted. The French are in there and they are in there to stay Ambulance drivers have to feel their i way along the roads, and know they have left the road only when they go into a ditch.
 When drive begins, first you hear the big guns, then the smaller ones and when there is a barrage fire there is one continuous roar. and it is l impossible to distinguish one gun from another. First there are inter- mittent flashes of light on the hori- zon and then steady glare. Then after time the wounded begin to come back.
 T was at Bar-le-Duc when the i station was bombed. The express 1 from Paris was due at 11:12 and ex- l actly at that time the Germans placed i two bombs on the track. An old woman standing near me, a civilian was struck with a piece of the shell and carried away. Many were in- 1 Jured. I was within a quarter of a mile of a hospital that was bombed It was in an isolated position, the cen- ter of field. The roof painted white and on it red cross. Nothing any where near it that would indicate the military. It was blown to bits; doc tors, nurses and patients, all murder ed.
 NO sacrifice, however great that you might make cannot be dignifed by that name in comparison with the magnificent sacrifices the men at the front are making. Life is the greatest thing in the world when you are fac ing death, but these men give it uE without a murmur. The length of she war depends on the people and what they are willing to do. Every slip every lost opportunity to help the men in the trenches lengthens the war. They are willing to fight an6 they will, but they cannot do it with, out your help"
 MT. Scheide described being 'tGassed.
 F'It is a heavy greenish gray vapo that creeps along the ground and the mass of vapor is about ten feet high It creeps downward. One can escape it by getting above it but the Ger mans send first 8 gas shell and the1 a high explosive shell so there is no much choice. There are three effect! of gas, one goes mad, dies or become! unconscious. The gas causes grea agony in breathing and those who gt
 insane die horrible deaths.
 Germany said the speaker, on be ing asked what Germany was like, ''i like Holland, low lying countr! damned all round. In Germany froL
 the litt1est children to the women, ev
 eryone cries to Allied prisoners, Got Strafe Ezngland.' Women spit in you , face, you see Gott Strafe England , everywhere on walls, of houses, ol the walls of dugouts. They are S insistent with it you think they fee
 God must punish England for tn
 Germans can't. Let me tell you tha
 if anyone strives to gloss over tn
 German atrocities at this stage of tn ] game he is either a knave or fool } Mrs. c. B. Wilson presided at tn s meeting and Mrs. w. T. Hlncks gay f a talk on Thrift Stamps.
 The annual meeting of Connecticl ; Organization for Public Health Nur. '. ing will be held at the Stratfield ht tel, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 1918, at ' a. m.
 Mrs A. L. Riker, president of Il
 Visiting Nurse Association of this cit
 will give the opening address. D n John T. Black, commissioner of tf }, State Board of Health, will speak C l Public Health Nursing," after whic r will follow the election of officers. @ At 1 D. m. there will be a lunchec
 in the breakfast room of the hot
 which all nurses will attend
 At 2:S0 p. m. the annual meeti1 l. of the State Association of the Gra d tate Nurses will be held at the Stra
 field. Rev. Matthew Judge will opt