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Ask to see them. - DUCED, els, Tapes- "CHAMPAGNE BATTLE | INTENSELY EXCITING | American With Ambulance Corps Tells of His Experiences New York, Nov. 16.—The experien- ces of a number of Americans who were in midst of the great battle of Champagne last month when the French made their notable advance against the Germans, are related in a letter made public yesterday from Richard Norton, the organizer and commander of the American Motor Ambulance Corps. One point that is disclosed in Mr. Norton’s narrative is the fact that gas apparatus which was captured from the Germans, in the battle of Champagne was dated as far back as 1908, “thus showing,” he said, ‘“that seven years ago the Germans had de- cided to fight with gas.” The letter is dated at La Croiy, Champagne, October 14, and is ad- dressed to Elliot Norton, his brother in New York. He points out that it is just a year since the corps came into being, and that it has grown un- tii it now includes some sixty moter ambulances to which the St. John's Ambulance Corps and the Red Cross | societies render any assistance that is requested. Presentments of Battle, “For some weeks before the battle Legan we knew from all sorts of evi- dence that a big movement was on foot. The movements of troops by night and day, the great numbers >f aeroplanes and captive balloons and general rumor all pointed to this. It was not, however, until we were sent from the region of Amiens to this district that we knew where the at- tack was to be made. And it was not until we had been some three weeks stationed within a few miles of the line here that we had any ink- ling as to exactly when or at exact- ly what spots the blow would be de- livered. ‘“When, however, we were sent for- ward, our base became village. of La Croix, where two large hospitals had been erected. Seven of the am- bulances were stationed here, two others at Somme Tourbe, five at La Salle and finally two groups were sent to the woods, where we camped | out’in tents and dugouts and carried the wounded of the twenty-first and twenty-second divisions from trench- es Nos, 7 and 5, which had been dug for the purpose of bringing them out ot the firing line. Country Prepared. THE OLD RELIABLE ROYAL BAKING POWDER Ahsolutely Pure No ALum—No PHOSPHATE to suggest a picture of how packed it was with troops and munition trains. There was every sort and description. On the rolling land, over which the trenches cut in through the chalk soil ran like great white snakes, the bat- teries of every sized gun were in- numerable. I cannot tell you how many guns there were but in a radius of half a mile frcm where my am- bulance stood the first night there were at least a dozen batteries of vari- ous calibres, and they were no thicker there than anywhere else. We tried to sleep on the stretchers for an hour or two before dawn of the twenty- fifth but when you have a battery of 150-s coughing uninterruptedly with- in less than 100 yards of where you are resting, to say nothing of other guns to right and to left of you, one’s repose is decidedly syncopated. On the morning of the twenty-fifth the cannonade slackened and we knew afterwards that the three days’ work had battered the German lines into a shapeless mass and that the French infantry had made good the chance all summer of proving to the world their ability to beat the Germans. ‘“We are in no position to tell what troops did the best work but everyone knows that the Colonials under Gen- eral Marchand did splendidly, as did the Eleventh corps, which was along- side them. Only three or four incidents of the twelve hard days’ work stand out clearly in my mind. ‘The rest is but a hazy memory of indistinguish- able nights and days, cold and rainy, “The whole countryside had been most carefully pre d. One main road had been cut from St. Jean over the rolling chalk hills to the villages of Herlus and Mesnil, which were between the French batteries and the front trenches, and from which other roads ran further north. Besides this main road there were many tracks and trails over the chalk desert and these as the days passed became more and more clearly marked. But the instant the rain began to fall. which it did the first day of the battle, and continued off and on for many da: they became as near impassable as could be. It was not only the enormous amount of traffic which made driving difficult, but the slightest rain turns this chalky soil into a mixture so slippery that a car standing quiet on the crown of the road would not infrequently slide gently but surely into the gutter which was of course, deep in mud. At night we had to drive without lights, which increased our difficulty. Besides the making of the road men- tioned, narrow guage railways had been laid to carry munitions and other supplies to the fighting line and for miles the land was scored with deep-dug trenches, “It was on the twenty-fourth that we received final orders to move up to the lines and to station our cars at the field hospitals and the trench- es- We sorted out the cars and men according to their various capacities. I took one group on the night of the twenty-fourth up to the lines. The other trench group was in charge of Messrs. J. B. Barrington and J. H. Phelps. 