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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 lLines Where
Blasts Tear Men and Materials Apart,
Even in the deep bomb-proof dug
ouls we could feel distinet jara when
An “arrivee” (a German shell) hit the
&round, whether it exploded or not.
When the shells did explode, the jar
was xo violent that dirt and rocks
orumbied down on us, and often rain
¢4 on the blankets of the wounded in
showers of gravel and debris. ]
In the very deep dugont of Fermae
Hemere!, despite it well trussed roof,
huge pleces of sandstone 6ften be
came dislodged, and whenever | re
turned to the place after being else
where for a few days | observed new,
big cracks in the 30-foot crust of
carth above.
Al Bt Gils, where big shells ended
thelr trip from “Germany” in a fleld
#bout 200 yvards from the road whorol
my car was, the heavy ambulance
was shocked by each thud so that
the stretcher-racks rattled, And when
J saw the frame of another man's
ambulance racked completely out of
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By ROBERT A. DRAKE,
Winner of French War Cross
true, my respect for the effect of
mere concussion became intense.
The respect was changed almost to
fear after 1 saw floor hoards fastened
down with two-inch screws ripped up
completely by the air-compression
from a shell. Though not the tinlest
frugment touched that car, yet both
Its slde doors were hlown clean off.
Rip Flagg's ambulance had the
nheet-metal of its hood battered into
dents as if 1t had neen banged by a
huge hammer-blow, That same con
cussion tore the inner side of his front
mud.guard away from the numerous
wteel rivets that held it—and the plece
was blown away o 0 far that we never
found it,
Concussions Tear Men's Limbs.
After witnessing a few examples
like these, 1 was able to credit the in
formation that occasionally these ter
rific blasts actually tore off the arms
and legs of men near by,
Life amid this endless concussion
hrought sleeplessness and headache,
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 bheen away from the front for
more than a week ar two. When we
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the differing sounds mgde by shells of
different sizes and charncter,
One of our stations as in a right
! angied corner of the line close to the
| trenches, with the Germans firing
| fromn three sides. The nolse was iike
| that of a flerce north gale sweeping
| through trees and through the craucks
in a house, There were curious
| mounds of tearing and ripping n the
alr that approached untl), for an
’nmvam. the shells seemed surely to
| be driving straight for the dugout.
In another instant we heard the noises
whimpering away overhead.
We timed the courses of ghells
often. The time from the first dull
boom of the German gun to the cragh
that terminated the whistle of its
shell's flight was nearly the same al
wuys for each variety of shell shriek
~twenty, twenty-one and twenty
three saconds, according to the kind
of shell. Short as the time was, it
seemed enormously long, for one
could not know {f the shell would
land half 4 mile away or within half
n yard, -
Waiting for Explosions,
During such tense perlods of wail
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 sllent stretcher
bearers, y
Some of the Americans used to
laugh nervously at firet. They soon
stopped, as the undefined fear grew
on them,
A curlous thing was when we were
outglde, sheltering with our ambu
lances between walls in the open.
On such occasions the stretcher
bearers often stood at the entrance
of the dugout, lifting their arms to
signal the coming of shells. It was
strangely as if the flying shrieks
were some unearthly music, and the
bearers were leading the orchestra.
Sometimes the whines of the shells
decreased as they came nearer, Then
would could see 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 shriek
would burst overhead and everybody
plunged madly for the cave.
In intervals between hombardments
we usually wrote letters, for nobody
wanted to talk. \While ‘he silence
lasted, the scratching of pens seemed
immensely loud, Then, all at onee,
the tearing sound would break the
silence, The shadowy forms of the
bearers cringed unconsciously in an
ticipation of the explosion, accus
tomed though they were to the noise.
Nearer and nearer fell the shelis till
there were whistlings that made us
verily believe that the next shell must
hurst into the place,
“Voila!"” said a stretcher-bearer
sitting on the benech beside a hoy with
o broken arm. Our hearts stopped
beating for two or three seconds,
Another scream, stlil nearer, scemed
to wipe out our very existence. An
other! “It's nearer!"” muttered one.
