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In a World That Is Shaken by an Endless Concussion
Robert A. Drake, Driver of Ambulance on
French Front, Tells of Battle Lines Where
Blasts Tear Men and Materials Apart,
By ROBERT A. DRAKE,
Winner of French War Cross.
Kven in the deep bomb-proof Aug
outs we could feel distinct jars when
an “arrivee” (a (German shell) hit the
ground, whether it exploded or not,
‘When the shells did explode, the jar
was so violent that dirt and rocks
erumbled down on us, and often rain
ed on the blankets of the wounded in
showers of gravel and debris,
In the very decp dugout of Ferme
Hemeret, despite its well trussed roof,
huge pleces of sandstone often be
came dislodged, and whenever | re
turned to the place after being else
where for a few days | obscrved new
hig cracks in the 30-foot crust of
ecarth above.
At St. Glls, where big shells ended
thelr trip from “Germany” in a fleid
rbout 200 yards from the road where
my car was, the heavy ambulance
was shocked by each thud so that
Ihe stretoher-racks rattled. And when
1 saw the frame of another man's
ambulance racked completely out of
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true, my respect for the effect of
mere concussion became intense.
The respect was changed almost to
fear after 1 saw floor boards fastened
down with two-inch screws ripped up
completely by the alr-compression
from a shell. Though not the tinlest
fragment touched that car, yet both
its side doors were blown clean off.
Rip Flagg's ambulance had the
sheet-metal of its hood battered Into
dents as {f it had peen vanged by a
huge hammer-blow, That same con
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was blown away so far that we never
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After wlmeulng a few examples
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Life amid this endless concussion
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The shrieks of the shells made a con
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The sound was unforgettable after it
had been heard a few times yet it
was difficult to reproduce after one
had been away from the front for
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‘the differing sounds made by shells of
different sizes and character,
One of our stations as in a right
angled corner of the line, cloge to the
trenches, with the Germans firing
from three sides, The noise was like
that of a fierce north gale sweeping
through trees and through the cracks
in a house, There were curlous
sounds of tearing and ripping In the
alr that approached untl), for an
inastant, the shells sesmed surely to
be driving straight for the dugout.
In another instant we heard the noises
whimpering away overhead.
We timed the courses of shells
often. The time from the first dull
booin of the German gun to the crash
that terminated the whist'e of lis
shell’'s flight was nearly the same al
ways for each variety of shell shriek
~~twenty, twenty-one and twenty
three seconds, according to the kind
of shell. dhort as the time was, it
seemed enormously long, for one
could not know if the shell would
land half a mile away or within half
a yard,
Waiting for Explosicns.
During such tense perlods of wait
ing, men’'s minds became so fixed that
they could not, for the moment, re
member even the names of their
comrades. | saw that the strain had
its effect even on the set, sober, un
smiling faces of the silent stretcher
bearers,
Some of the Americans used to
laugh nervously at first. They soon
stopped, as the undefined feur grew
on them.
A curious thing was when we were
outside, shelteriug with our ambu
lances between walls in the open.
'On such occasions the stretcher
bearers often stood at the entrance
of the dugout, l!fting their arms to
signal the coming of shells, [t was
strangely as if the flying shrieks
were some unearthly music, and the
betrers were leading the orchestra.
Sometimes the whines of the shells
decreased as they came nearer. Then
would could gee the Frenchmen hesi
tate whether to dive for the dugout or
not. Another decreasing whistle and
one would say in relief: “Ah! Farther
away!” And then, often, a shrick
wou.d burst overhead and everybody
plunged madly for the cave.
In intervals between bombardments
we usually wrote letters, for nobody
wanted to talk, While the silence
lasted, the scratching of pens seemed
immensely loud. Then, all at once,
the tearing sound would break the
sllence. The shadowy forms of the
bearers cringed unconsciously in an
tielpation of the explosion, accus
tomed though they were to the noise.
Nearer and nearer fell the shells till
there were whistlings that made us
verily believe that the next shell must
hurat into the place.
