Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 15, Number 214, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1917 — Page 2

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A MOTOR DRIVER With French Ambulance Unit in Field Tells of His Experiences. IRITZ’ CUTE HABITS Os Dropping Gas Bombs and Shelling Roads Very Disgusting to DriversThe following wonderful paragraphs from a letter from Mr. Herbert G. Lavender, associate editor of the Millinery Trade Review, now an ambulance driver at the French front, written to Mr. Allen, editor of that 1 i>uper. are reprinted through the 1 courtesy of Mrs. Kate Hurdg, well known milliner of this city: "October 2, 1917. "Dear Mr. Allen: •'This is the first time since 1 arrived here that I have had a fair j chance to sit down and try to collect i thoughts to compose a letter with j Frt>m the first it has been active. ‘ Some rail us lucky, but after all it is one's personal feeling in the matter that counts. 1 think we were, for what we have seen and been through In i his short month has inspired us for the work ahead which is hoped, down to the lowliest 'poilu,' will be he last strand that will break the autocracy and make the world safe from individual ambitions. “Our voyage over wus quite uneventful. although three times our hip was sighted hut escaped. "The - way we work here is: This • ctiou covers lor rather did. as we don't know what we are going to do next) three front posts next to the front line. Each man stays twentyfour hours there and carries his wounded back to different hospitals which specialize op their individual cases. The next twenty-four hours are spent on evacuating these hospitals and then you go to the next post and so on until you have completed your posts, then you are allowed a day in washing and repairing your car. which is to your advantage. FV>r when you need it. you usually need it bad. Fritz has a cute habit of helling roads as well as churches over here. The work is interesting I and highly speculative. You are well j fed and usually sleep in jrour own idotlus (with a gas-mask in easy ; reach i in anything from a dug-out to ! an old chateau. I*"iiMVd yet to find | out whether I would rather be gased jor suffocated in a mask. Tht two attacks I have been htrough were not j severe or else l was new at the game. ‘ You seldom hear any one talk of how j severe any attack is, unless excap- • tionally so, and nobody ever asks.” The following are paragraphs taken at random from letters received at various times: "September 12. 1917. “We have pulled up country' for two weeks' intensive training—l got tnv ambulance the day we left. “We have ben here a week now and most of the day is put in with drills and road work. “We were mustered into federal service this morning so that now we are a part of the expeditionary force in France. The enlistment papers

are for the duration of the war—not six months as formerly. Out of fifty men who crossed with me. thirty-sev-en were accepted, four rejected and two held fur further examination nml enlisted In other branches of the service. “We are stationed at an old mill in the valley of the Marne, a beautiful section of France. J am connected with the French artillery. Tlie food is good, but there is not always enough of it. "Have just come in from a practice drive. After one of these rides we come in covered with a fine powdery dust. I lie in bed, if such it can be called, at 10 o'clock each night and try to realize that It is only 5 o'clock in New York and marvel at the difference between this life and that. We rise at 6 a. ra.; roll call at 6:30; breakfast at 7—(chocolate, that's Ml); drill 8-9; driving 9-11; lunch 11:30: back to driving again at 1:30; drift 4-6; supper 6:30; bed 9; taps 9:30. The drill commands are all given in French by French officers. The road work usually consists of getting a car out of a hole without stalling the engine. The French roads all have ditches on either side, so you see this is important. We also practice driving around logs so plac'd that one has to use his head in driving so that the car will not be upset. It Is exceedingly interesting but rather difficult. 1 thought 1 knew tow to drive pretty well when 1 arrived. but believe me, when I am 'hrough here I shall know.

"I am writing this in an old church ibout a quarter of a mile from the 'rent where another fellow and myself are stationed for two days. Then we change and get repose for a day about five miles away and then go back to ambulance duty. This means aking the wounded from one hospitil to another and back to the front again. As 1 sit huddled up in a dugaut sometimes I get thinking of being over here away from all that was my life and I realize that 1 simply had to come. It would of been yellow of me not to. "September 14. “Wo came down here from our little dug-out behind the lines this morning. It has been pouring rain all day and there is a car inspection tomorrow. Mine is covered with dust and I am due at another post at 10 o’clock, so 1 will have to go some. I missed the chance of my life yesterday to get the eroix de guerre. It was my turn to answer a call and the fellow I was with (we always travel out to the front in pairs) asked me as a favor to take his car down. As I am new in this section, I did not realize the full meaning of his request, agreed to oblige him and went on my way. The other fellow then answered my call—to a battery under a heavy fire—and has since received his citation. “You may bet I won't be so obliging or so thick next time! I have been under fire quite some, but to be honored with the cross you must be seen to do something by a captain or superior officer. “There is not much to write about that tile censor will not throw away. They do not blot out indiscreet paragraphs like the English do, but destroy the whole letter.

