Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1919-01-10

The nurses certainly work hard.
They always have more to do than
they ought to, but they complain,
and are always cheerful and ready 10
play games when they have the tine,
or read TO some pollu. And their work
Is pretty 6lrty TOO: l would not like
10 have TO do Il. They say there were
lots OF French society ladies' working
as nurses, but you never heard much
nbout society, or amy talk about Lord
Helpus, or Count Whosls. or pink teas
or anything like that from these
nurses.
A few shells landed near our hos
pital' while I was there, but no patient
was hit. They knocked a shrine Of Our
Lady to spllnters, though, and bowled
over n big cruclix. The kitchen was
near by, and II was Just the chefs luck
that he had walked over to our ward
TO see a pal OF his. when n shell landed
plumb In the ENTER Of the kitchen.
and NIL you could see all over the bar
racks was stew.
That was n regular eatless day for
us, until they rugged up bogses and got
some more dlxies, and mixed up some
cornmeal for us. The chef made up
for II the next day. though. The chef
was a great little guy. He was a
"blesse" himself. and l guess his stom-
ach sympathlzed with ours.
There was a Frenchman in the bed
next to me who had the whole side OF
his face torn of. He told me he had
been next to n bomber. who had Just
liz o fuse and did not think II wal
burning fast enough. so he blew on II.
II burned fast enough after that, and
thers he was.
There was n Belgian in one OF the
other wards. whom I got to know pretty
well, and he would often come over
and visit me. He asked many ques-
lions about Dlxmude. for he had had
relatives there. though he had lost
track OF them. He often tried to de-
scribe the house they had lived in, 80
that ] might tell him whether II was
still sta ding or not. but I could not
reminder the place he ST Ike Of. Dur
Ing our talks, he told me about many
atrocities. Some Of the things he told
me ! had heard before. and some of
them heard OF afterward. Here are
some things that he either saw or
heard OF from victims:
He said that when the Germans en-
tered the town Of st. Quentin. they
started firing into the windows as they
passed along. First, after they hnL oc-
cupied the town. they bnyoneted every
workingman they could find. Then
they took about half OF the children
that they could hnd. and killed them
with their musket butts. After this.
they marched the remainder OF the chill
dren and the women to the square,
where they had lined up a row OF male
citizens against a wall. The women
and children were told that II they
moved, they would all be shot. An
other nle OF men was brought ~. and
made to kneei in front OF the other
men against the wall.
The women and children began to
beg for the lives OF the men. and many
OF them were knocked In the head with
gun butts before they stopped.
Then the Germans fired ut the double
rank OF men. After three voileys, there
were e~lghty-four dead and twenty
wounded. Most OF the wounded they
then killed with axes, but somehow.
three or four escaped by hiding under
the bodies OF others and playing dead,
though the officers walked up and
down firing their revolyers into the
piles OF bodies.
The next day the Germans went
through the wine cellars, and shot all
the Inhabitants they found hiding
there. A lot Of people. who had taken
refuge In a factory over night, decided
TO come out with a white flag. They
we're allowed to think that the white
flag would he respected, but no sooner
were they all out than they were seized
and the women publicly violated In the
square, after which the men were shot.
A parnlytlc was shot as he sat In his
armchair. and a boy OF fourteen was
taken by the legs and pulled apart.
At n place, a man we tied by the
arms TO the ceiling of his room and set
nfre. His trunk was completely car.
bombed, but his head and arms were
unburned. At the same place. the
body of n hfteen-year-old boy was
found. pierced by more than twenty
bayonet thrusts. Other dead were
found with their hands still In the air,
leaning up against walls.
Al smother place the Germans
shelled the town for n day, and then