. "“Volla!” sald a stretcher-bearer
sitting on the bench beside a boy with
# broken arm, Our hearts stopped
beating for two or three seconds.
Ancther scream, still nearer, secemed
to wlf)e out our very existence, An
lother “It's nearer!” muttered one.
It was. It woke up a chap who had
been snoring in a corner, and it took
a real nolse to stir him!
“A dud!” exclaimed my partner. “It
hit In the marsh down by the cross
roads!” (A “dud” is a shell that fails
to explode.)
When the storm of shells seemed
to have lessened greatly, I tried to
finlsh a letter by inserting the word
“Bang!” every time I heard an ar
rivee. “You can tell how often the
shells are coming In,” I wrote, “by
reading these words at a moderate
rate, ganfl and seeing how long it
‘takes, you, Bang! between bangs. But
I'm afraid I'm not writing much else
than Bang! Bang! Bang'!"™ I conclud
ed,
In the midst of it two stretcher
bearers came in empty-handed from
the trenches. They were panting. As
one of them sat down on the lowest
steps and removed his steel helmet,
we could see the perspiration drip
ping from his glistening brow. “To
day is the hottest one for shells since
two months!” said the other, snatch
ing his breath between words. “Bar
mg.e everywhere.”
he flames of the candles and the
gasoline lamps flickered wildly in
the dugouts, even when the shells
exploded far away. In the open, the
blasts caused dozens of varying dis
asters. The heavy glass of my au
tomobile headlights were insufficient
to withstand the forec of the com
pressed air. Finally the window in
‘my ambulance was shattered, utter-
L\; wholly, blasted into a thousand
ts.
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it was stretched, it bellied like a sall
whenever an arrivee burst anywhere
‘near by,
If we were near a French battery
when It began to play, like a gigantic
bunch of vast firecrackers all golng
off together, the cars trembled, and
the eloth screens, in pariicular, shiv
ered as If they had palsy.
| Curious Tricks on ‘orvu.
- There were some humorous effects
too, of the continuous nervous ten
sion. Bometimes, when slecping in a
dugout on a quiet night, the sudden
‘buzz of a big blue-bottle fly was
enough to startle men out of a doze,
Occastonally 1 awoke tn the alarming
belles that a fast Austrian ‘44" was
coming right in at the door, only to
discover that it was somebody snor
ing.
~ On such quiet nights we were be
ing startled continually by the disgnt
rumble of army supply wagons or the
roar of a motorecycle. If the day had
been a particularly hard one, and
‘men's nerves were on edge, the mere
rustle of a man turning over in his
blankets, or the falling of a few
crumbs of earth, brought sleepers up
}smndlng. .
~ One day I bored a hole in the front
of my steel helmet so that 1 could
hang it up on a nall. I was driving
netx day toward Cuissy when 1 heard
the shriek of a tremendous shcll so
close that I threw myself flat. The
helmet fell off, and the shriek stopped
instantly. I plcked the helmet up to
put it on and heard the shriek again,
Ihut this time It was strangely faint.
Then I discovered that the breeze
iwhistllng through the tiny atf)erture
right above my head had made such
a perfect imitation of an oncoming
‘shell that even a veteran might have
' been deceived.
) “8hell” Noise Deceptive.
One night in the dugout in Vailly
’I sat up in bed listening to a most
peculiar shriek coming from # far, and
coming closer and closer. “fhat's a
funny one!” sald I, in a low voice to
the man next to me, old “Fylar Tuck.”
“What's a funny one?’ asked he,
“That shell,” said 1. “Pst! There it
s again!”
“Shell!” sald he disgusted. “It's
me, blowing up my air-plilow! The
damn thing leaks so I have to wake
up every few hours to pump it.”
