The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-06

the lines. but there another came up and the two surrounded him. For long time he kept them busy and though they finally crippled his machine so that he fell inside their lines, he went down with the consciousness that he had pre- viously killed two German aviators. Wellman said that he had heard through Swiss channels that Hitchcock. who was seriously wounded, is now in a German prison camp.
 Three days later wellman, going out to even up for the mishap to his chum, brought down two Boche airmep within 90 minutes.
 On March %, when flying on patrol duty, Wellman's machine wGs winged by a German archie gun and he was obliged to volplane to earth. He landed back of the French lines, but in a forest which broke his plane, injuring his back and aneye. After he had recovered some what in hospital he received three months furlough. He intends to go back when fully recovered and to fight with the American forces.
 Wellman said that all the French troops are talking of the stubborn resistance made by the American troops and that the exploits of the Alabama troops in particular are talk of the whole French army
 Miss Katherine Adams, another pas senger, who has been working for the last year with the Red Cross in a Belgium hospital at La Panne, three miles back of the present line in Flanders, near the coast, told how Ger man destroyers out at sea had shelled the town on March 21, pouring 800 shots into the village. Several shells hit the hospital, killing five nurses and many of the wounded soldiers in the hospital. Fifteen young American women were working in the hospital, said Miss Ad- ans, but all of them escaped injury. British destroyers eventually chased the German vessels away. sinking three of them. The following day it was decided to evaeuate the village and remove the hospital to a safer spot.
 MRS. ASTOR WASHES DISHES
 Still another passenger was Mrs. Ernie S Brittin of Cleveland, O., returning for a furlough from the cafeteria which she and Mrs. Vincent Astor are conduct ing for soldiers and sailors at Bordeaux. Sixteen hundred men are cared for daily, Mrs. Brittin conducting the lunch codn- ter and Mrs. Astor the restaurant. Mrs. Astor is doing excellent work, Mrs. Brit tin says washing dishes, trudging fl om table to table with big pitchers of mix and everything that the other helpers do She is a great favorite with the boys Mrs Brittin says. Mrs Ethel Rumsey, daughter Of Oliver Hartman, is also do- ing good in the cafateria.
 William E. Lewis, Philadelphia busl- ness man. who is returning from Y. M c. A work in Paris, said that he hap pened to be passing the Church of St. Gervais, when it was struck by the Ger mans long range gun on Good Fri1ay. One shell struck the church, and a few moments later a second one landed in the street 20 yards from the church, close to three women who were walking past, with an umbrella held over their heads. The flying shrapnel made more than 100 perforataions in the umbrella, but did not harm the women.
 The Parjsians' nonchalance toward the long range gun was remarkable, said MT. Lewis. He expressed his conviction, based on talks with German prisoners, that the Germans would never be able to break through the allies defense, but he urged that men and munitions be sent speedily to France for, he said, the Ger man offensive cannot be taken lightly.