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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, August 24, 1914, LAST EDITION, Image 12

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improvization, discipline and self-reliance,
and learn, generally speaking,
to approximate as nearly as possible
to conditions likely to obtain in time
of war.
I one day at the-fr.ont estimated
that of the eighty-foarpatients in
our hospital, forty-eight had been hit
in the legs and sixteen in the arms;
and of the remainder, the injuries
were distributed amongst heads,
shoulders, ribs, back, etc., whilst
seven of the cases were medicaL
This prevalence of leg wounds was
explained to me by the soldiers as
due to the fact that the Turkish sol
dier is so illiterate that he cxtinot
read the sighting on his rifle and
aims point-blank, with the usual re
sult that the bullet hits below the
mark at which it is aimed. A man
came in which his right arm shock
ingly shattered by shrapnel. He had
traveled in the usual comfortless ox
carts for five days, from Lule Burgas.
He arrived in an exhausted condition,
and was suffering as many were,
when first admitted, from severe
shock. He was discovered the next
morning weeping disconsolately.
We asked him what was the mat
ter, and he then confided to us, after
a little hisitation, that he was en
gaged to be married, and he was ter
ribly afraid that if as he feared
he should lose his - n, his fiancee
who was, of course, the only girl in
the world might refuse to marry
him. Owing to the skill of the doc
tors and the devotion of the nurses,
the arm was saved.
Soldiers who came into the hospi
tal with their brains protruding
through their skulls, at first paralyz
ed in speech and in every limb, men
with buttocks shot away, men with
arms and legs shattered with
wounds which made it impossible to
believe, as you gazed upon them, that
this row, bleeding, nauseous-smelling
object formed part of a human
bemg these one and all recovered
in what seemed to me miraculous
fashion.
It was to mv mind also worthy of
note that this little band of women
drawn from classes accustomed in
thpir nwn homes to every luxury,
should have withstood not only the
work, but the hardships ana priva
tions, without a grumble or a word of
discontent.
BEST MEAT HAS BEEN CANNED,
ACCORDING TO REPORT
A new clew has been discovered by
federal investigators who have been
working m the stockyards trying to
find out the reason for the recent
sudden scarcity of meats. They report
that enormous quantities of meat
have been canned in the last few
weeks, the packers anticipating a tre
mendous European trade.
It is also said that the meats that
are being canned are of the choice
stock that usually is put on the mar
ket. In the past the poorer grades of
meats were used for canning.
The" canning of these choice meats
enables the packers to point to their;
coolers in proof that there is not a
large quantity of meat on hand.
Representatives of the different
packing houses refused yesterday to
verify reports that they had received
orders for millions of cans of meat
for European armies.
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ENGLAND HAS 60,000 RED CROSS
NURSES
London. The British Red Cross
Society can call upon 60,000 persons,
many of them highly trained, to un
dertake field ambulance and hospital
work.
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ONE LUCKY DUKE
St. Petersburg. Michael, brother
of the czar, is still on foreign soil.
His marriage displeased -the czar and
he was put under a ban a few months
before the war broke out. The result
was that on his honeymoon tour with
his rather plebian wife he was barred
from royal functions. Now he is es
caping the necessity of getting out on
the firing line.
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