When a man was in the open, the
first loud whistle of a shell was, ac
cording to unwritten law, the signal
for that man to hurl himself into the
nearest dugout. That is, If he was
not driving. A driver on the road
was not to stop. Anybody who was
merely killing time obeyed the rule
faithfully. Sometimes the French
men were somewhat careiess and in
different, but usually they could find
a dugout even more quickly than we
Americans did.
“l know where there are some
tralned Frenchmen who can dodge
shells!” Paul Greene said to me one
day after a trip to Ferme Hemeret.
“l was standing In the doorway of
the dusout when a shrapnel shell
screamed overhead, I never heard it
explode. How could 1? Eight flying
Frenchmen sailed into my stomach on
their way into the dugout, and I fell
down thirty steps underneath them!”
If the air was perfectly gquiet the
}shell could be heard In plenty of
time to get safely under cover, but {f
auto trucks or other heavy vehicles
were golng over rough roads near by
the warning shriek often was not
keard til it was too late to run.
Men fell so in the habit of listen
ing, that even on quiet days a man
who spoke too loudly was often told
to “shut up,” for fear that his voice
rwould prevent his comrades from
hearing the deadly warning. There
was good excuse for this objection to
‘undue tall. One night when every
‘body was talking in one dugout a
'shell shriek . was unheard, and the
first thing we knew was that a thick
‘stone wall near by was brought down
'with a rush and a plece of the shel
‘came into the dugout and hit the
chef’s dishpan.
The French battery men were so
expert at ‘‘reading” shell sounds that
they covld actually tell whether or
} not a shell was golng to explode while
it was still in the ailr. Often when I
was ducking for cover the gunners
‘would stand calmly in the open, smil
ing. "“No good,” they would say-—and,
sure cnough, when that shell landed
no explosion followed.
The next moment, however, they
might yell, “Watch out!” when a shell
whistle not half so loud as the first
one came along overhead. Instantly
the whole crowd would tumble in a
mass into their bomb-proof. And up
in the air and around there would be
a ripping shower of fragments,
“How do you know?" I asked.
“Easy!" they answe-ed. “The shells
thta rarely explode are those that salil
end over end; and the whistle they
make {s different from the others.”
Life or Death May Depend.
It was important to be' able to
“read’ shell, for often the only warn
ing of gas was from the sound made
by the gas shell. There was an odor
less gas used by the Germans, and
unless one. was aware of the noise
made by such a shell one had no wav
if be'ng prepared. So we all learned
car¢fully that the gas shells did not
explode with a loud bang! but cr;pked
open with a thudding sound much like
that of a dud. |
One most important function of|
shrieks was the stimulating effect,
that they had on the lethargy that
affected many of the French aoldlers.‘
“It the boches only knew what a|
hurry-up effect these shells have on,
the munition trains,” said one Wally |
one day, “I bet they wouldn't shell|
the railroads at all!™
“Fght!” said another chu.g. “Those
French wouldn't fight half so well
without shell screams to spur them
on. Listen to those drivers travel!"
And the teamsters certainly did travel
when they got near a danger zone.
1 discovered a curious bit of psy
chology connected with shell. If a
shell scream began to approach, and
just one man in a crowd started on
a run for the dugout, everybody else
piled in behind him instantly. But
often, even when a shell was very
close, If nobody started to run, the
whole erowd stayed out in the open.
We did not -elish assignments to
posts near the French batteries. This
was not primarily because the Ger
mans shelled such localit'es more. It!
was becanse the ceaseless noise andi
the concussions were so disagreeatle.
In time 1 grew to hate the roar of the
gun—a hatred of the noise as if it
were something horrible and pesoni
flel. It was especially hard to bear!
when one was so tired out that his
nerves were “panicky.” At such times
the Insistent bellows of the war's ar
tificla) thunder produced effects that
in the end nearly nauseated men,
TLoneliness made the noises all but
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unendurable. At times, when a man
had to wait in some solitary spot, he
would get into a condition that made
him almost cut and run—not fom
fear, but merely for the sake of reach
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underground dressing stations it was
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of us. “It would be hell up here for
one fellow alone!" said Phil Fisher
to me one depressing evening, near
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}ormsF-Advenisement. l
Ostel, We looked around at the si
lent st-etcher vearers, who sat along
the wall, and we both agreed that
their gompany was worse than none
, at all.