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Wayne, Ind. lflouht ahout long rows of laden stretchers waiting to be put into the cars, wavering lines of less seriously wounded hobbling along to where we were waiting, sleepy hospital orderlies, dark under- ground chambers in which the doctors were sorting out and caring for the wounded, and an unceasing noise of rumbling wagons, whirring aero- planes, distant guns coughing and nearby ones crashing, shells bursting and bullets hissing. Out of this gen- eral jumble of memory one feature shines out steadily clear. It is of the doctors, patient, indefatigable, tender, encouraging and brave in the most perfect way they were everywhere in the forefront and seemingiy knew not what fatigue meant. If the nurses are the angels of this war these doctors they had been patiently waiting for | | i i ; Germans were are the apostles ‘who lift up this world and carry it to God.’ Drive to Herlus, “One of the incidents which stands out clearly in my mind is of a night- mare drive to Herlus. I received or- ders late one evening to take two cars to this village at 1 a. m. Not being able to find the divisional doctor to tell him that I considered it impossible to take ambulances by night, without lights, in the pouring rain over the shell-holed road which led to the vil- | lage, I had to try it. well with his car companied me. On my car I had George Tate, a most capable man. As he is a better driver than I am, he held the wheel while I (as so it seems now) spent my whole time wading through knee-deep mud trying, by the faint light of an electric lamp, to find the way round shell-holes and bogs, or pushing the car out of the gutter. It shows how difficult the journey was that to cover thé six kilometers there and back took us two and a half hours. We had the satisfaction of getting the wounded safely to the hos- Mr. Joseph Whit- pitals, and perhaps it was not entirely | low minded of us to be pleased next | morning when we heard that some French cars had refused to make the | same journey.” Mr. Norton tells at some length of having his ambulances stationed one day at Perthes, at a spot only forty yards distant from a battery which the shelling. The shells fell so close that the American am- bulance men took refuge in a dugout, | the entrance of which was filled with dirt and splinters from various ex- plosions. A horse-ambulance near by was blown up, and finally the Germans brought their gas shells into play. “We fixed masks on the wounded and on ourselves,” writes Mr. Norton, ‘“and after about two hours the Germans let up and we were able to take a long breath and express our feelings of the man who invented this dirty way of fighting. Nobody was really any the worse for the experience, though our | nd eyes troubled us for a day Norton was formerly the direc- American Classical school in Rome and the director of the American Archaeological mission at Cyrene, North Africa. An allusion to Mr. tor of the Whatever may be the objects for which other nations are fighting (and it has been charged that some of them do not know or are unwilling to avow their objects) there is no rance. She wants back her lost provinces of Alsace and Lor- [ Alsatian Children Are Pets In Bit of ““Lost” Province raine, most ent war a small stretch of recovered Alsace has rested in French possession. It was there that the accompanying picture of a French soldier petting little Alsatian girls, national ¢ tume, was made. in the war of 1870-1. Al- in and chauffeur ac- | ince the beginning of the pres- his former work is made in the fol- lowing picturesque paragraph in his letter: Pipe and Guns. “One cloudy morning after a very tiring night I was sitting on the road- side watching a rather heavy bombardment nearby and suddenly through the din rose the sweet clear notes of a shepherd’s pipes. It was the same reed pipe I have heard so often on the hills of Greece and Asia Minor, and the same sweetly-sad, age- old shepherd music telling of Pan and the Nymphs and the asphodel meadows where Youth lies buried. The piper was an ordinary piou-piou, & simple