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...then comes one that should be read. The Cross Bearers is one to read. Though far from being a record of unrelieved horrors, it shows war's seamiest side, and with open seams. It is a story of a German medical corps. Author Frey. onetime stretcher -bearer, Red -Cross-wearer, knows whereof he writes...
Sassoon writes quietly, with an effect of naivete that often cloaks irony. The naivete is superficial, the irony fundamental. When he was brought back to London after being wounded, his stretcher was taken off the train at Charing Cross Station, where "a woman handed me a bunch of flowers and a leaflet by the Bishop of London who earnestly advised me to lead a clean life and attend Holy Communion...
...witness a mass-beating went Chicago Daily News's by no means squeamish Correspondent Negley Parson. He noted that the first Gandhites to appear were ambulance men, stretcher bearers with red crosses on their arms. Next came the demonstrators for Independence, thousands of Hindus, scores of Sikhs. Then the police charged. All the Hindus seemed frightened-as well they might, being completely unarmed, knowing they would be beaten blue and blacker by police lathi (sticks)-but only a handful of the Hindus broke and ran, while not a Sikh stirred. Women, whom the police were ordered not to strike...
...farmer's wife. Outside in the square milled a crowd of Shermanites and thrillseekers from the environs. They knew that: 1) No matter what the prisoner said, Texas law requires a taking of testimony; 2) Mrs. Farlow, as a witness, was to be carried to the courthouse on a stretcher. There she was! As she entered, so did the crowd, soon a howling mob. Four Texas rangers adjourned court with tear gas bombs...
...plasterer sent Fieri to the 16th floor for materials. Fieri opened a door, stepped out into an air intake shaft over the J. P. Morgan & Co. building next door, dropped 165 ft. into a subcellar. Permanently paralyzed with a broken neck, he was carried into court on a stretcher to sue for $250,000. Last week a Manhattan jury allowed him $110,000 for his injuries against the Morgan Company and three other concerns...