The Washington times., 1918-10-19

Wounded Eoldiers at Walter Reed
Hospital-sC...e wearing service
stripes indicating time at the front,
others wearing gold stripes acknowl-
edging them as some OF the wounded
In the early battles. still others hav-
ing both to their credit-are down
cast because of the present influenza
quarantine. which keeps them from
visiting the city.
Its not that any OF US want to
show on in public" said one of the
soldiers; "but for weeks some of US
nave spent long hours in the base
hospitals of France picturing to our
selves what a real American time We
would have when once back home in
the States"
"And, by the way" said another of
the soldiers who had seen service in
the trenches since the entrance OF
the United States into the big con-
met, IF l had my little dog Detail
with me here, 1 would not be so lone
some"
The soldier has talked so much
about that little dog with the mill
tary name that all who have not
heard about him urge the uninitiated
10 listen to the story OF the dog left
in France
Dog ESeaped Death.
We'll, on one OF our first visits to
a dugout." began the sergeant. "the
boches began dropping their mustard
smells. and we were given a chance to
serape on our gas masks for a real
purpose.
But you should have seen that
little old smuggled oversee dog Il
found on the Mexican border. As soon
as he got a sniff OF the fumes he be-
gan running about trying to put his
nose in something.
He finally managed to find a soft
place in the earth to the side of the
dugout, and there forced his nose into
the loose dirt, where he snuffed and
clawed until l pulled him out by the
tail after the coast seemed clear and
the sentry had yelled down from the
doorway that the cheese factory had
stopped burning.
THE next morning, when our cap
tain heard about how Detail had saved
from the gassing. he ordered
me to go over to the ordnance depot
and get a broken gas mask and bend
II into such shape that Detail could
get 1t over his nose. He soon learned
to wear IL like a veteran when the
gong sounded.
"Our outfit was later ordered from
the trenches to a village some miles
back in a French village of the Toul
sector.
"One night just before taps the
ooches opened up their field artillery
on the little village with shrapnel and
some Of those mustard gas pellets.
We're Gas Masks.
"As soon as the shells stopped fall
ng the whole company was at once
looking after the injured. not only
hose OF our company but also amongl
he civilian population as well. And
along as big as any of them
vas Detail, all masked up and as ex-
,ited, scratching around for bodies |
hat might be buried beneath the rub
Dish and fallen timbers. We worked /,
here until near morning. All the ,
doctors and nurses were giving the i
injured and gassed first aid and send
ng them off to the hospital tents.
Little Detail and ! were about
worn out, and with his mask and my
,wn slung over my shoulder I was
iragging along toward our billets
when / heard a woman scream. Both
u US turned quickly enough to see a
french woman fall upon a pile OF
and begin digging.
'Pierrot, Pierrot.' she sobbed. and
away in dead faint right
lear US.
"I presumed at once what the situa-
ion was. She had returned to her
'recked home and some one was miss
ny The d0cfOra rama alOpO and had |
Ter hurried off to the hospital tent,