The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-10-15

he German yoke. They waited in hiding
I gave themselves up.
Photograph. tcl Underwood & Underwood
Before We realized it, we were far
forward.
Although we had passed British
batteries OF various calibres and had
heard them firing, we concluded
that the line was still distant be
cause there was absolutely no re-
taliation by the enemy. We were
not to hear or see the explosion OF
a single German shell. However,
climbing to what seemed the high
est ground ahead of the sausage bal
looms we noticed that the shell holes
we walked around were fresh
enough to have been made a few
hours before. We also noticed the
embroidery-likc designs made in the
soft earth by bullets of the enemy
machine guns which had evidently
trained in barrage on this hill
then some fresh blood and scissored
bits of bloody khaki, evidence of
first aid followed by dressings dur
ing the morning.
Advanced Dressing Stations
Close at hand we came to the
most advanced dressing station,
where British, American and Ger
man wounded were being brought
in by stretcher bearers and ambu-
lances. The station was in an open
field, but the Royal Engineers had
leardy cut a roadway up to the op-
already cut roadway up to the op-
ling of the stretcherS. The doctors
in charge were American officers
but their orderieS and the ambu-
lance staff were all English. The
doctor in command apologized for
not shaking hands as his were COW
cred with blood. Many OF the Tom
mics who had helped to dress or
carry wounded Nanks had blood on
their uniforms. \ Carolina boy, very
slight of build, was the only one
crying with pain. lie had a body
wound which no dope could relieve
As soon as he had been examined,
the British sergeant in charged Of
the loading of the ambulances,
looked gravely at his tag and or
dered him lifted gently into the first
to leave. As the stretch
er was lifted the boy screamed. The
big Tommy leaned over him and
stroked the Iank's face There,
steady, little boy he kept repeat
ing. STEADY, steady The Yank be-
came quiet. Another Yank who said
he was from the stockyardS at Mem
phiS told OF three Germans with a
machine gun who had kept him on
his stomach for quite time. When
he worked around them they sud
denly held up their hands and cried
'Kamerad.' But | didn't come all
the way over here for nothing,
stranger said the Tennesseean in
reply, pushing out his lips oddly as
if about to spit. Both his arms and
one of his shoulders were heavily
but he didn't seem to
realize it.
Better jump in here. lad and get /
4 seat said the Tommy who was
oading the char-a-banc with walk
ng wounded, "or these boche will
squeeze you out"
Soon the chara-banc with its mot
ey collection OF Yanks. Tommies |
md Germans, all some ?what stupor-, g,
)us with drugs and injections moved /
loWn the road.
A Tommy who insisted he wanted |
resh air and preferred to walk to-
ward the casualty clearing station
several miles in the rear
aid that his wound as well as most !
If the others. were cases caused /
" Shrapnel. In fact we had heard /.
rom the surgeons that there was
Tot a single bayonet cases and very
ew machine gun wounds. At the !
tation the Tommy told thrillingly |
,f the gigantic barrage. the infantry
ADVANCE. the onrush of the whippet
naks through the infantry with the
English cavalry moving into the bat
le in squadron formation so that
he thousands of horses legs all in
,lined forward in parallel slant.
Glad To Be Prisoners
Finally we got back to the Yank |,
pow" cage. or prisoner of war cage
which had begun to ill up, 1900 hav-
ng been counted at noon, with 1
patches Of others streaming in from 4
he hill paths. Here we found the |
,ditor of a Chattanooga paper in
,harge as lieutenant OF intelligence. |
The questioning OF prisoners was
lone by New York lieutenant who |
lad been an Associated Press editor
md his staff. The prisoners knew |
lothing OF the kaiser's general or
Ter on peace nor of the peace over
lures. They stood in lines with
heir coins, papers and keepsakes on