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"Somewhere in France"
W. B. Toole. Former State College
Student, Recount'- Incidents of
Days Spent 111 ,\\ .11 I < Mill
, Life in the front trenches in
France, with the ever-present danger
from a hundred and one things, in
due, sudden gas attacks and air
raids, together with the entertain
ments given by the men to raake
them forget the honors of war, is
graphically told by W. Brico Toolo
in an article printed In the Daily
Missoulian. Mr. Toole was form-,
fcrly a member of the 101S class of j
the state College of Washington,
and enlisted in tho American Red',
Cross as ambulance driver. Mr.!
Toole is a member of the Sigma j
Nu fraternity and was a member ofj
the glee club during ' be 1916-17 sea
son. The article is mad up of ex
tracts from letters written by Toole,
to his mother, Mrs. .lohn R. Toole,!
of Missoula.
"As I told you before, things a"
quiet here. It is queer how soon
one becomes acclimated. When a.
man comes in off duty the following l
conversation almost always takes;
place:
" How are things?'
"'Oh, they shelled for a!
while this morning and dropped a
few on the road coming down.'
"Then no one pays any further at
tention. It has got to be the usual
life. The thing that is a continual 1
wondut to me is how seldom anyone
is hit. But the French here have the
most artillery and shoot 50 shells to
one from the Germans. The con
tinual banging is taken as a matter
of course.
"Last night six of us were invited
to a concert and 1 was asked to bring
my mandolin. We left here just be-!
fore dark in one of the ambulances.
I have forgotten whether 1 have told
you about the night driving. Of
course, we do not have any lights
and the roads are overcrowded with |
everything from a five-ton truck to
the little cars they use in the I
trenches.
"We drove for about five miles j
and arrived at our destination in j
total darkness. It is queer how one
knows when one gets into a place
where hundreds of people are living.
Naturally there were no visible
lights and you could not tell that you
were In town because the houses
were knocked down. When I say
knocked down, I don't mean ruins
like you see in photographs, but that
there is not a wall standing over the
height of a man's bead.
"However, from all about in the j
darkness came a vague humming and
we were sure that here men were liv
ing and that it was not the noise of
the open road.
"We were stopped by a sentry and j
gave him our password, which seems
to open the road to every possible
courtesy— 'Ambulancier Am rlcain.'
The sentry replied, 'Oh, dpi mon
comrade,' and called into the dark
ness.
"A French lieutenant came up
and we, left our car in care of the
sentry. We went down the road for
a couple of hundred yards and then
took a trench. After what seemed a
mile of zig-zagging back and forth,:
we came to a door, which we entered.
"This was the entrance to a the
atre at the front. It vi sa long, low
hall, the roof of which was on a level i
will, th,. ground and covered with
layer upon layer of sand bags. The
Btage was simply a platform with
some burlap curtains at the sides.
"About 300 poilus were standing:
in the back. In the front of them
were seated the officers of the regi- 1
ment who were off duty. In front'
of them was the band.
"As an added touch was a poilu
at an old battered piano with, a i
bloody bandage around his head.
"We were given a .-eat of honor
with the officers. As I told you,
this division is about to move and
the three regiments were combed for
men who had been on the stage be
fore the war. They were very, very
good, and classed up with any vaude
ville I have seen.
'"Along about the middle of the
program I played the 'Indian Love
Song,' and as an encore 'La Paloma."
They seemed to like it very much.
I have played at a good many glee
club concerts while in college but
never before, and probably never
never again, to an audience like
that.
"Usually the audience looks from
the stage like a sea of while faces.
This was a sea of muddy, jaded
faces, all with an undercurrent of
Btrai'i, lit by smoky lights.
"A little later on we were asked,
as a great favor, to sing The Star
Spangled Banner.* Luckily two c'
the fellows had very good voices and
after all the courtesy that had been
shown us we could hardly refuse.
I
So the two men stepped up on the
platform and sang very well Indeed.
"It is not ths custom hero to land
j up for the national song, but, at a
sign from the colonel, everyone stood
at attention during the song.
"The show was over nil too fcoon
aud we came back to camp through
the dark twisting trenches, out on
the crowd' d road, through the mur
muring city nud back in our car
I along the crowded road ;;gain. 1
I shall never f. rget that night.
"My letter was interrupted by a
1 pas alarm. Whenever the wind is
! right for Fi Itz we* are perpetually on
| the gui vlve for gas. When the wind
! changes, I hope we worry him ns
| much as he does us.
"Wo heard tho alarm blow for
! 'ready,' so we all rushed out to our
cars and started them; to be sine
they wen working, and the drivers
got out their special masks
"I guess Fritz had only set over a
few gas bombs, as tho alarm to put
on masks did not sound and after
about a half hour we stopped our
motors and came back into our barn,
where we live,
"I rather enjoyed my Stay in this
town, as it was a very interesting
place before the war. There had
been a wonderful old castle with
moats and dungeons and everything
that is supposed to go with such a
place. It was, of course, of no mil
itary value, but as the Bodies knew
it was the source of a lot of pride to
France, they did the usual thing
and destroyed if. At. present the only
thing left standing is the tower over
the Inner moat.
"By such acts lias the German
made himself a Hun and placed him
self outside the pale, socially and
morally. After what I have seen
here I will never be able to look up
on a German in the same light as
before.
"There was an air raid last night
and it was interesting to watch the
change in the men after just a month
at the front. The raid took place at
about 10:00 o'clock. Most- of the
men were in bed when the warning
sounded to get off the streets. They
use the same warning here for the
air raids as they use at the front
for gas. .
