The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-08-01
WOUNDED MEN GET
IMMEDIATE CARE
REACH BASE HOSPITALS FOUR
HOURS AFTER INJURY.
SURGEONS ARE HARD WORKED
Stay at Posts Without Any Sleep For
4e Hours-one Boy "Got Five
Huns Before They
Got Him."
(By Frank ]. Taylor)

With the American Armies in
France, July 31.-TwO ever-moving
streams of traffic over the roads be-
tween the Ourcq and the Marine tes-
tify to the intensity Of the struggle
north of the former river.
Fresh troops, guns, ammunition and
supplies are advancing, while the
backwash of this stream consists
mostly of ambulanCes carrying the
wounded.
At hastily established dressing sta
tions in villages, in woods and at
crossings, the wounded are laid on
the ground, quickly attended to and
sorted out" then sent on to the rear
in larger ambulances.
Doctors % Without Sleep.
Doctors and attendants who have
not slept for As hours, remain at
their work. Most of the wounded
are reaching hospitals, so miles be-
hind the lines, within four hours of
the time they are hurt.
American girls, comprising a unit
for the relief of civilian war victims,
who were near the front, hastily
manned Fords and, speeding to the
front, carried wounded from dressing
stations to hospitals over roads that
were constantly under bombardment
German airmen attempted to ham,
| per the Americans by pouring machine
gun fire into the roads last night
Bring Down Two Planes.
A number of doughboys, in charge
of a sergeant, turned their automatic
rifles upward and literally got two
birds with one stone" They wound
ed the pilot of one machine, who lost
control and drove his plane into an
other Both machines dropped near
the Americans.
The courage of the Americans is
| almost incredible. In the face Of
rain of bullets from machine guns, one
| lieutenant led group against a boChe
machine gun nest, but was trapped in
| a position surrounded by a score of
guns. The Americans were moved
down until only the lieutenant and a
corporal remained unhurt The two
returned to the American lines, each
carrying wounded man. They went
back three times and brought in all
the remaining wounded,
Officer Hit Six Times.
The lieutenant, who was hit six
| times while resCuing his men, fell eX-
hausted at the dressing station when
| he returned from his third trip.
AnOther group, charging machine
gun, dropped one by one until only
corporal was left. He captured the
gun and killed the remaining Ger
mans with his pistol.
One Boys Fighting Spirit.
One of the heroic physicians told
me this incident:
Just yesterday | returned from
three-day trip near the battle front"
he wrote "All day and through
sullen boom of the great Cannons,
and it was horrible thought to con-
slider that every time that sound was
heard some one or more of our friends
or foes fell in death. Day before
yesterday | rode down in an ambu-
lance with a mere boy whose leg had
been torn by piece of shell. I
killed FIVE before they got me- he
said. 'fiye-I counted them. | never
thought that | would thank God that
took the lives of FIVE men, but do
thank Him this very minute"
Dead Germans Line Roads.
Not a single house in any of these
towns and villages is intact-nOt one
! that may be repaired and made fit for
human habitation. All the walls
! standing must be pulled down and
the houses entirely rebuilt The
orchards and woods have been hewed
down by shells. The sight of all thin
deliberate destruction made one re-
jOice to see the roads lined with the
enemy dead The crown princes
soldiers lie where they fell in the
wheat fields, vineyards and orchards,
while strewn everywhere are the car
cases of the poor slain horses.
Here and there horse and rider had
fallen together noticed a full
grown fox which a shell had hurled
from thicket into the road. Vast
quantities of steel helmets and other
parts of equipment were scattered
about.