El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-13
EN GOLD.
STEEL DRESSING
This Is Pvt. Collinge's
Recipe for Wounded Ger
mans in the Field.

a wounded German" cried Pvt. w. T.
/ Collinge. the % year old. one-eyed,
/ oue-armed veteran OF the Canadian
/ Highlanders. in d stirring sermon of
hate at Liberty hall wednesday night
! Give it TO him quick. be kind, but
I drive home six inches OF good old
Yankee steel" And the several hum
I dred khaki clad listeners in the audi
/ torium greeted the words with a veil
3 that BODIED in for the kaiser anu his
Z subjects
Sixty trained nurses sat on the plat
/ form during the program, which was
I devoted 10 the Red Cross. Among
/ them were Red Cross nurses from the
] hospitals at Fort Bliss. the army and
navy nurses, the Fl paso County As
I sociatiOn OF Registered Nurses. and
nurses OF the training schools Of HO-
I tel Dieu. Rolston and Providence hos
{ pitfalls Dr. W L. Brown was chair
man.
A PaeaB OF Hate.
] s thousand hearers listened TO Pvt.
Collinge's ringing story Of German
atrocity. Canadian hate and revenge.
and the desperate fighting OF the
early days Of the war when the IA
nous thin line of British khaki. out
numbered seven to one, still held back
the hOrdes Of baby killers. and wom-
( en- murderers- His talk was paean OF
/ hate. that illustrated the grim spirit
which has made the Canadian army
{ one Of the most famous in the world.
Sees MutilationE Himself.
we went across the water in Au-
gust. 1914" said Pvt Collinge, when
our government called for 40 600 men,
and got responses from over 100000.
Some OF the boys got three months.
training before they west over. and
some didn't but we got TO France in
time TO join in the drive after the
Marine when the invaders were falling
/ back toward their own borders. 7 my
self saw the inhuman proclamations
plastered on the walls Of evacuated
villages. ordering the Inhabitants 70
Z leave. the men on one train. and the
women on another. ordering the Wom-
I en- 10 give up instantly their male
children. In that retreat Of the Ger
mans. I myself saw evidence Of the
nutilation OF little BOYS when their
mothers refused TO give them up,
their hands being cut off. and some
times they were even unseGed.
No More Prisoners.
Eighteen thousand British and
Canadians held that line against So
coo Germans. and we held 1t. Hardships
OF that first campaign viii never be
known except 10 those survivors who
took part in il. II was then that the
first gas attack was launched by the
: Germans Il took US entirely by sur
prise. and under the advantage or
that dirty warfare. the Huns forced
US back. But when we retook that
territory, we got a further insight
into the methods Of German warfare
Some Of our brave boys were cruel
fled on barndoors others were killed
and CHARTERED. and muUlauons too
terrible TO describe had been practlced
on others II was then that the Cana
dians vowed never 10 take German
prisoner. and I am confident that
that same vow viii be taken BY the
Three Left Of 125-
Il entered a bomb throwing unit
after the trench warfare had been
resumed We were l25 10 start with.
and used ten different kinds Of
bombs after five minutes training.
In a week there were three OF us left
In those days the Germans were pour
ing from 1000 70 5000 shells an hour
upon US We replied with $50 shells
per hour. for that was all we had
They had three bombs TO our one, but
before we finished with Fritz we
were throwing ten 10 his one.
Write Home First
"Ou one occasion we were sent 70
capture u Germans Our Lieutenant
in command. Windy Holmes, q years
old. told US TO write letter home
before We left which we did
we crawled out across No Man S
Land until we reached the German
trench. when Windy shot the German
sentry. We went over into the Ger
man trench in a hurry, and the Huns
took to their holes. Then screams
OF women we're heard. and the fell
lows. already blood mad. went insane.
and we dashed into those German
dugouts without needing possible
traps.
in the duEout 7 entered we found
ia G.
OF maternity. On the walls were
nailed the arms Of little babies with
the typical German joke scrawled un-
der them. A Souvenir
we found that we had 80 German
prisoners. We had orders to bring
back u, and God knows we hated 10
do IL. The rest Of the 80 started dy-
ing right there In the dugout. and
IL took them four hours to do it.
Loses Arm and Eye.
1T was on the return 20 our
trenches that 1 lost my arm and eve.
started to throw il back whence Il
came II killed two Of my comrades.
I staggered back TO the trench. and
was taken to a hospital on stretcher.
only a man who has gone through
10 can tell what angels the Red Cross
nurses are. They are the wonderful
units in the most blessed organization
on the face Of the earth. IL is due
to the tenderness and efficiency Of
their ministrations that the percent
age Of deaths among the allied
wounded has been as low as 10 is.
Before ! close, I want to say just
a word as 10 the few things that are
Sinner and nastier than a German
God knows that I, and every other
Canadian who has fought those
treacherous fends. hate them with a
hate that few can know until they
experience il. But there are people
who are worse.
Favors Death for ]. W. W.
zone class is the milkfed. pastv-
faced pacifist; the second is the yell
low. underbred Stacker. and the third
is the T. ". W.-Imperial Williams
Workers. That is a class of people
who should be crushed from the face
Of the earth. I favor instant auui-
hilation by death in the quickest
fashion for every convicted T. ". W.
In their footsteps they leave ruin. and
destruction Death is the only rem
edy.
And don't forget the German spy
system. The Huns spend millions Of
dollars in America in espionage. and
every inadvertent piece of information
dropped from the lips Of a living but
incautious mother. as she reads the
letter from her brave son in camp,
to her neighbor across the fence. is
" hisked up. and sent TO Germany.
Mothers. when you hear of a body
Of soldiers leaving even Fort Bliss
for only hike. shut up. Telling it
may lead to the slaughter Of your
own lad in France"
Red Cross Nurses Needed.
DR.. Brown. discussing the work OF
the Red Cross. told Of the demand for I
trained nurses for overseas work. |