It was, It woke up a chap who had
been snoring in a corner, and it took
a real noise 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, 1 tried to
finish a letter by inserting the word
“Bang!” every time [ heard an ar
rivee. “You ean tell how often the
shells are coming in 1 wrote, “by
reading these words at a moderate
rate, Bang! and seeing how long it
takes, you, Bang! between bangs. But
I'm afraid I'm not writing much else
than Bang! Bang! Bang!"” 1 conclud
ed, ‘
In the midst of It two stretcher
bearers came in empty-handed fmm‘
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 %renh between words. “Bar
rage everywhere,”
The 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 alr. Finally the window in
my ambulance was shattered, uttey
{,.\;.uwholly, blusted into a thousand
1 stretched a plece of heavy rub
ber over the broken window and fas
tened it tightly with tacks driven
deep into hard wood. Rigidly taough
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it was stretched, it bellled Jike a sall
whenever an arrivee hurst anywhere
near by,
| If we were near a French battery
when it began to play, like a gigantic
bunech of vaet firecrackers all going
off together, the cars trembled, and
{the cloth screens, in particular, shiv
iered as it they had palsy,
| Curious Tricks on Nerves,
| There were some humorous effects,
Itno, of the continuous nervous ten
‘si«m. Sometimes, when sleeping in a
luugunt on a qgulet night, the sudden
buzz of a big blue-bottle fly was
enough to startie men out of a doze.
Ocebsionally [ awoke In the alarming
belief that A fast Austrian “44” was
j coming right in at the door, only to
{ discover that it was somebody snor
mg
On such quiet nights we were be
ing atartled continually by the distant
rumble of army supply wagons or the
roar of a motorcycle. 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
standing.
One day | bored a hole in the Yront.
of my steel helmet 40 that 1 could
hang it up on a nail. 1 was driving
netx day toward Cuissy when 1 heard
the ghriek of a:tremendous shell so
cloge that 1 threw myself flat. The
heimet fell off, and the shriek stopped
Instantly. 1 pieked the helmet up to
put it on and heard the shriek again,
but this time it was strangely faint.
Then I discovered that the breeze
whistling through the tiny aperture
right above my head had made such
|n perfect imitation of an oncoming
ghell that even a veteran might have
been decelved.
“8hell” Noise Deceptive,
Oné night in the dugout in Vailly
I sat up in bed listening to a most
peculiar shriek caming from afar, and
coming closer and closer. “That's a
funny one!” said I, in a low voice to
the man next to me, old “Friar Tuck.”
“What's a funny one?” asked he.
“That shell,” said I. “Pst! There it
is again!” '
“Shell!” said he disgusted. “It's
me, blowing up my air-pillow! 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
fatthfully. Sometimes the French
men were somewhat careless and in
different, but usually they could find
a dugout even more quickly than we
Americans did.
“I know where there are some
tralned Frenchmen who can dodge
lstwlls:“ Paul Greene gald to me one
day after a trip to Ferme Hemeret,
“1 was standing in the doorway of
the dumout when a shrapnel shell
screamed overhead. T never heard it
explode. How could 1?7 Eight flying
Ffenchmen sailed into my stomach on
thei' way into the dugout, and I fell
down thirty steps underneath them!”
If the air was perfectly quiet the
shell could be heard in plenty of
time to get safely under cover, but if
auto trucks or other heavy vehicles
were going over rough roads near by
the warning shriek often was not
heard 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 lpudly was often told
to “shut up,” for fear that his voice
would prevent his comrades from
hearing the deadly warning. There
was good excuse for this objection to
undue talk, 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 piece of the shell
came into the dugout and hit the
chef’'s dishpan.
The French battery men were so
expert-at “reading” shell sounds that
they couvld actually tell whether or
nrot a shell was golng to explode while
it was still in the alr. 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, whaen that shell landed
no explosion followed.
The next mament, hawever, they
might yell, “Watch out!” when a shell
whistle not half so loud as the first
one camq along overhead. Instantly
the whna'c‘rowd 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.
“Kasy!"” they answered. “The shells
thta rarely explode are those that sail
end over end; and the whistle they
make is different from the others.”
Life or Death May Depend. |
vlt 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 odnr-l
leas gas used by the Germans, and
unless one was aware of the noise!
made by such a shell one had no way
as being prepared. So we all learned
carefully that the gas shells did naet
explode with a loud bang!ebut cracked
apen with a thudding sound much like
that of a dud. J |
One most important function of
shrieks was the stimulating effect
that they had on the lethargy that
affected many of the French soldiers.
“If the bocheés only Kknew what a
hurry-up effect thesge shells have on
the munition trains,” said one “'nlly[
one day, "I bet thev wouldn't shell|
the railroads at all!”
