El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-03-15
DUAL MONARCHY
UNABLE To PAY
War Has Rendered Austro-
Hungary Financially
Helpless Land.
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Austrians. The men in Budapest
feared that the new scheme would in
reality aggravate the condition like
" if the first plan was carried out
The south Slavs also might. and prob
ably would. gravitate towards the
German element in Austria. The
many spirited debates in the. Hun
garian parliament finally killed the
movement, and the empire monarchy
/ remained what It was.
! There is no doubt, however, that on
the day on which internal harmony Is
] less essential than now, the plan OF 8
Quadruple federation OF the Danube
countries will be carried into effect
over the protests of the Hungarian
parliament and people. The empire
will then have four stateS-Austria,
Hungary, Bohemia and GaNcia, and
SnvOnia, as I viii here identity the
southern group of Slav states. to wit
| -SlaYonia, Croatia, the Slovene dis
tricts. Bosnia, Herzegovina and Dali
malta.
What I have mentioned here shows
that the political wheels els, IN 5,,-i the
monarchy have not stood. stiH during
the war. They have indeed moved
very fast.-Copyright, 1918, Interna-
tional News Service.
the shell holes and burrowed where
there was no cover.
Hunting Protection.
I drew a pretty decent hole myselIs
and a man came pitching in on top
of me. screaming horribly. It was
mine He had it IN the stomach and
clicked in a minute or two.
During the few minutes that I lay
in that hole ! suffered the worst men
tai anguish ever knew Seeing 50
many Of my closest chums go west
had nearly broken me. shaky as I was
when the stunt started. I was drip
ping with sweat and frightfully
nauseated. A sudden overpowering
impulse seized me to get out in the
open and have II over with. was
ready TO die.
Holmes Badly wounded.
Sooner than I ought, for the second
wave had not yet shown up, shrilled
the whistle and lifted them out. II
was a hopeless charge, but 1 was
done. I would have gone at them
alone. Anything TO close the act. To
blazes with everything
As scrambled out OF the shell hole
there was a binding. ear-splitting
explosion slightly to my left, and 1
went down I cid not lose conscious
ness entirely. A redhot iron was
through my right arm and someone
had hit me on the left shoulder with
a sledge hammer. I felt crushed
shattered.
LELldAM4Mz 44APLGSS4OL6 u AAGN
night are, for the most part, vague
and indistinct; but in spots they
stand out clear and vivid The first
thing I knew definitely was when
Smith bent over me, cutting the sleeve
'It's a biighty one." says Smithy.
That was some consolation was
back in the shell hole. or in another,
and there were five or six other fell
lows piled in there, too. All Of them
we're dead except Smith and a man
named Collins, who had his arm clean
off, and myself. Smith dressed my
wound and Collins, and said:
"Better Get Out"
Wed better get out of here before !
Fritz rushes US. The attack was q
rudy failure and they'll come over
and bomb US out Of here"
Smith and I got out OF the hole
and started to crawl It appeared I
that he had q bullet through the I
thigh, though he hadn't said anything /
about ii before. We crawled a ways |
and then the bullets were flying so /
thick that I got an insane desire TO 1
run and get away from them. I got 4
to my feet and legged it So did I
Smith, though how he did 1t with a 4
wounded leg 1 don't know.
The next thing I remember was on 1
a stretcher. The beastly thing swayed /
and pitched, and got seasick. Then 1
came another crash directly overhead, 1
and out I went again. When I came 4
to my head was as clear as a bell. /
A shell had burst over US and had 1
killed one stretcher bearer. The other
had disappeared Smith was there.
He and I got to our feet and put /
our arms around each other and stag
gered on The next 1 knew 1 was in
the Cough Drop dressing station. so
called from the peculiar formation
OF the place We had tea and rum
mere and couple OF Tags from a \
sergeant major OF the R. A NJ c.
Ordered Back to England.
AFTER that there was ride on q
rat car on light railway, and an
other in an ambulance with an Amer
lean driver. Snatches Of CONVERSE
ton about Broadway and a girl in
Newark floated back, and I tried to
work up ambition enough to sing out
and ask where the chap came from
So far 1 hadn't had much pain When
We landed in a regular dressing sta
over and said:
-Blighty for you, son." I had a
piece Of shrapnel or somethiag
through the right upper arm, clearing
the bone and making a hole about
IS big as a half dollar. NY left shoul-
Ter was full Of shrapnel fragments,
and began 10 pain like fury. More
tea More fags Another faint.
When woke up the next time
was sticking q hypodermicl
needle into my chest with a shot Of
anti-iockJaW serum, and shortly after
vas tucked away in a white enam-
slled Red Cross train. with a pretty
nurse taking my temperature. I loved
hat nurse. She looked sort of cool
and holy. I finally brought up in
base hospital No. u. IN Rouen. I was
mere four days and had a real bath
genuine boiling out Also had some
shrapnel picked out Of my anatomy.
got IN fairly good shape. though
still in good deal of dull pain.
It was a glad day when thew nut 4
patch OF US on train for Havre,
on Post.
CHE End.)