“I don't seem to get on very quickly with the language. They all seem to speak so fast. However, there is one consolation, they don’t speak English any better than I can French. "Had the curious experience the other day.—a French lieutenant came up to me and started what 1 thought was a most polite conversation about nothing of importance, and all of a suaden a shell landed about thirty feet away from where we stood. He jumped quickly down a hole and fortunately 1 got a tree In front of me! I afterwards found out that he was trying to warn me that I was in danger. but he was so polite about it. 1 certainly didn't reaiize the impor- j tance of his message. Incidentally 1 have the tip of the time the first shell I ever saw explode—it was ray first day out and came rather too close for comfort. When you sec them, they are close, for you hear them all the time. “The thing which 1 will probably remember most about this trip will be the night we swore allegiance to the United States. Picture an old ruined barn built iu 1500 in the ruidsi of a fertile valley and about 11:20 at night, with (he moon shining through the holes in the roof. A table of rough wood with three lanterns on it at one end and thirty-seven men with their right hands raised in that dim j iignt. “You have to see this wonderful old country to appreciate it. The nearest town to ua is about four and ( a half miles away. “1 feel very grateful to everybody over there for their sentiments. We are only allowed to write three letters a week, so as much as l wapt to answer all the letters I get, I cannot. “Strange that it all seems so familiar and natural to me. 1 have the feeling that 1 have either done al! this before, or am fulfilling a long

given promise. ' "In this life you don't seem to be ever satisfied. On the 'Espngne' we wanted to be here, and here we want something else. They are shelling the road ahend of us. I suppose because we shelled theirs all day yesterday. I came down through the thick of it this morning end did not even notice it, although you do hear, that Incessant whine. "Some of the territorial regiments are moving back for repose and it is pathetic to hear their stories. Most ' of them are or more 1 years old. Early this morning part of Pershing's staff swept through a town where we staked last night, and they certainly looked good. Jut t now : i heard u big gun. over in the woods dose by. where it landed, is a puff of smoke. The rapping I hear like a j person hammering a loose boat'd is a machine gun crew. “They are having a violent bombardment here at present and it seems strange to sit calmly and write letters. This afternoon if they j gain a quarter of a mile, we will have to work like Trojans carrying the price of their conquest, and at night they will celebrate—yet here I, sit with a tin derby on —waiting for a call or a—"Just stopped a moment to see some terribly big guns tear through this town on trucks with differentials.) fore as well as after. Everything over here goes at breakneck speed and our ambulances have right of way so you can imagine 'the pace. With they would adopt that plan in the United States.

“It's very difficult to get baths here. The only day we can get a hot bath is Sunday—then you have to sign a petition and send it to the chief of police. As there are no facilities for bathing here and as it has been terribly hard here lately, I managed to get a dousing by standing and having streams of tepid water thrown over me. It could not exactly be likened to a shower as there wasn’t enough water, but it was better than nothing and a bit warmer than the ice water we are glad to set to wash in each morning. “We are out here all alone tonight at a new post Just on the edge of a big forest. Usually there are two of us. hut to this post only one is assigned. I suppose you wonder how 1 am getting on with the French language. Well, I am not. It seems 3trange to eat and be with a lot of people and not have the remotest idea what they are talking about. It makes it doubly lonesome. We met some American soldiers on one of our trips today, and it certainly was good to talk *« some of *y own people again. They eould not tell me much, however, in fact 1 got more news from an old copy of the New York times dated March 21. than I have here. You see we are living it here and our work is sectional, so we really do not know what is going on elsewhere. 1 am sitting in my ambulance waiting for a call. Waiting for some one to get hit, think of it, and knowing full well every time I have to move it is someone’s misfortune. "The great event here is when the mail comes in, and you may believe it is pretty blue when there are no letters.

, “Last night I sat on the steps of an j abei or trench and off in the woods : I could see ghostly figures moving silently up from the front. Here and . there a moonbeam would flash on , steel —on a helmet or gunbarrel— it ■ was wonderful but very empty. All j day big guns have come thundering ,' past. “One show is over—it was, I know , in all the New York papers, and it . was some show, although 1 only got in on the tail end of it. The next one is in the making. “Fritz dropped a few gas shells yesterday, but today has been comjparatively quiet. I am writing this sitting in my ambulance. | “1 had thougiit I would jot ideas down as they came to me from time to tin»s, but find it isn’t u jjoocl tiling to do as immediately it seems to arouse suspicion. “This letter met with a sudden interruption yesterday. Fritz got suddenly busy and so I was kept busy rolling all day. It is 6:20 now and it’s been a hard day, going fast and furious with my wounded. I am all gray with powder and tired, so I cannot write—besides the mail is going out. j “We are about sixty miles from Paris and I expect when we move it will be to Verdun. ! “Once again we have moved. This time we are well in the champagne country. It is the first time 1 ever drove in convoy; that is one car behind another. In this fashion wo tring out for over a mile with ohr twenty-five cars, three motor trucks and kitchen. Wc drive at the rate of eight miles an hour and get covered with mud and dirt. Fritz has away

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of shelling roads, especially at such times as these. Also there are gas charges to add to the thrills, making these wonderful nights a blasphemy. It is not nice to get up around 3 or 4 o'clock and suffocate in a gas mask as well as freeze—for believe me the mornings are cold. On this march we have been sleeping in tents on stretchers instead of in the car. If you could ever see the things we carry in that car you would not blame me for taking a chance in the tent. “It is funny what simple things place us here. 1 wish i could answer all the letters I receive from the trade for 1 certainly am grateful for them, but there is so little one can say. You can't talk about this thing —it's unbelievable. 1 told an American soldier of something I actually saw and I could tell by the expression of his face that he did not believe me—so how can I make those at home see it? “How can any one stay at home at a time like this? If you could onlyknow of the almost shapeless masses of humanity we sometimes carry, and the wonderful spirit of these people, of the noble French women who have given their sons, their husbands and lost all! No man couid stay at home if he knew. It is not pleasant to go unwashed, sleep In'dirty stables, hovels. or crawl in holes in the ground. Does any one think I like it? Do they think to be over here and not producing makes me enjoy it more?”

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