Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1941 — Page 9

FRIDAY, DEC. 26, 1941

RAW DAMP CHILLS

BONES OF

Chinese Soldiers ™ on n Beds in in Same Soiled Uniforms

WOUNDED

They Wore in Fighting; Scarcely a One

Stretches

Out Flat.

This article by Leland Stowe was airmailed prior to his departure from Chungking for Rangoon and other points of southeast Asia.

By LELAND AND STOWE Copyright, 1841, hy The Indianapolis Times and The New York Tribune, Ine,

CHUNGKING, Dec. 1.—The hospital used to be a facso the wards are bleak barnlike affairs with beamed

tory,

ceilings go high it would be a terrific expense to heat the

rooms—even if they did have

pital had any kind of heating—which, of course, it hasn’ t| river every night and blows

"The fog settles low over the in over the cots. In this part] of Szechuan Province the cold] is that damp raw kind that) gnaws right through to the) marrow of your bones and then stays there.

If you've spent a few nights any- | where in uan in November vou know what these gaping windowframes mean, especially being just 100 feet or so above the river. | Even so, this iS supposed to be one] of China's better hospitals and it's! true that things | look remarkably clean, for anywhere east of Suez, anyhow, and making al- | lowance for war time's hygienic handicaps on top of that. But we don’t waste much time looking at the floors. The men in the cots all lie hud- i dled up. There's Mr. Stowe | something peculiar about them. Scarcely a single one lies flat and| &retched straight out, and usually | a good many wounded somehow | manage to do that. Most of these youngsters have their legs drawn up, if they can move them at all, hd the dismal gray sheets pulled) md their humped shoulders. | “But some are in a half-sitting posture, It's taken a good while to register, but at last the thing seeps) home—the thing that’s all wrong) with this hospital ward, I mean. | After all, I've seen wounded sol- | diers in the four corners of Europe; | but not until now I've never seen injured men, hundreds of miles be-| hind the front lines, who had to remain in bed with their clothes on— with the same worn soiled uniforms in which they were carried back, one or several weeks ago, We look around, down one row of cots and up another row. They are all wearing their uniforms—as much as injuries will al-| low—and most of them have that huddled posture which contorts human bodies which have forgotten what real warmth feels like.

Ne Woolen Blankets

We've been told that Rt Si is real. Iv quite a good “for ware time China.” Neve we can't discover a single woolén blanket in it. Some of the cots have coverlets made by sewing cotton batting] inside two sheets or some other thin| material. These contraptions pass for blankets, but feeling one is

| talk about that.

windowpanes, and if the hos-

inot think about it, either. In our kind of a world, thinking is pretty | bad. Over here an Army interne, or male nurse, is pulling strips of yel-

lowed skin or festered matter from |S)

the stomach and thighs of another youngster, He's one of the worst |gas cases—that is, one of 10 sur|vivors out of the 2 gas-burned sol-

|diers they tried to bring back from

the Ichang front. I said “gas cases.” Well the American Army surgeon who is with us examines the wounds of these men very carefuly, and he says, “it looks very much like mustard.” If it’s not mustard he can't figure out what would cause burns like these.

Faces Are Grave The orderly or interne, whichever

{he is, is dressing wounds with his jown left hand wrapped in band-

ages. He does wonders with his lgood right hand, which is amaslingly deft and gentle, The soldier

doesn’t make a sound, but his forehead is beaded with perspiration. They are all very quiet, as they lie huddled on their cots, and most of their faces are very grave, What makes it worse is the fact that we've committed the unfor|Sivaie sin. They don’t know it, and probably don't expect it. Just the same we forgot to bring cig|arets. Souls have gone to perdition for lesser crimes that that. What would a cigaret mean to you if {you'd been in a so-called hospital's cot, without a blanket, with your clothes on, for two or three or four] weeks Better not think very much about; that, either, Maybe it could have

Me. said just a little bit different- |

“Father, forgive them, for they A, not what they have.”

APARTMENT BURNS 5 DIE, EIGHT ESCA

HILLSIDE, Md, Dec. 26 (U. P).— Five persons perished here yesterday when fire destroyed a two-story apartment house, The victims were Mrs. Ira May Faber, 36; her three children, Harry, 10; Eugene, 2, and Kenneth, 8 months, and Frank A. Hanson, 54, Mrs. Faber’s father.

Maybe we'd better

enough to give you a chill

And: Eight persons escaped.

ALLIED OUTLOOK BETTER THAN '17

24 Years Ago This Date the Germans Seemed Destined For Final Victory.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26-—The closing days of 1941 find the outlook for the United States, Great Britain and their friends somewhat brighter than on the same days of 1917. Today, at the White House, President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, Lord Beaverbrook and their staffs are celebrating th e year-end by planning an all-out war on Hitler and his stooges. And the betting is they will amply sueceed

Twenty-four years ago the teutonic coalition and everywhere encamped on Allied soil — pretty much as it is today. And a German victory seemed just around the corner. The Austro-Germans had just smashed the Italians on the Isongo. | Russia had been knocked out. All| that remained to do in the Rast] wae to force the helpless Bolsheviks to sign on the dot line—as pretty soon they did. Rumania had been given the coup de grace at Bucha-

"Only One Front Held

Only the Western Front remained to be cracked and Marshals Ludendorff and von Hindenburg were getting ready to do that. Already they

were planning to withdraw troops and material from the East, con-

centrate all available forces against the French, British, Americans and their Allies in the West, order the Bulgarians to take care of the sideshow in Macedonia, and have the Austrians finish off Italy. America had entered the war by ithis time, but the Germans were] | discounting them. It would take | six months to a year for the Amerjcans to count in the battle and the general staff formally pledged itself to win the war within four to six months. The Americans, therefore, would arrive too late. Meanwhile, the British were unable to rake up any appreciable | number of new recruits, They were already making use of "bantams.” las the misfits and undersized were called. Then there was the chronic irish trouble. In France, the Government seemed to be at the end of its rope. There was unrest at home | and trouble at the front, where the morale of certain units was far from brilliant, German Outlook Bright Almost any way she looked, Germany's future seemed filled with promise. Her vista stretched all the way: from Lapland to Turkey and from the Straits of Dover to the Caspian Sea. Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Rumania, Serbia,’ Montenegro and the Ukraine seemed definitely tagged as vassal states under the greater German empire. |

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