fantasin, “mon vieux Charles’ with knapsack on back, rifle slung over his shoulder and helmet on head strolling down to the valley of death a few hundred yards beyond. Nor is this the only music I have heard. One night a violin sounded among the | | vines which shelter our tents and I strolled over to find a blue-clad Or- pheus with bits of Chopin and Shu- bert and Beethoven. Such are some of the impressions of the battle seen from this side of the line. “Others 1 have found since the | main fight ceased, in the lines pre- | viou held by the Germans. I went | over some of their trenches the other ! day and have never seen anything so norrible. Although as prisoners have told us they knew they were to be | attacked they had no idea that the | attack would be anything so severe | as it was. Those I have talked to | said it was awful and that they were glad to be out of it. Their trenches were very elaborately constructed, many of the dugouts being fitted up with considerable furniture, the dwel- lers evidently having no notion they would be hurriedly evicted. After the bombardment there was nothing left of all this careful work. The whole earth was torn to pieces. It looked as though some drunken giant had driven his giant plough over the land. In the midst of an utterly indescrib- able medley of torn wire, broken wagons and upheaved timbers, vawned here and there chasms like | the craters of small volcanoes where mines had been exploded. It wasan ashen gray world distorted with the spasms of death—like a scene in the moon. Gas Machines, In the notice given out by the French authorities of the guns and erms ammunition taken from the | Germans, no mention has been made of certain gas machines that were taken. Mr. Norton says in his letter: “These were of two sorts, one for the production of gas, the other to counteract its effects. The latter were rather elaborate and heavy but very cffective instruments consisting of two main parts; one to slip over the head protecting the eyes and clipping the | hardest Distinctive Model COATS of mixture and novelty fabrics, fur trimmed .........olde ik i B RgS Mo oo COATS of broadtail cloth in belted models ..+ ning much distinction lar and cuffs .... 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There was a white chalk road between black pine trees, and on it, moving towards us were two groups of sruffling men, a blood red sunset at their backs, “Our car slowed down to pass be- tween them, but when we saw, we stopped—and let them pass. “On one side moved a muddy blood stained company where blue clad figures drooped in saddles, or clung with both hands to a comrade's stirrup leather. I saw a broken nose, the other an arrangement of | bags and bottles containing oxygen | which the wearer | tube held in the mouth. There were several forms of these apparatuses hut the most interesting point to note about them is that one had stamped upon it the words: ‘Type of 1914— céeveloped from type of 1912, de- veloped from type of 1908, thus sho: ing that seven years ago the Germa had decided to fight with gas.” inhaled through a ! sword and empty earbine holsters, and I saw too, eyes glazed with fatigue | that stared from dead white faces. | On the other passed a second com- | pany, muddy and blood-stained like the first, but here were gray-clad | figures staggering in step, the stronger with their arms around their com- rades. I saw the ribbon of the Iron Cross, and I saw again eyes glazed with fatigue that stared from dead white faces, Among those who shared exper ences with Mr. Norton, in the battle of Champagne were W. P, New York, a graduate of Ya]e.l | William R. Berry, of Philadelphia, a | graduate of Princeton, Messrs, Coats- worth and Schribner of Buffalo, N. Y.; Frederick Morgan, a Massachusetts man and a graduate of Harvard, and several other American ‘young men, | mostly college graduates. In addi- tion to Barrington and Phelps, whose place of residence is not known, Mr. Norton mentioned in his letter that “the two Whitwells, the two Phelps, | Clyde, Jr., | “So passed us by a remnant of the Hussars' charge, and a group of Ger- man prisoners. Victors and Van- quished—with only the white road Petween them.” LARGER WHEAT CROPS. Washington, Nov. 15.—Wheat pro- duction in twenty countries, which or- dinarily produce eighty per cent. of the world’s crop, is placed at 3,793,- 000,000 bushels by the department of agriculture from preliminary official estimates. That is an increase of 560,000,000 bushels over crops in those countbies, 000,000 bushels mere than 1 previous high record, The includes the Amerigan 1,0 bushel crop. RED CROSS OFFI Besides William F. 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