Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1918 — SAVING THE INJURED [ARTICLE]

SAVING THE INJURED

Red Cross Is Doing Heroic Work in France. Georgia Soldier Says, “They All Worked Like Dogs in That Hell Out There.” Washington.—“ Test the nerve of those Americans,” evidently was the order given to the German soldiers facing the sector held by our boys in France, and gas shells andvaU other methods were used. Completely repulsed as the Germans were, the test must have been anything but reassuring to them! A correspondent talked with some of the American soldiers wounded in the attack. One youth, whose home is in Savannah, Ga.,- and who looked to be not more than eighteen years old, made the following highly complimentary reference to the American Bed Cross stretcher-bearers and ambulance iriven: .

“I’ve sure got to hand it to those men with the Red Cross on their arms. They all worked like dogs in that hell out there. They seemed to have but one idea —to do their duty—and apparently cared nothing for their own lives while doing it. They were game right to the core.” In this connection it may be said that there are a certain number of men who wear the Red Cross whose names are on the casualty list. If anyone has thought that a Red Cross worker goes out on a battlefield only after the firing has ceased and brings in the wounded, this statement by a soldier will correct the wrong impression. Stretcher-bearers work under fire—and the Germans have not hesitated to fire upon Red Cross workers. Tfie knowledge that the,Red Cross workers will be at his side almost as quickly as he falls wounded, to take him to the first-aid station and subsequently to the hospitals, has given great comfort to the American troops.