At home ! never had regarded a
| thunderstorm as a pleasant thing. In
France, after hea.ing the roll of the
cannon for weeks at a time, the sud
den crash of genulne thunder was
such a relief as to be more than wel
come.
After a while we worked out a sort
of human barometer for gauging the
shell weather when we approached an
underg.ound dressing station near the
front. It was like this:
Shell Weather—Fine. Indlcations
—Frenchmen walking about calmly
and showing grand dlll’fig‘l‘d for
dugouts. Interpretation—Plenty of
time to turn car around and trig
wheels.
Shell Weather—Stormy. Indications
—Utter absence of Frenchmen or a
| few worried-looking ones hunting
| Augouts in crouched attitudes. Inter
lpretation-—Never mind turning your
car. Drive for dugeut at top speed.
Problems in Shell Noises.
There are many questions in re
| gard to shell noises that caused hours
| of heated but always fruitless discus
slon. One question was: Why does
lthe whine of some shells decrease in
volume with its approach, and vice
versa if it was due to overshoot the
target? Most of the men of our sec
tion, however, held that it was all a
question of whether or not the shell
| traveled swiftly enough to outdis
| tance its own noise.
“Sound doesn't go so very fast’
!uld one, “and it's perfectly possible
| for a shell to beat its own scream.”
| Another argument that kept the
' section stirred up was caused by the
| allegation that the Germans had some
| shells that had two explosive effects,
| “Pap"” was a leading exponent ot this
| theory. ‘‘One explosion,” said he, oc
curs while it is still in the alr. The
second one occurs when it strikes. So
you-get a combination of shrapnel and
c:dinary explosive shell in one.”
“Don't you bellieve it,” objected Pe
| tey, who represented the skeptics.
!“What you think is a double explo
sion is nothing but the echo es the
| noise!”
I Another question that kept us
awake was the stock inquiry: “Does
|a heavy bombardment cause rain
| fall ?”
[ “Whenever the French attack it
| rains,”” was a regular saying. One
| heard it again and again. I noted
'that many times it was true.
’ “But it doesn’t raln when the boches
attack,” sald an iconoclast one night,
triumphantly.
The thing that caused the most in
tensely personal inte.est was the
army slogan about the shells: “You
don't hear the one that hits you!”
Strangely enough, pone of our scien
tists wanted to make a personal ex
| perl!ment to test the truth of the the
ory
The noises from the French bat
terles were inflnite in variety accord
ing to the nature of thelr surround
ings and to their proximity. In one
place the famous 75's were in a huge
battery at the bottom of a natural
amphitheater., The high bluffs that
surrounded it echoed the sharp,
crashing reports of the guns with
such a strange acoustic result that
many times it was recogmnized by us
all as being ldentical with the echo
ing of the trap guns near the Harvard
Standium in Cambridge. The reason
vag the same. The sound across the
sea was caused by the echoes from a
decorative iron fence, instead of, as‘
in France bx shell-pitted hill tops. |
Gunfiashes at Night Worse,
On the road to Ostel the 75's were
in a battery so near the places where
‘we drove that they not only shook
the cars up and damaged them, as al
ready told, but they fooled us curious
ly. On the way to the Ostel poste
one day. Tommy, my mate, yelled:
“Blow-out!” I, too, was sure that I
had heard the sharp “plop!” of a
bursting tire; and I had the digust
ln* vision of running a couple of
miles on the “flat,” for I hap not the
slightest desire to stop and 'make re
pairs where we were. That particu
lar part of the road was being care
fully observed just then from three
German balloons!
Tommy looked at the wheels on his
side quickly and sang out’ “All right
here!” He steadied the steering
wheel, and 1 looked at my side. The
tires were intact.
