The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-12-20

alyxed he could not talk who was com
pletely cured by Charlie Chaplin in
"a Dogs Life" The boy went in a
broken shadow Of man who had not
spoken a word for weeks. One Of
Charles antics hade him forget HIM
self, he chuckled. and began talking
with his comrades> He' came out OF
the theatre a normal, laughing, hap
py boy. =,
October 1 Capt. Hanna was moved
up 10 one of the front line hospitals.
He reached base hospital No 8 five
days after the Argonne drive began,
when hundreds of new cases We're
coming in every night. Then he went
to the evacuation hospital It 'VerrGl-
mes, on the old Hindenburg line. Here
he Witnessed the burial Of II boys in
a single trench one day. The supply
OF collins was exhausted. and the bur-
ial could not wait. Two chaplains. a
Protestant and a Catholic officiated
The grave diggcrs were lndo-Chlna
soldiers in French uniforms.
Il thought as, ! stood there looking
down upon this long row Of inanimatc
forms OF President Lincoln's words
at Gettysburg. ana ! echoed in my
heart his hope that these soldiers
may not have died in vain y
Capt. Hanna was in Nerdun in DC
tcber when a German plane flew ove'
dropping Ilua propaganda. He picked
uu hrea COPIES Of the circular. print
ed in English on one side and in
rench on the other, with the head
ing. THE German People Offer
! Pea CO. He SAY Il regiment OF Amerl
can boys scramble for these little
scraps Of paper. not because they
We're interested in VIVA, the kaiser
had to say. but because they wanted
to bring them home as souvenirs.
At Verdun he was in the room which
the crown prince had vacated a few
hours earlier. He inspected the heavy
walls OF reinforced concrete with
which Frederick Wilhelm had sur
rounded his chamber, and he saw the
periscOpe reaching up through the
roof with which the crown prince
! had been wont to survey the cOun
try for miles around. Later he Went
over the same ground with Lieut..
Col. Quain, who with Misses Foss ant
Goodman and other Bismarck nurse:
and number of Bismarck and NORTH
Dakota surgeons on his staff, had
charge of base hospital No. GO. With
DR.. Quain he toured the crown
princes tunnel through Dead Mans
hill, by means Of which Frederick VIII
= helm had hoped to throw his Deaths
Head battalion unawares on the
French, and he saw how French air
men had discovered the tunnel and
gassed it. leaving the crown prince
men to die like rats in trap or to
come out into the arms Of the wait
ing French troops. And the only
thing he found alive in this vast
network Of tunnels and chambers in
the limestone of Dead Mans hill was
venerable gray rat, who during the
! interview sat cOntentedly munchlng
half a loaf of bread left by some Yank
or Poilu in chamber Of one OF the
i roms, oblivious to the inspection OF
Can't. Hanna and other officers whose
! flashlights were trained upon him and
his banquet boards.
CDR. Quain," said Capt Hanna, lis
doing splendid work over there. He
has as many as GO operations in one
night. He declares it isn't surgery
but butchery. and perhaps it is, but
it produces wonderful results. The
boys have the recuperative powers OF
youth. They come in with terrible
wounds, infected, suffering with gas
gangrcne, and a few days later they
are walking about, we'll and happy
again.
| "a simple wound doesn't seem to
/ bother these boys. Everyone over
there has the souvenir craze. met
, young lieutenant one day and we
were comparing souvenirs. He show
ed me several that he had picked up.
l asked him how he got them, and he
told me that he was lying wounded
out in No Mans Land and that while
waiting for the stretchcr bearers to
come up he employed his time Dig
ging around for something to take
back. And l found later that all this
time he had machine gun bullet
through his lungs and another through
his leg, and still ne could think OF
souvenirs.
CAL the dressings we used over
there. and we used endless quantities
Of them every day, were supplied by
American women. These dressings
meant life to our wounded boys. We
passed $4,000 cases through out hos
pital in six weeks, and there were 25
other hospitals doing the same work:
And every wound had to be dressed
and filled With gauZe which had been
prepared by American women at
home"
Capt. Hanna's narrative was one of
the most convincing heard in Bis
mack since the war began. He spoke
with the memory of what he had gone
through vivid and fresh, and with ex-
traordinary powers Of description. No
one noted the passage of time. 1t
was difficult to believe, when he had
finished, that he had talked for more