. Thrilling stories of the Great War on land and sea, in the air, under the water. are frightful wrote anothercorrespondent. Three meadows near Ostend areheaped with dead. The wounded are now installedin private houses in Bruges, where large wooden shedsare being rushed up to receive additional farm wagons containing wounded, dying,and dead passed in one hour near Middelkerke. DIXMUDE A PLACE OF DEATH AND HORROR From Furnes, Belgium, members of the staff of theEnglish hospital traveled to Dixmude to search forwounded men on the firing line. Philip Gibbs, of theLondon Daily
. Thrilling stories of the Great War on land and sea, in the air, under the water. are frightful wrote anothercorrespondent. Three meadows near Ostend areheaped with dead. The wounded are now installedin private houses in Bruges, where large wooden shedsare being rushed up to receive additional farm wagons containing wounded, dying,and dead passed in one hour near Middelkerke. DIXMUDE A PLACE OF DEATH AND HORROR From Furnes, Belgium, members of the staff of theEnglish hospital traveled to Dixmude to search forwounded men on the firing line. Philip Gibbs, of theLondon Daily Chronicle, who traveled with them inreporting his experiences, said: I was in one of the ambulances, and Mr. Gleesonsat behind me in the narrow space between thestretchers. Over his shoulder he talked in a quietvoice of the job that lay before us. I was glad of thatquiet voice, so placid in its courage. We went forwardat what seemed to me a crawl, though I think it was afair pace, shells bursting around us now on all sides,while shrapnel bullets sprayed the earth about
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