“Phap!” the sound came again. Then
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we knew what it was. It wag a 75
firing from a battery directly behind
the car,
Bad as the noise was, there were
times when the flashes were even
worse for nerves. It was worse al
night, and especially if the night was
very black. Driving along a road
near the front then (with all lights
out, of course) the blinding flashes
from guns near and far made eye
sight simply nonexistent. The dark
ness was all the more impenetrable
for these momentary, dazzling flashes.
One could do nothing except just steer
unseeing into the black pocket. Oc
casionally, if the road happ. ned to be
in front of a battery, the shells would
pass not 50 feet overhead. The.. we
had blindness and concussion and
deafening noise all combined.
When the French started their
spring drive toward Craonne I :au
just climbing into bed in a house well
ia the rear of the active zone. My
roommate, “Wally,” sang out:
“Come and see the gunfire!”
Through the open sloping skylight
of the garret 1 saw, for a moment, by
straining my eyes, a.far, black hori
zon. All ut once that whole immense
ly long stretch of black sky lighted
up with monstrous pulsations of flame
like the Northern Lights—but, like the
Northern Lights, magnified a thou
sand times.
Then rain began to patter on the
roof, as if the storm that grumbled
and roared on that far distant sky
were, indeed, @ storm in the clouds.
All through that night of gentle rain
the thundering guns continued, never
slackening, till morning. Then, sud
denly, a single sharp boom sounded
through the steady roll of noise, and
at that first single sound that made
itself audible we said: “Aha! It's
letting up now'”
After Battle for Craonne. .
Twenty-four hours later 1 was rest
ing on a stretcher inside of my am
bulance, near the front, trying to
sleep. Tne rain was pattering still,
and my brain, instead of yielding to
weariness, was busily reviewing again
the wild, dishevel'ed halr and the tired
eyes of the thousands of soldiers
whom I had seen tramping through
the mud that day.
“I will eat dinner at Craonne before
Former Health Commissioner Says
Nuxated lron
Should Be Used in Every Hospital and Prescribed by
Every Physician—Attributes His Own Great Physi
cal Activity Today at Over 60 Years of Age Largely
to His Personal Use of Nuxated Iron.
WHAT FORMER HEALTH
COMMIBSIONER KERR SAYS
As Heal'h Commissioner of the Oty of (!Mcngo i
was fmp<tuned many times to recommend different
medicines, mineral waters, etc. Never yet have I gone
on record as favoring any particular remedy, but 1 feel
that in Nuxated Iron an exception should be made to the
rule. 1 have taken Nuxated Iron myself and experienced
ita hoanh(;,mn.. strength-bullding effect, and in the
interests the public welfare, I feel it my duty to make
known the results of its use. I am well past my three
acore years and want to say that I belleve that my own
great p}gslcll activity 13 due largely today to my personal
use of Nuxated Iron, and if my indorsement shall induce
ansemic, nervous, run-down mem and women to take
Nuxated Iron, and receive the wonderful tonic benefits
which I have received, 1 shall feel greatly gratified that
I made an exception to my life-long rule in recommend
ing it. From my own u{meme with Nuxated Iron, I
feel that §t is such a valuable remedy that it ought to
be used in every hospital and prescribed by every phy
siclan in this counizy.”
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Former Health Commissioner, City of Chicagoe.
NOTE~—Nuxated Iron, which has been used by Former Health
Commissioner Kerr with such surprising results, and which is pre
scribed and recommended by physiclans in such a great variety of
cases, 18 not a patent medicine nor secret remedy, bui one which is
well known to druggists everywhere. Unlike the older inorganie
fron products, it is easily assimilated, does not Injure the teeth,
make them black, nor upset the stcmach; on the contrary, It is a
most potent remedy in near)i‘ll.llorml of mt‘.&fu&im as well as
for mervous, run-down conditions. The manufacturers have such
Fu confidence in Nuxated Iron that they offer to forfeit SIOO.OO
0 any charitable institution if they can not take any man or
woman under 60 who lacks fron and increase their strength 100
per cent or over in four week' time, provided they have no se
rious organic trouble. They also offer to refund your money if it
does not at leas: double your strength and endurance in ten
days’ time. It is dispensed by Jacobs’ Pharmacy and all good
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Mother! If your Child’s
Tongue is Coated.
