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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24.
1,101 HOSPITALS
NOW, IN BERLIN
Smallest Accomodating Forty-
Oases While Larger Ones
Have From 400 to 500 Beds.
Berlin.—Berlin has at present about
1,100 hospitals for the wounded, the
smallest accommodating forty cases
while the larger ones have from 400
to 600 beds.
In all there are said to be about
10,000 wounded in Berlin hospitals, the
number being maintained fairly con
stant although the individual patients
are constantly changing. A very largo
proportion of the wounded, it is stated,
are soon discharged as again fit for
duty and return to the front. No defi
nite figures are available but an army
surgeon who has had large experience
both in the field and in the base and
reserve hospitals estimated that about
seventy per cent of the wounded are
returning or will return to duty, only
thirty pe> cent being permanently un
litted for military service.
The Associated Press correspondent
we* taken through six of the largest
Berlin hospitals and found there many
of the wounded from the recent cam
paign against Warsaw and Ivangorod.
These men had had a particularly try
ing experience. Many of them, wound
ed before Ivangorod for example, had
been transported in wagons for two
days before reaching the Russian rail
roads and had been another two to
four days en route over the Russian
railroads before reaching the German
railroads at Kattowitz, Silesia.
Recovering.
Thence to Berlin the transport had
gone forward smoothly and comfort
ably in the wonderful German hospi
tal trains to Berlin but the first part
of the journey had been a protracted
stage of pain and discomfort. Never
theless, they were practically all -n
good spirits and in most cases making
rapid progress toward recovery.
Wounded lodged in the Royal Con
servatory of Music, now converted into
a model hospital, have in their wards
pictures by Van Dyke, Rubens. Velas
quez and other old masters, the works
in the school gallery having been dis
tributed among the various rooms. In
the School of Applied Arts, now also
a hospital, the wounded had before
them for study beautiful porcelain,
enameled curios and tapestries. In one
of the officers' casinos, now convert
cd into a hospital, another large col
lection of pictures of military subjects
confronted them on the walls.
Field Hospitals.
Field hospitals are erected quickly.
A visit was paid to a new “barrack
hospital” composed of wooden, trans
portable barracks, each holding thirty
men. In a few days this hospital to
hold 1,200 had sprung up on Tempel
hoft-r Field, hot and cold water had
been installed, heating service pro
vided, a thoroughly modern operating
room equipped and it was figured that
in four days, if necessary, the entire,
hospital could be taken to pieces and
placed on automobiles ready for ship
ment to any place required.
Uittle is said in the German papers
about sickness in the army. There has
been considerable enteric trouble but
this is disappearing with the advent
of cold weather. The entire army in
the west had been vaccinated against
typhoid, the men assigned to service
in the east have in addition to ba
inoculated against cholera. Pneumo
nia, it is said, is comparatively not
a danger since the men in the trenches
are warmly clad but other diseases of
the respiratory system are quite fre
quent. Overstrain of the heart is also
a frequent cause of men being invalid
ed home or sent to hospitals, many
reservists and volunteers breaking
down under the strain of hard cam
paigning.
GERMANS BRING DOWN AN
ANNOYING FRENCH
MACHINE
Berlin.—A small French aeroplane—
the “Baurnschreeh,” which translated
means "the peasants’ terror,” is no
more and great is the rejoicing there
at among one wing of the German
army which it had disturbed much.
For a long period, every evening
about 3 o'clock, the machine used to
appear over the trenches south of
Kheims, drop just one bomb, which
never failed to scatter death and de
struction, and then disappear. Ger
man aviators ascended repeatedly and
made futil ■ attempts to bring down
the dangerous visitor. It w’as evident
that the machine carried a murderous
machine gun and that its occupants
were no mean marksmen.
Every aviator who pursued the
"Bauernschreck” sought eagerly the
honor of bringing it down, and as a
result of bravery shown in pursuit
one non-commissioned officer won an
iron cross hut lost his life. After be
ing shot through the hips by a gun
in the French machine, he continued
to pilot a German aeroplane for nine
miles.