“Feght!” said another chap. “Those
French wouldn't fight half so well
withont shell screams to spur them
on. Listen to those drivers travei!”
And the tcamsters certainly did travel |
when they got near a danger zone. |
1 discovered a curious bit of psy-|
chology connected with shell. If l]
shell soream began to approach, and
just one man in a crowd started on|
a run for'the dugout, everybody else|
piled in behind him instantly. Buti
often, even when a shell was very|
close, if nobody started to run, the'
whole crowd stayed out in the open. |
We did not relish assignments to!
posts near the French batteries. This|
was not primarily because the Ger-!
mans shelled such localities more, 1t!
was because the ceaseless noise and
the concussions were so disagreeable.
In time I grew to hate the roar of the
gun--a hatred of the noise as if it
were something horrible and personi
fied. 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
tificial thunder produced effects that
in the end nearly nauseated men.
Loneliness made the noises all but
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Ostel, We looked around at the si
lent stretener bearers, who sat along
the wall, and we both agreed that
their company was worse than none
at all.
| At home I never rtad regarded a
lthnn(lerufurm as a pleasant thing. In
i France, after hearing the roll of the
;camn.n for weeks at a time, the syd
| den crash of genuine 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
| undergound dressing station near the
| front. It was like this:
| Shell Weather—¥ine. Indications
{ —Frenchmen walking about calmly
| and ehowing grand disregard for
{ Augouts, Interpretation—Plenty of
{time to turn car around and trig
| wheels. ‘
| Shell Weather- Stormy. Indications
{»--I.‘tter absence of Frenchmen or a
few worried-looking ones -hunting
| dugouts in crouched attitudes. Inter
pretation-—Never mind turning your
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Problems in Shell Noises. ‘
There are many questions in re-|
gard to sheall noises that caused hours
of heated but always fruitless discus
ision. One question Was: Why does
the 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''
sald 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 of this
theory. “One explosion,” said he, oc
curs while it is still in the air. The
second one occurs when it strikes. So
vou get a combination of shrapnel and
cirdinary explosive shell in one.” \
“Don’t you believe it,” objected Pe- |
tey, who represented the skeptics.
“What you think is a double explo
sion is nothing but the echo of the
noise!"”
Another question that kept us
awake was the stock inquiry: “Does
a heavy bombardment cause raln-‘
fall?”
“Whenever the French attack it
rains,” was a regular saylng. One
heard it agaln and again. I noted!
that many times it was true. |
“But it doesn't rain when the boches'
attack,” sald an iconoclast one night,
triumphantly. |
The thing that caused the most in-|
tensely persongl interest 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
periment to test the truth of the the
ory!
The noises from the French bat
teries were .nflnite in variety accord
ing to the nature.of their surround
ings and to their proximity. In one
place the famous 76'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 recognized by us
all as being identical with the echo
ing of the trap guns near the Harvard
Standium in Cambridge. The reason
vas the same. The sound across the
sea was caused by the echoes from a
decorative iron fence, instead of, as
in France, by shell-pitted hill tops.
" Qunflashes 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, vyelled:
“Blow-out!” I, too, was sure that I
had heard the sharp “plop!” of a
bursting tire; end I had the digust
ing vision of running a couple of
miles on the “flat,” for I had 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 ocut‘ “All right
here!™ He steadled the steering
wheel, and I looked at my side. The
tires were intact,
“Plop!” the sound came again. Then
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we knew what it was. It was a 756
firing from a batlsry directly behind
the car.
Bad as the noise was, there were
times when the flashes were even
worse for nerves. It was worse at
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 happened to be
in front of a battery, the shells would
pass not 50 feet overhead. Then we
had blindness and concussion and
deafening noffe all combined.
When the French started their
spring drive toward Craonne I was
just elimbing irto bed in a house well
in the rear of the active zone, My
roomrnate, “Wally,” sang out:
“Come and sece the gunfire!”
