Arizona republican., 1918-08-31

soldiers, bldck ana yellow ana Wnlte, for the color line does not irritate the French; and we saw how gay and hap py they were crowding into picture shows. listening to the regimental band and sitting on the sidewalks before the cafes, or dancing with the girls in the parks.
 The End of the Day
 Then a time came when the village streets were lonely and dark and we knew that the bugle had sounded taps. And so in due course we came to the end of the days journey, at the end of spur of the railroad, near one sec tor of the Verdun front. There we found a field hospital of four thousand beds. And when there Is to be re- newed French activity on the Verdun sector, the first thing that happens is the general evacuation of all the pa tients in the hospital. It takes a great many railroad trains to clear out a hospital wherein six thousand wounded men are damned. We saw one hospital train loading. This hos pital had handled twenty six hundred cases in one day the week before we arrived. The big guns that we had heard booming away for three days as We went up and down the line had been grinding their awful grist. We walked through the hospital, which covered acres of ground. It is a broad structure, some of the walls are not even papered, but show the two-by- fours nakedly and the rafters above Stoves heat most of the wards, and hospital linoleum covers the runways between the rows of beds. Of course the operating rooms are painted white and kept spotless. The French are marvellous surgeons. and their results in turning men back to the line, both | in per cent of men and tir1fe are up to the normal average of the war; but they are not so finical about flies and fresh air and unimportant dirt as the English or the Americans. They prob | ably feel that there are more essential things to consider than flies and their i trysting places,
 German Prisoners
 In this hospital we saw our first wounded German prisoners We saw | boys fifteen years old. whose voices had not changed. We saw men past fifty. We saw slope -shouldered, hol- | ow-chested, pale-faced men of the academic type, wearing glasses all | eighth of an inch thick. We saw scrubby men who seemed to 'be the dirt and the dross, the dust and the scum of the earth
 | And we saw also some we'll set up 1 Germans, and in a bull-pen near the railroad station waiting for the trains to take them to the interior of France were six thousand German prisoners | for the most part well made men. Here and there was scrub-a boy, deicc- tive or an old man: showing that the | Germans are working these classes ! through the army; but indicating so i far as one batch of prisoners from one part of the battle line may indi- cate, that the Germans still nave a splendid fighting army. But the old German army that came raging through Belgium and northern France in 1914 is gone. Germany is well past | the peak in man power. as shown in l the soldiers of the line. 1t is also like 1 ly that the morale of the German lin1 | has it's best days behind it. The | American ambulance men in the Yer
 dun sector told us of a company of
 German soldiers who had come across a few nights before to surrender. after
 killing their officers. They appeared
 at about ten o'clock at night. and told | the French to cease firing at exactly
 that time the next night for ter
 minutes and another trop of Germans
 would come across. The French ceased
 at the agreed hour and thirty more
 came over and brought the mail tC their comrades. That, of course. is
 not a usual occurrence. But similai instances arc found. The best one car say of the German morale in the army is that it is spotted. In civilian life the nearer one gets to Germany the surer one is that the civilian morale
 seems to be sound. These things w( found in the air ur near the front line trenches where German prisoners talk and where one sees the war "close up.
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