Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-30
rxeEslEhcEs OVERSEAS.

Speaking to an audience OF nus
friends on his native heath here in the
courthouse in Yorkvi1le SATURDAY. az
ternoon, under the auspices of the local
CHAPTER of the Red Cross, Col. George
Walker, Medical Corps, United states
army, who recently returned to the
states after service in France since
June, 1917, delivered most interest
ing and illuminating address on con-
ditions in France as the American
army found them when it came ana
recited in most interesting manner
his personal experiences and observa-
tions while member of the American
Expeditionary Forces. Cob WalkeFS
who Is member of the staff of johns
Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, is re-
garded as one of the foremost au-
thorities on venereal diseases In the
world. He is native of Yorkville and
early in his career practiced medicine
here for q number of years. He has
many friends and acquaintances in
this section and there was a"liberal at
tendance of those friends at the court
house Saturday to hear him. He left
Yorkville Sunday afternoon for Balt-
more, and he hopes to secure his dis
charge from the military service at an
early date and return to- his former
work.
Fortunes at Low Ebb.
Fortunes of the Allies were at a low
ebb, said Col. Walker at the time ]
left the States on June,14. 1911, as u
member of the Hopkins unit. There
was a spirit of deep melancholia and
depression among the Allied troops
and an evident realization of the fact
that unless the Americans should soon
come and come in numbers, the Huns
would surely conquer. There is no
question but what the Americans won
the war, not through the fighting that
they did but because Of the moral ef-
feet of their presence and the realiza-
ton among the Germans after they
had encountered the Americans at
Chateau Thierry and at Belleau Wood
that they were fighting an enemy of
different type and calibre, an enemy
that possessed more resourcefulness
and individually than any other enemy
they had fought, an enemy that was
not a mere machine, efficient and
powerful as machine only, but a
machine with cogs possessed of the
ability to operate themselves.
Paris in the Dark Days.
Col. Walker painted vivid picture
of the CITY of Paris at the time the
long range gun of the Germans played
such havoc and produced so much
CONSERVATION in the last year OF the
war. He was in Paris at the time the
big gun was in play. The French had
become used to airplane raids, he said,
and bombardmeNts were of daily oc-
currence. But this terrible gun SEEM
ed TO throw the people into condi-
tion of hopeless despair. Every day,
at stated intervals the big shells would
come smashing into the city. Firing
of the gun began at eight in the
morning. Then it commenced ut u
and in the evening at 6. The people
knew not what to do. II was be-
lievcd that German airmcn were
dropping bombs from great height.
Allied airmen went up into the clouds
in droves and secuted the air. They
could find nothing. Day after day
they continued their scout, and each
evening returned, their search un-
rewarded A feeling Of uncanniness
and deadly fear spread through the
population. The big she IS continued
to burst. The German lordcs were
pressing on. 1t appeared that Paris
must surely fall. Preparations were
made to evacuate the city as the
capital OF the country and remove 1t
to Bordeaux. Indeed this purpose