"A Claxou horn, blown in long
blasts, started up and of course we
know that there was no gas here and
supposed that It was some officer
who had a little too much 'penard'
under his belt and was out on a joy
rido.
"Then an anti-aircraft battery
opened up ami we knew what was
going on. The battery was only a
block away and made an awful
racket. If such a thing had hap
pened on our first stop here we
would have all gone down the cellar.
But, after just a short month at the
front, only three men out of the 1"
got up to see the fun. The rest
stayed in bed and cursed because
they had been awakened.
"1 happened to be on guard and
so saw everything from start to
finish. The fuss started when the
Boche dropped a few bombs. They
hit the edge of to** and 1 thought
thai it was a locomotive coming up
a grade. But a dozen or more
searchlights flamed up in the sky
and after about five minutes they lo
cated Fritz. By that time he was
very close and the sound of the- mot
ors was very audible. Then the
guns started in and they kept up a
fairly steady fire for about five min
utes, Fritz had either accomplished
his mission or was driven off, 1"
cause at the end of that time he
left.
He Hat Some "Luck"
"We have been moved from the
headquarters town and have had the
luck to become attached to a fight
ing or flying division. By that I
mean a division that goes from one
place to another in case of an at
tack. That is much better than be
ing with a division that stays in one
place and it gives us a chance to win
distinction for sector 58 and we will
see more of the line.
"At our 'permanent camp' we are
living in a barn about three of four
miles back of the lines. At the pres
; ent moment i am on duty at an ad
vanced Poste de Secours. I am
about a mile from the German
trenches and can see very plainly the
I houses of a town that is in German
i hands.
"We have two men to an ambu
lance .md go out on 24-hour shifts.
l have charge of my ambulance and
j Iho other man is under my orders.
; l have a car behind a hedge so Fritz
. can't see it. When we go out on
duty wo eat, sleep and live In the
I cars. When an ambulance Is all
1 closed up it is really very comfort
' able.
"We have a little gasoline stove
s on which to make < offer and choco
late and boil eggs when we can get
them. Although the stretchers are
covered with dried blood they make
us comfortable cots, When anyone
is hurt a French soldier conies and
cither shows us the way or takes us
where we are to get Hie 'I less. as
the wounded are called here. Then
we take'the man or nun as the case
may be, back about six miles "to it
hospital.
'.'There Is always a car on reserve
that comes up ami takes our place in
case we go. To day it has been very
quiet. We sit. here in 'the car and
talk .md smoke and read, and on the
whole have a hard time killing time.
If you ant to know what it is like.
drive the Packard out on the flat
.and stay within 50 feet of it for 24
hoi,
"Of course there is the incessant
sound of guns. There Is a French
battery about 100 yards to my right,
another behind me and a third over
to left. They keep up a stead) ban-' -
ing all the while and every now and
then Fritz sends one over. How
ever, ho is not coming within 700
aids of either myself or the -bat
teries he is trying to hit.
"I have a hole about as deep as
our house is high to go clown into in
case he gets in range. It sounds ex
citing, but it is not at all. There Is
none of the 'flying shot and shell'
stuff that you Bee in the movies.
"As I sit here listening to the
hanging all for the purpose of kill
ing Fritz and then hear him banging
away to kill the friendly poilus that
pass by here, it seems the most mon
strously senseless thing in the world.
It is insane and was all brought on
by one man who 1 believe is insane,
who misled his people. The devil
must be fought with fire, however.
and I hope that he is getting his fill.
"I am supposed to be in a town
but I did not know it for over an
hour. 1 was shown a hedge and told
to drive my car behind it and wait
for calls. I looked about a bit and
discovered low piles of red mud that
had once been houses. It is a popu
lous place, however, as I discovered
by keeping my eyes open. In the
middle of every clump of bushes and
under every*pile of rocks is a door
leading down into the dugouts, and
the unshaven, smiling faces of the
poilus keep poking out from all sorts
of unexpected places. They remind
me of gophers, the way they keep
popping out.
"They call us their American en
marades and can not gel over the
tact that we are volunteers. It is
worth all the discomforts and a thou
sand more in go out after some poor
fellow, and although his face is
white and drawn with pain and his
young body shattered, to hear bin,
say 'American eamarade' and si-.c*
him try to smile. That is what re
pays us and I count myself far richer
than the highly paid German general
ho specializes In killing and not
saving .
SIMMONS BY PUBLICATION
in Justice Court Before Ceo. N.
Henry, Justice of the Peace, in
and for Precincts 41, 51, t'4 and
12. Whitman County, Washing
ton.
F. A. Masek. Doing Business Under
the Name. The Rodrick Tailor
ing Co., Plaintiff, vs. Mrs. C. 1).
Wilson and C. L. Wilson, De
fendants.
state of Washington, County of
Whitman, ss. :
State of Washington to Airs. C. D.
Wilson and C 1.. Wilson, defend
ants:
In the name of the State of Wash
ington you are hereby notified that
IX X. Masek, doing business under
the name of The Rodrick Tailoring
Co., has filed a complain against you
in ;gd court which will come on to
be heard at my office in Pullman, in
Whitman County, State of Washing
ton, on the 24th day of November,
1917, at the hour of 10:00 o'clock
a. m., and unless you appear and
then and there answer the same will
be taken as confessed, and the de
mand of the plaintiff granted. The
object and demand of said complaint
is to recover against you a Judgment
on your promissory note for the
principal sum' of. $31,75. with in
, .: oifab ,
terest, attorney fees and costs, and
to garnishee money due from the
Northern Pacific Railway company
to said defendant, C. L. Wilson.
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1917.
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