The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-05-09

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TWAS day Of mental anguish for
julie, but with night came change,
for that was the night when Aguinal'
dos army made an attack upon
Manila and encircled the city with a
wall of fire from 10000 rifles from a
little after dark until daylight the next
morning. Under that hail of millions
Of bullets julie lay all night long, his
regiment being one Of those detailed
to defend the city from an attack from
without. Firing but an occasional vol
ley in the direction of the forts, block
houses, entertainments and swamps
Surrounding the city, within whose
protection the Filipinos remained
while pouring their heavy and continu-
Gus fire into the town. Jules regi"
ment waited impatiently for daylight.
With the first signs Of day the FIJI.
ipinos' fire ceased, but it soon broke
out again with increased intensity as
the American line began to move for
ward through the swamps to the at
tack. Wading in water up to their
breasts, crossing the swept bridges,
plunging through junglesl of brush,
crossing open spaces exposed to the
full view of the enemy, with men FALL
ing dead and wounded on all sides,
the volunteers pushed steadily for
ward until they came within charging
distance of the. forts and trenches, and
then they rushed into and over them
and swept the Filipinos out as rest
less flood sweeps driftwood from q
river. =. * > t''' a..-.5 e 4
It was during this last desperate
charge that Jules fell with wound In
the head that rendered him insensible.
A little later the litter bearers of the
hospital corps found him. and carried
him back to the field hospital, where
his wound was, given a temporary
dressing, and a tag was tied to his
clothing, giving his name and regi-
ment, and q diagnosis of his injury, to
expedite work at the general hospital.
His name and regiment had been
ascertained from his Identification tag,
little. aluminium disk which nearly
every soldier wore suspended from his
neck by string, device presented
by the Red Cross society. An hour
later he was placed with others, both
dead anu wounded, in an ambulance
and carried to the general hospital,
which stands on the bank of the Pasig,
Just outside the city wall. The oper-
ating room was full of wounded await
%y,r,
hospital being utterly inadequate to
the demands so unexpectedly maze
upon it,. and it was several hours be-
fore Jules turn came to receive sur
gical attention. In his case the delay.
was not serious, for he was sent
to a cot hastily improvised in one OF
the casualty wards. It was here
he first recovered his senses sufficient
ly to realize what had happened, and
to think again of the one absorbing
thing that had been on his mind con-
stantly as he lay under fire the night
before, and even during the excite
| ment Of the advance and charge upon
the fort. Why had Susie deserted him?
It seemed to him now, enfeebled both
mentally-and physically by his injury,
that she had deserted him in the hour
of peril and left him to die in a strange
land. Mental worry and increasing
fever from his wound gradually rem
dered him delirious, moaning and tos-
sing upon his cot, and reproaching
Susie for her faithlessness. 1t was thus
one of the new Red Cross nurses
found him as she went from bunk to
bunk in her ward ministering to her
charges. ,..l2 ~. -. ..-.. +. IN
The transport that had brought the
mail the day before had also brought
a dozen Red Cross nurses, and never
was woman's help more badly needed.
They had not yet landed from the ship
when the sounds Of battle warned them
that their services would soon be In
demand. A launch was hastily sent
out into the bay where the ship was
anchored, and the nurses were taken
on board and conveyed directly to the
stone steps leading up from the river
to the back Of the hospital. and they
were Immediately assigned to duty In
the wards. A few wounded came In
during the night. but in the morning
came perfect stream. All day long
these women worked, assisted by a
number Of American ladies who had
volunteered their services, and when
night came, with 1t a cessation Of new
cases, they were completely exhausted.
It was at this time that the nurse who
bod ,3;scnyored Jule's condition went
to her companion and said:
"Nfiss Preston, there is wounded
man from your state. on my side OF
the ward who is delirious. You said
you wanted to see all the men from
your state"
Thanking her, Miss Preston follow
ed to the cot where julie lay, his head
swathed in bandages as to expose only
a portion of his face, and stopped
down to read his name on his identi-
fication tag. She had barely read: