The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-11-21
orge Matthew Adams Service


anything else picked up along TIN
front.
When they are getting well, the mel
learn harness making, mechanical
drawing, telegraphy,-. gardening, poul
try raising, typewriting, bookkeeping
and the men teach the nurses how tt
make canes out OF shell cases, aD(
rings Of aluminium, and slippers =
gloves out Of blankets.
The nurses certainly work hard
They always have more to do thar
they ought to, but they never complain
and are always cheerful and ready tC
play games when they have the time
or read to some poilu. And their work
is pretty dirty too: I would not like
| to have to do 1t. They say there were
lots Of French society. ladies working
as nurses, but you never heard much
| about society, Or any talk about Lord
Helpus, OF Count Whosis, or pink teas
Or anything like that from these
nurses.
A few shells landed near our hos
pital, while was there, but no patient
was hit. They knocked a shrine of Our
Lady to splinters, though, and bowled
over big crucif1x. The kitchen was
near by, and it was just the chefs luck
that he had walked over to our ward
to see pal Of his, when shell landed
plumb in the center of the kitchen,
and all you could see all over the bar
racks Was stew.
That was a regular eatless day for
us. until they rugged up bogies and got
some more dixies, and mixed up some
cornmeal for us. The chef made up
for it the next day, though. The chef
was a great little guy. He was a
"blesse" himself, and 1 guess his stom-
ach sympathized with ours.
There was q Frenchman in the bed
next to me who had the whole side of
his face torn off. He told me he had
been next to a bomber, who had just
lit fuse and did not think it was
burning fast enough, so he blew on it.
It burned fast enough after that, and
there he was.
There was Belgian in one of the
other wards, whom I got to know pretty
well, and he would often come over
and visit me. He asked many ques-
tons about Dixmude, for he had had
relatives there, though he had lost
track Of them. He often tried to de-
scribe the house they had lived in, so
that might tell him whether it was
still standing or not, but I could not
remember the place he spoke of. Dur
ing our talks, he told me about many
atrocities. Some of the things he told
me had heard before. and some Of
them heard Of afterward. Here are
some things that he either saw or
heard Of from victims:
He said that when the Germans en-
tered the town OF st. Quentin, they |
started firing into the windows as they |
passed along. First, after they had &C. |
cupled the town, they bayoneted every |
they could find. Then /
hey took about half of the children
hat they could find, and killed them
With their musket butts. After this.
hey marched the remainder OF the chill
lren and the women to the square.
where they had lined up q row of male
citizens against a wall. The women
md children were told that If they
moved, they would all be shot. An
'ther file OF men was brought up, and
made to kneel in front Of the other
men against the wall.
The women and children began to
eg for the lives Of the men, and many
{ them were knocked in the head with
I'm butts before they stopped.
linen the Germans fired at the double !
ank OF men. After three volleys, there I
'ere eighty-fOur dead and twenty
Most Of the wounded they
hen killed with axes. but somehow. /.
lree or four escaped by hiding under
he bodies OF, others and playing dead,
nough the officers walked up and
own firing their revolvers into the
lies Of bodies. s
Inc next day the Germans went {
trough the wine cellars, and shot all i
he inhabitants they found hiding v
lere. A lot Of people, who had taken
'fuge In a factory over night, decided v
come out with white. flag. They t
ere allowed to think that the white t
lg would be respected, but no sooner D
ere they all out than they. were seized n
III the women publicly violated in the O
uare' after which the men were shot. O.
paralytlc was shot as he sat in his
m-cha1r, and boy Of fourteen was d
ken by the legs and pulled apart. N
AT one place, man was tied by the II
ms TO the ceiling of his room and set a
re- HIS trunk was completely car III
nlzed, but his head and arms were II
burned. At the same. place, the it
dy OF a ffteen-year-old boy was p
and, pierced by more than twenty II
yonet thrusts. Other dead were
and with their hands still in the air.
ming up against walls. II
At another place the Germans
eiIed the town for a day, and then
tered and sacked it. The women II