They were so many and so thickly did they fall that the ambulance service at first was not sufficient to handle them.

They lay in the fields or forests sometimes for a day before they were picked up, suffering unthinkable agony.
And after they were placed in cars and started back toward Paris the tortures continued.

Some of the trains of wounded that arrived outside the city had not been opened in two days.

The wounded had been without food or water.

They had not been able to move from the positions in which in torment they had thrown themselves.