El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-11
GOD ON SIDE Of
BIC ARTILLERY.
Army Doctor Tells Of Ter
rible Suffering Of the
Wounded in War.

w " AAAAAANAA A. " -
aThe people Of Germany. Of Austria,
Of Hungary. Of France. Of England
Of the United States-of every country
in this great world war-are praying
every day for God TO be on their side.
As long as Germany has the heavy
artillery. he is on the German side, out
when we get the heaviest artillery,
he viii be on our side
This was the declaration OF Mai C.
r. Mcdonald. surgeon United States
national army, stationed with the
314th cavalry at Camp owen Bierne,
before the Mems club meeting Of ST.
Clements church Monday evening
Mai Mcdonald was one Of so Amer
lean doctors and 200 Red Cross nurses
sent into Germany in 1913. shortly
after the outbreak Of the great war, to
help care for the wounded He was in
Berlin and Budapest for more than a
year treating the wounded and it was
an interesting story he had TO relate
10 the men Monday night
Germuny's soldiers.
Germany does not send its best
trained soldiers into the front lines
10 llEA-r ne saln- ne AI" -llILA az 2
put 90 the front 20 bear the brUnt
Of the fighting. They hardly know
what they are in Tor. Many do not
know. They only know that they
have been summoned 20 the cOlors and
20 arms Take the average type OF
the Pole immigrant who comes TO the
United States and you have the aver
age type Of the man who is fighting
the battles OF the central opWers. He
is ignorant; all he knows is TO obey
the commands of his superiors. If
man does not respond when he Is
called. a public execution follows.
They know nothing but to obey
Brave Under Pain.
These men are stoical and bravs
under great suffering. We took off
legs and arms and did bone stitching.
without the use OF tics-there
was no time FOR DO n we had been able
TO get the anesthesia-and I never
heard man give way 90 his feelings
Does IL hurt you2' ] have often asked,
and the iuvariable answer of the pa
ueut was a German soldier knows
no pain Sometimes the poor fellows
would sleep three or four days after
an operation. they had become so COM
pletely exhausted by suffering. I re-
moved the leg OF German captain
who had been wounded "a days previ-
ously and had received no treatment
bound up In a mud and straw cast. Il
was Eangrenous. took his leg off
above the thigh and IN four hours he
was eating a bowl OF soup and abus-
ing me for cutting his leg off too
far up.
Suffering Of wounded.
Wounded men were brought In
covered with so many vermin that we
could not tell the color OF their uni
forms We treated the worst cases
first. then came 20 the others, but all
were bad enough Many were insane
from living on the battlefield for hours
after being wounded or from shell
shock or wounds I'm the head. Il was
piufuL We stripped the men first,
then gave them a hot bath. then a
benzine bath and then operated on
them and put them onto cots The
conditions I faced IN Germany are
similar 20 the conditions the soldiers
Of every land had 10 endure.
Better arrauEemen are now COM
in the early stages or the war the
suffering Of the wounded was terrible.
Caring for Americans.
Caring for the wounded Americans
We are getting in France now is but
routine. so well equipped is our medi-
can and sanitary service. and I be-
.ieve we could easily care for thou
suffering among our men when they
get into the thickest ~ it. for. I'm ar
.illery fighting, when men are wound
ed by the enemy guns. Go is not posi- ]
be 20 bring ~ hospital am5ulances
while the bomhardmeut goes on and
often the wounded men lie on the bat
.lefield without attention until far
INTO the night
"Our American soldiers are the
greatest fighters in the world. and
when we get into this thing right
hey are going 90 win, but 30 is not
won yet and America is going to see Z
many NJ its wounded men brought Z
back before the war is over
Americn Has shock Coming.
I'VE haven't lost any men so far. Z
compared 20 the number Of men lost /
lr the other nations participating in ]
.his war. When the wounded begin I
.o come in By the thousands. as ] saw
hem hauled into Berlin in box cars ]
hen YOU are going TO appreciate the /
snormity Of this war.
Our operating room was oftenumeS
ike a slaughter hoUse-arms. legs and I
.eet piled high and the blood running .
30 thick on the floor that we had TO I
wear boots 90 keep from getting our T
Get wet Surgeons worked Is hours I
4 day. until completely exhausted. !
zen were piled on straw into box 4
'ars and were taken hundreds OF /
niles I'm all sorts Of conditions. with 4
lut attention. When one died. he was I
ust thrown out beside the station, to I
be picked up and buried later.
Man AEulnsf Machine.
This is war Of man against q I
Machine The ordinary rifle is Of no /
fleet Our soldiers must have ma
,hine guns 10 do their fighting with.
Ind they are being equipped rapidly
The fighting as now getting on top
If the ground again, out of the
renches. and I'm this sort OF warfare
TUT American boys are at their best
an we need is numbers Of men and
ilenty Of modern equipment. includ
ng airDlaneE. and the war will be
,ver The duration Of the war de-
lends on how long 10 viii take US
o get these things in sufficient
Quantities. The American soldier viii