EVENING LEDGER PHIIELPHIA WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1916
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PSYCHOLOGICAL AFTERMATH
ADDS TO HORRORS OF BATTLE
Trivial Incidents Touch Memory's Chord and Warriors
Weep or Rage Outbreaks Are Heartrending
; as Awful Recollections Start
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By ELLEN ADAIR
BpwUllr WTlltan. for th. Ktixiko trait.
LiUNugNi Oct. 14.
Ths after effects of battle on ths mind
e-f ths Individual fighter are not Been e!ly,
and yet one has but to touch certain chords
oi memory the
casual mention of
a date, the name of
a French town, a
note of muslo and
surprising evidence
of nerve-strain will
result at once.
A large and bur
y policeman who
had done wonder
ful fighting at Loos
In the famous
"London Scottish"
regiment proved a
most charming In
dividual to con
verse with on
things military.
Thera was little
that he did not
know concerning
hand grenades,
tactlos and so on.
As he lay peace
fully tucked up In
,Ms lime hospital
loot " feet 4 of
ELLEN ADAm convalescent hu
manity one would aoaroely have Imagined
him In any oharaoter other than the cheery,
smiling, genial London "bobby" whose duty
It was to control the Piccadilly traffla and
pilot babies and old ladles across the
crowded streets.
But we all knew the little story of his
special fight at Loos. Coming upon four
temporarily unarmed German soldiers, he
pitched his own rifle and revolver away,
and. gashing upon the astonished men In all
his great strength, strangled each one In
turn with his hands I "
TOUCHED MEMORY CHOIID
All went well with our little hospital
chat until a foolish nurse referred Indi
rectly to this special deed. A chord of
terrible memory was touched. The refer
ence woke that short-lived spaco of mad
ness again. The effect on the ex-mlnlon
of the law was sudden and startling. Ills
eyes glared like those of a maniac's and
the veins stood out on his forehead. Stam
mering and stuttering unintelligibly, he
twisted a corner of the eiderdown quilt In
tils big hands, and then very deliberately
tore that corner Into shreds, lie was back
again on the terrible battlefield of Loos,
one man against four Germans, and stran
gling each of the enemy with his hands.
It seems to me there Is a psychological
kink or flaw In the poise of the average
man who has seen much fighting In the
present war. It Is only natural that such
should be the case. One has to walk warily
with him In discussing certain phases of
warfare. There are places so dark In his
memory that they must not be touched.
An acquaintance of mine came through
a pretty sharp experience In a famous skir
mish "somewhere In France." Ills leg was
shot away and he lay out for three days
and nights In the wind and rain before
he was brought In. The new artificial
limb which he now wears Is so perfectly
made that he walks without a limp. To
outward appearances he Is the same gay,
cheerful youth, aa of pre-war days. He Is
not ynhappy. He will talk of past battles
and of the war freely.
But In his mind there Is one dark spot.
and. probably always will bethe sight
or a deep pool of water or a small, datk
pond Is anathema to him. Ha cannot bring
himself to walk past either. He will go to
any Inconvenience to avoid them. He can
give no explanation, and the subject must
never be mentioned I
His doctor thinks that during the three
J". nd nlnt wnn " T, minus a leg
"u m ureai pain, out Between the trenches,
tie must have crawled near a raln-nlled
shell hole, and the memory of that black
pool Is somewhere deep In the recesses of
his brain.
But no one will ever know.
Another soldier of my acquaintance, who
had got his" In Mesopotamia, absolutely
refused to have any kind of plant or grow
? ir1? ner hlm dulng convalescence.
His bed had to be placed so that he could
not see the trim lawns through the wln
flows, and if any visitor brought him flowers
he turned his face to the wall and wept.
His face was scarred and burned. And
his hatred of flowers was due to the fact
that a Turkish sniper, his body and head
cleverly disguised with foliage and flowers,
had crawled toward this British soldier
through the long grass and hurled a hand
grenade full In his unsuspecting face,
REMEMBERS "MAILED MONSTERS
Yet another soldier cannot bear the sight
of an ordinary steamroller such as Is used
forcibly of the "mailed monsters of the
Somme those British Juggernauts of
d.hv.w.hlc.h "' before them at
that historic battle.
Talk about terror r said he. "The Huns
went crajy. I don't blame them. Imagine
a slab of battleship suddenly coming over
the lip of your trench, raising Its terrible
bow as If It were going to plunge Into the
trough, and then, with a Jerk, to straddle
over Jo the other side and begin to pour out
a hall of load. The Huns looked up, goggle
eyed with terror, and then fled in consterna
tion. "All day Jong It was like that tanks and
men. men and tanks, racing hither and
thither, obliterating and stamping out the
enemy, or rounding them up in daxed and
broken bunches.
"Mind you, the ground's not like what
you see at home nice, rolling gross fields,
with bits of green hedges, and that sort of
thing. Oh. not It's lst one huge. torn,
tumbled mass of earth, pock-marked with
shell holes and craters, deep and ragged
holes which go down feet and feet, and
Into which you could put and hide a whole
company of men. Well. then. Just picture
to yourself these cam going straight through
that No track, no road did they take
there were none to take but Just straight
ahead t . , ,.
The armored ears, huge, ungainly,
hideous, went ahead In a tort of stupid
lollop. To see them run up toward a
crater. pole for a moment on the ridge,
then plunge down, aa we thought, to de
struction, then suddenly 'emerge again,
grunting and spitting fire.
"We ran alongside or behind them, with
Axed bayonets, yet feeling Immensely se
cure. The Germans were In full rout at
places, fleeing from the terror, or backing
Into our midst in oroves ana ueina nrp
herded to the rear by the British. My last
view of the famous tanks,' Just after I was
shot down, was a blurred and misty vision
of them trundling about the horlson with
men streaming before them Oerman pris
oners." And aa the soldier flnlehed his narrative.
Into his eyes came the strange reminiscent
gleam which one always sees when men
who have been wounded talk of their past
experiences, and which shows that on the
mind the after-effects of battle are very
real and very poignant.
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