Through the open sloping skylight
of the garret I saw, for a moment, by
straining my eyes, a far, black hori
zon. All at 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
Toof, as if the storm that grumbled
and roared on that far distant sky
were, indeed, a 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 I was rest
ing on a stretcher inside of my am
bulance, near the front, trying to
sleep. The rain was pattering still,
and my brain, instead of yielding to
weariness, was busily reviewing again
the wild, dishevelled 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
FormerHealthCommissionerSays
Nuxated Iron
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 FPORMER HEALTH
COMMISSIONER KERR SAYS
As Health Commissloner of the City of Chicago, 1
was importuned many _times to recommend different
medicines, mineral waters, etc. Never vet have I gone
on record ad favoring any particular remedy, but I feel
that in Nuxated Iron an exception should be made to the
rule. I have taken Nuxated Iron myself and experienced
its health-giving, strength-building effect, and in the
interests of the public welfare, 1 feel it my duty to make
known the results of its use. I am ¥§" past my three
score years and want to say thai I believe that my own
great ph‘!ncu aotivity 1s due largely today to my personal
use of Nuxated Lron, and if my indorsement shall induce
anaemic, nervous, run-down men and women to take
Nuxated Iron, and receive the wonderful tonic benefits
which I have recelved, I shall feel greatly gratified that
1 made an exception to my life-long rule in recommend
ing it. From my own exrmnoa with Nuxated Iron, I
feel that it is such a valuable remedy that it ought to
be used in every hospital and prescribed by every phy
sieian in this couniry.’”
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Former Health Commissioner, City of Chicago.
NOTE—Nuxated Iron, which has been used by Former Health
Commissioner Kerr with such surprising results, and which is pre
scribed and recommended by physicians in such a great variety of
cases, 18 not a patent medicine nor secret remedy, but ong which is
well known to druggists everfwhere. Unlike the 6lder inorganic
iron products, it is easily assymilated, does not injure the teeth,
make them black, nor upset the stomach: on m&m 1t is a
mmzmmxxmmfmdm a 8 well as
for nervous, run-down dlm. The mapufacturers have such
{nu. confidence in Nuxated that they offer to forfelt SIOO.OO
0 any charitable institution if they can not take any man or
woman under 60 who lacks iron 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 least 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, Feverish, Constipated, Bilious,
and the Stomach out of Order, give
. “Califorpia Syrup of Figs.”
A laxative today saves a bilious
child tomorrow. Children 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 ia disordered.
Look at the tongue, mother!, If
coated, or vour child is 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”
then don’t worry, because it is a
nerfectly harmless dose, and in a
I come back,” the French general had
said, “or 1 will not come back at alil”
And these were the men who had
faced death to make his declaration
good. 4
’ Under usual conditions the artillery
fire hecame desultory after daybreal,
However cruelly the big shells might
have been pounding the roads during
the night, morning generally found
the fiont so quiet that cars ven
tured well toward the trenches ané
officers on inspection tours often
walked across the flelds from battery
to battery. The artillery men came
out of thelr holes for a rr?)mh:'
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 suddenly opened a t
ous flre. Within a few moments z
' heavens seemed rent. All the roads
'were whipped by the flery curtatn.
Hour after hour passed and there was
no lessening of the vast attack.
) Poilus Cut Off by Barrage.
~ As I drove along a road just out
side o fthe sweep of that hurtle of
shell, I came upon a group of sdl
‘diers sitting beside the road. Their
insignia showed that they belonged
to a regiment that was then in the
trenches.
~ *“Bon jour!” I said. “It's a little
warm up there, isn't it?” By ‘“ap
there” one meant the trenches.
“Oui!’ they replied in unison. ‘M=
8o warm that only flve men out of one
150 of one company are left, we hear!
We have just come back from leave,
from Parie. We hear that our dg'!»
sion is to be relleved tonight. d
you 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!”
I said nothing in answer. I pitled
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
eties of Paris, what human being
could have wanted deliberately to go
into that thundering, fearful, devast
ating barrage?
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er Kerr has given years of
his life fighting for public
health in his own and other
cities, It was he who intro
duced Anti-toxin for Diph
therla In Chicago’s Health
Department. He purified the
milk for the Consumers and
thereby helped to save the
ilves of thousands of babies,
He introduced the antl-spit
ting - ordinance which has
been copied all 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 Nu»x
ated Iron would greatly |es
sen the worries and troubi
of Health Commissloners
keeping up a high standar
of public health.
few hours all this constipa.uon-poi—g
son, sour bile and fermenting waste-|
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 ghould be the first|
treatment given in any sickness. |
Beware of counterfeit fig Ayrups. |
Ask your druggist for a bottle of|
genuine “California Syrup of Figs|
and Elixir of Senna,” made by the|
California Fig Syrup Company,
which has full directions for ba
bies, children of all ages and for
grown-ups plainly printed on the
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