The Nome daily nugget., 1918-04-16
HOW IT FEELS
 TO BE GASSED

sweet gas-crying Gas--itching gas-that is how we know them, and We dread thcm far more than the fiercest bombardment of shot and shell. It was sweet gas that got me and almost cost my life
 Bringing the first personal eXperi- ence of having been gassed and then having been revived, Stanley Kim mel law student and poet of Los Angeles. is home on furlough from ser vice as an ambulance driver in France. says. a recent Los Angeles paper.
 Young Kimmel was the first Los Angeles man placed on record as hav- ing been gassed. Later he was reported as having been rescued when the An titles was sunk, but this disaster he says he escaped by changing the date of his crossing and he was not on the ill-fated boat,
 "G was asleep in q dugout when I got gassed," Kimmel said today. The only time ambulance drivers get to sleep is during bombardment. so we crawl into a dugout and fall into slum- Der while war thundered about out side loud enough to walk the dead or anybody But an ambulance driver. There were four of us and the gas got us all
 When I first come to from it I found myself two miles and a half back of the line I don't know how got there. I was terribly ill, but I'd seen things happen often enough to other men, so I managed to look myself over to see if I'd had an arm or leg shot off after I hadn't, I didn't care for anything else and just went to sleep there on the road They took me to a hospital In Paris and I never was able to get back into action.
 The sweet gas is very nauseous and paralyzes the fighting forces that 1t attacks. The crying gas is the kind that We fear most, for 1t produces blindness, and it causes the eyes to run all the time, hence its name. Itch ] ing gas is that kind which burns the skin.
 "I wish I could recount all my cX- periences in order to give some idea of the things that happen over there. one thing that did happen Is this:
 We had our ambulance full of wounded men and were about to start for the hospital when we came across i a terribly wounded Prussion. Real ! izing that he had practically no chance for his life, yet wanting to alleviate his sufferings, we crowded our own men in the ambulance. put him in with them and rushed him to a hos pital.
 T had just stepped out of the hos pital. after they were established there. when that Prussian exploded hand grenade and fatally wounded half n dozen Frenchmen. He killed himself, but of course he knew he had to die any way, so he gavo that as his thanks for our help. The explosion of the grenade tore the right arm off the Frenchmpn who was attending him.
 "The men who are taken to hospitals, hv the way. have to learn all over again T how to sleep in 0 bed. It seems lots ca sier, at first, to sleep on the floor land you wish the nurses would let you Kimmcl went over as a volunteer before this country became involved in the war. One day he came face to face with a German officer in the barbed wire entanglements and the two stopped to talk.
 Tt often happens" Kimnel said during the day time when not In ac' tion the men frequently talk back anf forth, and there are many, many Ger mans who speak English fluently
 "well this German officer refused tC believe I was an American who hat come across. He said the American