Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-06
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MUR kitchen had been destroyed the
" previous night by the enemy's fire
ehd we hunGered. Our ranks were refill.
Cd by fresh drafts and our artillery
again doomed all day, playing havoc
with the enemy's wire fences. We knew
that 1t meant another order TO advance
the following night, and our eNpecta-
tions proved correct. At about the
same hour as the previous morning
we climbed out and started on the run
for the enemy's position. Again a rain
Of shells and bullets, again scores OF
wounded and killed, again smoke and
aas and blood and mud. But we
reached the wire parapet and it was
DOWN and torn to pieces this time. we
halted for an instant. emitting an IN
Human "Hurrah! Hurrah." that struck
Arror into those Germans that were
btiil alive in their half-demolshed
Trenches, and with fixed bayonets
flushed forward and jumped into them.
2 As was about to descend into the
hftch I suddenly observed huge Ger
h1an aiming at me. Hardly did I have
Time TO fire when something struck
my right leg. and I had sensation
bf a warm lsiuid trickling down my
desh. / fell. The boys had put the
enemy to flight and were pursuing
him. There were many wounded ana
kries of "Save me Holy Jesus! came
from every direction.
suffered little pain and made sew
kral efforts to get UP and reach our
trenches. But every time | failed. l
Mas too weak. There I lay in the
bark, of the night, within fifty feet
pf what was, twenty-four hours be
Pore the enemy's position, waiting Tor
hAwn and relief. To be sure, ! was
hot alone. Hundreds, thousands OF
kallant comrades were scattered on
the field for versts.
k 1t was four hours after / was
wounded before day arrived and with
II our etretcher. bearers. l was picked
hp and carried to a firstaid station
IN the immediate rear. My wound
MAS bandaged, and I was sent on tC
khe Division Hospital. There ] was
placed on a hospital train and taken
10 Kiev.
4 1t was about Easter OF 1915 wher
d arrived in Kiev. The station there
was so crowded with wounded from
the front that hundreds OF stretchers
kouid not be accommodated inside and
were lined up in rows on the plat
Form outside. was picked up by an
hmbulance and taken to the Eugene
Iaxaret, where / was kept in the same
ward with the men. OF course, II
was a military hospital, and there was
no women's ward.
k I spent the spring of 1915 there
THE nurses and physicians took gooc
Fare Of all the patients in the hospital
NV swollen leg was restored TO It's
normal condition, and ii was a rest
ful two months that I passed In kiev
At the end of that period | was taken
before a military medical commission
examined, pronounced in good health
hrovided with ticket, money and a
&ertiflcate and sent TO the front again
1 My route now lay through Molo
dechno. an important railway termt
hal. When ] arrived there in the
sarlx- mart of July I was sent to the
GSrps headquarters by wagon, and
khence proc ,ded on foot to my regi-
nqent.
my heart throI nd with joy as
drew nearer to the front. I had beer
ANXIOUS to get back to the boys. They
had endeared themselves to me sc
umuch that my company was as be
Adyed to me as my own mother.
NI1ought of the comrades whose lives
Hshad saved and wondered how many
tpf them had returned to the fighting
,lfne. ! thought of the soldiers whom
II had left alive and wondered IL they
txvere still among the living. Many
familiar scenes came up in my
Ainagination as | marched along under
1.-The brilliant rays of the sun.
Y fAs 1 approached the regimenta
A,eaduuarters a soldier saw me in tht
fddstance and turning to his Comrade
NE pointed toward me.
"Who could that be?" he asked
{reminiscently., The partner scratched
his neck and said:
4 why. he looks familiar"
"That's Yashka!" exclaimed thu
h1rst, as I moved nearer. "Yashka!
fYashka! they shouted at the top o
fheir voices, running toward me a
Hast as they could.
sYashka is back! Yashka Is back.
evvent out the word TO men and officer
salike. There was such spontaneou
Hoy that I was overwhelmed. Ou
kregiment was then in the reserves
land soon 1 was surrounded b,
hundreds of old friends. There wa
entermittent kissing. embracing, hand
{ahaking. The boys pranced about lik
fkids, shouting, Look who's here
fYashka!" They had been under tn
Impression that was ulsapled an
<would never return. They congratu
dated me upon my recovery. Even IN
5OfFicers came out TO shake hands witt
syne, some even kissing me, and all eA
Fpressing their qualification at my r'
fcovery.
4 shall never forget the ovation
freceived from my comrades.
They carried me on their shoulders
5nhoutine, "Hurrah for Yashka! Thre
N.hers for Yashka!" Many OF ther
hrrantsd me TO visit their dugouts an
f,ore with them the food parcels the
3d{eceived from home. The dugout
Mesa really in a splendid state clear
FURNISHED, well protected l was rsai
Miened to my old company, the I'M
fs<nth, and was now considered a We
(oren,
our company was detailed soon I
<nct a. the protecting force TO batter
<of artillery. Such an assignment wa
{rotarded by the men as a vacation. 10
~ made possible "A genuine rest ]
kh<althfuI surroundings. We spent d
ffvSsen two and three weeks with IN
nftery and were removed 70 siooods
~ 1or1 ~ the vicinity of Lake Narotcl
H1o@ forty versts from Moiodecnns
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