If Cross, Feveril.l-l,_C;;atipated, Bilious,
and the Stomach out of Order, give
*“California Syrup of Figs”
A laxative today saves a bilious
child tomorrow. Chlldren simply
will not take the time from play to
empty their bowels, which become
clogged up with waste; then the
liver grows sluggish, and the stom
ach is disordered.
Look at the tongue, mother! If
coated, or your child {s listless,
cross, feverish, with tainted breath,
restless, doesn’t eat heartily, or has
[a cold, sore throat, or any other
children’s ailment, give a teaspoon
ful of “California Syrup of Figs”
lthen don’'t worry, because (t is a
perfectly harmlesa dose, and in a
1 come back,” the French general had
said, “or 1 will not come back at alll”
And these were the men who had
faced death to make his declaration
good. .
Under usual conditions the artillery
fire hecame desultory after daybreakl,
Howevear cruelly the big shells might
have been pounding the roads during
the n.ght, morning generally found
the fiont so quiet that cars ven
tured well toward the trenches and
officers on inspection tours often
walked across the flelds from battery
to battery. The artillery men cama
out of their holes for a morning
promenade, and for the time being the
war seemd to be stopped completely.
Sometimes, however, this routine
was rudely broken by one side or the
other. One morning about eleven the
Germans s'iddenly opened a tremen
ous fire. Within a few moments ths
heavens seemed rent. All the roads
were whipped by the flery curtain,
Hour after hour passed and there was
no less-ning of the vast attaek.
Poilus Cut Off by Barrage.
As I drove along a road just out
side o fthe sweep of that hurtle of
shell, T came upon a group of sol
diers sitting beside the road. Their
insignia showed that they belonged
to a regiment that was then in the
trenches.
“Bonjour!” I said. “It's « little
warm up there, isn’t it?”' By *“up
there” one meant the trenches.
“Oui!’ they replied in unison. “Its
so warm that only five men out of one
150 of one company are left, we hear!
We have just come back from leave,
from Paris. We hear that our divi
sion is to be relleved tomight. Did
vou hear that rumor, also? There
fore, we wait here. If our regiment
comes out, there is no time for us to
go to the trenches at all!™
1 said‘nothing in answer. I pitied
the men, and understood. I saw
worry written on their faces too. If
their division were not relleved—and
the chances were altogether that it
would not be—then these men would
be subject to court-martial for not
reporting. Yet, fresh from the gay
etles of Paris, what human being
could have wanted deliberately to go
into that thundering, fearful, devast
ating barrage?
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Former Health Commission
er Kerr has given years of
his life fighting for public
heaith in his own and other
cities, It was he who intro
duced Anti-toxin for Diph
therla In Chicage’s Health
Department. He purified the
milk for the Consumerg and
thereby heiped to save the
lives of thousands of babies,
He Introduced the anti-spit
ting ordinance which has
been copied aill over the
country and also took care
of the sewers and garbage
in the interest of public
health. He Is positive that
the widespread use of Nux
ated Iron would greatly les
sen the worries and troubles
of Health Commissioners In
keeping up a high standard
of public heailth.
few hours all this constipation-poi-|
son, sour bile and fermenting waato-'
matter will gently move out of the
bowels, and you will have a healthy,
playful child again. A thorough “in
side cleansing” is ofttimes all that!
is necessary. It should be the first|
treatment given in any sickness. |
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.|
Ask your druggist for a bottle of|
genuine “California Syrup of Figs|
and Elixir of Senna,” made by the/
California Fig Syru Company.|
which has full diroctfim. for ba
bles, children of all ages and for
grown-ups plainly printed on the
bottle.—Advertisement.