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WARM WELCOME, FLOWERS AND SMILES GREET WOUNDED AMERICANS IN ''BLIGHTY”lt;By Harold Edwin Bechtol, European manager of tfie Newspaper Enterprise Association.) liONDON, Enh% Sept. 17.--Major E_ IF. Fiske. commanding: officer at the new American army hospital atEngland, looks at hisDart ford watch.•'Convoy time!” he calls out.He and his staff it mb their hats anil jump into flivvers waiting outside the door.They lead the. way waiting* ambulances Crosses on the sides, side station nearby.Already many British women and kiddies are hanging about the station platform. A bunch of woundedarecomingin in a rain-for ;l bunch of with big- Red to a little way-Americansute.The Red Cross train pulls in. All the men about, members of Major Flske's staff, Britishers, station employes, grab stretchers, and the wounded Yankees are gently carried out. Women and kids lino up jinri smile at them, talk to them, hand them tlowers as they arc carried 10 the ambulances.From another part of the train, men with arm wounds and the like, who can walk, pile off the train, all smiles.A young Britisher Of three, looks at the apple lie has taken a huge bite out of. carefully puts the bitten side down in his palm and offers the apple to one of Lho Americans. The American insists they're not allowed to eat fruit, and has a chat withyoung Mr. John Bull about the fishir*’ in the neighborhood.The ambulance train finally pulls out for the hospital and arrives half an hour later. Every wounded man who can walk, and some who can't, all the nurses who can leave the wards—everybody is cm; for the welcome. The hoys who just arrived are “back m the states”—that’s how they feel.The pictures show—No. 1—Carrying wounded Americans from the train.No. 2—Young Britain, perched on the driveway fence, welcomes the Americans as they’re carried to the ambulances and taken to the American hospital at Hartford.No. 3—The new arrivals’’ being lifted out of the. ambulance in the hospital grove.IRTnnnanr rrr nminiinare guests of E. E. Friekett and fam-
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Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Wed, Sep 18, 1918
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