The Martian, journal publié par les soldats américains de l'Hôpital de Mars-sur-Allier , item 9
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The Martian
Hommes - 36-40
Chevaux - 8
Vol. 1. - No. 15 SUNDAY, December 1er, 1918. Price: 30 centimes
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THE CENTER, OF A.P.O. 780
Three drawings at top of page, three types of towers.
Captions: 1 - Water tower : Convalescent Camp; 2 - On Avenue "D"; 3 - The Old Tower
Column One
If it is true that first impressions are strongest, then the medical men, the nurses and patients will always remember this Hospital Center for its enormous size and its great area, its thousands of tents and buildings and its thousands of patients. The hospital site itself is a beautiful one, although the enlisted man struggling through mud after a season of rain scarcely thinks so. But the beauty is momentarily obscured while the panorama of buildings and railroads with men in khaki and smiling nurses every where unfolds itself.
Column Two
Sherman marched to the sea with 60,000 men, and Lee had approximately as many men at Gettysburg. Had not the armistice interrupted construction in this center, a month or two more of building would have provided hospitalization for every man in the armies of either of those great generals. Blucher might have billeted in one corner the troops that saved the day at Waterloo.
The uninitiated American knows his country has done "big" things in France. He understands vaguely that a "Hospital Center" is some sort of centralization of hospitals. However he has no adequate idea of its real size. As planned, 4,500 enlisted men, 2,000 nurses, 800 officers and innumerable civilians would be required to operate only the medical, surgical and administrative departments of it.
Another army of construction, another of supply, and an appreciable detachment of transportation men would be required to maintain it. Buildings and tents were to be numbered by thousands. Merely to visit all the units and departments engaged in its operation would have been a full day's hard work. Over 40,000 patients were to have been housed within its area. The end of hostilities found 20,000 men
Column three
in the Center, and each day would have added to its capacity.
American engineers arrived in February 1918, to lay out the ground. Thereafter men came from all corners of the earth to build it. There were Americans descended from all the nations that gave their blood to the making of the United States. Americans white and black; there were hosts of Annamites from their far-off corner in Asia, Russians from the fertile steppes; picturesque Spaniards from smiling Andalusia; the inevitable Frenchman; and
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Drawing at bottom showing a large camp from afar.
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The Martian
Hommes - 36-40
Chevaux - 8
Vol. 1. - No. 15 SUNDAY, December 1er, 1918. Price: 30 centimes
----
THE CENTER, OF A.P.O. 780
Three drawings at top of page, three types of towers.
Captions: 1 - Water tower : Convalescent Camp; 2 - On Avenue "D"; 3 - The Old Tower
Column One
If it is true that first impressions are strongest, then the medical men, the nurses and patients will always remember this Hospital Center for its enormous size and its great area, its thousands of tents and buildings and its thousands of patients. The hospital site itself is a beautiful one, although the enlisted man struggling through mud after a season of rain scarcely thinks so. But the beauty is momentarily obscured while the panorama of buildings and railroads with men in khaki and smiling nurses every where unfolds itself.
Column Two
Sherman marched to the sea with 60,000 men, and Lee had approximately as many men at Gettysburg. Had not the armistice interrupted construction in this center, a month or two more of building would have provided hospitalization for every man in the armies of either of those great generals. Blucher might have billeted in one corner the troops that saved the day at Waterloo.
The uninitiated American knows his country has done "big" things in France. He understands vaguely that a "Hospital Center" is some sort of centralization of hospitals. However he has no adequate idea of its real size. As planned, 4,500 enlisted men, 2,000 nurses, 800 officers and innumerable civilians would be required to operate only the medical, surgical and administrative departments of it.
Another army of construction, another of supply, and an appreciable detachment of transportation men would be required to maintain it. Buildings and tents were to be numbered by thousands. Merely to visit all the units and departments engaged in its operation would have been a full day's hard work. Over 40,000 patients were to have been housed within its area. The end of hostilities found 20,000 men
Column three
in the Center, and each day would have added to its capacity.
American engineers arrived in February 1918, to lay out the ground. Thereafter men came from all corners of the earth to build it. There were Americans descended from all the nations that gave their blood to the making of the United States. Americans white and black; there were hosts of Annamites from their far-off corner in Asia, Russians from the fertile steppes; picturesque Spaniards from smiling Andalusia; the inevitable Frenchman; and
(continued on page 2, col 2)
Drawing at bottom showing a large camp from afar.
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The Martian
Hommes - 36-40
Chevaux - 8
Vol. 1. - No. 15 SUNDAY, December 1er, 1918. Price: 30 centimes
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THE CENTER, OF A.P.O. 780
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Mars-sur-Allier
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Story location Mars-sur-Allier
- ID
- 13708 / 140108
- Contributor
- Médiathèque municipale Jean Jaurès de Nevers
December 1, 1918
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