Finally a reserve artillery captain
evolved a new base for a howitzer, so
constructed as to permit great eleva
tion and rapid change of objective and
the second shot from it finished the
Bauernschreck. Both occupants were
charred and mutilated beyond recog
nition. It could only be told that one
was an officer and tbe other a civil
ian. -
FEW FRENCH’SOLDIERS
HOLD OFF LARGE BODY
OF GERMAN; ESCAPE
Havre. —How a single company of
French infantry, told off to cover a
retreat, withstood a large force of
Germans for several hours during a
battle at night and then escaped
through a ruse la related by a wound
ed officer.
Tile entire division had been ordered
to withdraw during a sharp counter
attack at Charleroi. One company
was selected to check the German ad
vance This lot fpil to the company
of which the officer, now in a local
hospital, hart command
It was 8 o'clock in the evening wh»n
the company was ordered out. The
men ran throdgh a heavy rifle and
machine gun fire to a farmhouse, in
which they barricaded themselves,
stuffing the walls. Every time Vhe
enemy tried to approach, they were
stopped by volley firing. This lasted
neoriy three hours.
Twenty times the enemy's bugles
announced a bayonet charge, and
twenty times the rush was repulged.,
E. H. Gary Has Relief Plan
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E. H. GARY.
New York. —Elbert H. Gary, chair
man of the board of directors of the
United States Steel Corporation, has
evolved a plan for the relief of unem
ployed workers and destitute families
in New York. The plan provides for
the division of the Mayor’s Committee
on Unemployment into three divisions
—one on evictions, another on immed
iate relief and a thrid on ways and
means of co-operation with heads of
industries to obtain employment for
those who need it. Mayor Mitchell
expects Judge Gary’s plan to prove a
success in bringing about a beneficial
improvement for those who have been
left destitute as a result of thelet-up
in business caused by the war.
But the defenders began to run short
of ammunition.
The vigor of the German attacks
was now broken. This the French
commander quickly took advantage of.
He ordered a bugler to sound the
French charge. The Germans stoppei
firing and braced themselves to meet
it. During the pause, so as not to
break the still of the night with sus
picious sounds, the French stole out
of the house, man by man, and ran
for the rear. When the Germans, tir
ing of the strain of awaiting the at
tack, took the house by a rush, they
found in it nothing but empty shells.
UNMISTAKABLE SIGNALS
MADE TO THIS JURYMAN
Chicago,—A sensational incident
marked the resting of the defense in
the case of Joseph Fish, millionaire
fire insurance adjuster, charged with
rson, when Assistant State’s Attorney
Johnson reported to Judge O’Connor
that an attempt was made yesterday
to influence Edward T. Malloy, a juror,
Johnson stated that a man in court by
unmistakable signals communicated to
Malloy. Malloy replied to the signals,
Johnson stated, and added that the
spectator in the alleged plot was a
friend of Fish’s. The signals given by
Malloy, Johnson said, evidently bore
on the present standing of the jury and
indicated that at least four men would
stand out for acquittal.
Judge O'Connor said lie had not de
termined what he planned to do about
the charge.
TAX EQUALIZATION LAW
WORKS WELL FOR GEORGIA
Atlanta, Ga.—The great value to
Georgia of the tax equalization law so
urged by Governor Slaton and which
has been in operation n. year or more
is clearly shown in figures given out by
Tpx Commissioner John C. Hart. The
"irprislng fact that the state has col
lected half a million dollars by an out
lay of only $4,496.78 is shown in the
report.
Judge Hart, in reply to a letter from
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May This Christmas Bring You More of Joy and Contentment Than Have
Ever Been Yours on Any Day Before.
May This be Your Merriest Christmas, and Accept Our Kindest Appreciation
For so Generously Remembering Us in Your Gift Selections.
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a friend, showed that tlie total expense
of his office had been $4,496.78, in
cluding his own salary, and that the
increase in property values through the
workings of the tax equalization law
had been eighty-four million dollars,
which had never shown on the digest
before. Through this increase Gov
ernor Platon was enabled to reduce the
tax rate from five to four and one
half mills.
The agitation against the tax equali
zation law which cut so much figure
In the past state campaign seems to
have been forgotten, and there are gen
eral expressions of approval of the
workings of the act.
SKILL OF THEU. S. RED
CROSS DOCTORS PRAISED
Washington, D. C.—Words of praise
for surgeons and Red Cross nurses who
were sent throughout the European
war theatres by the American Red
Cross Society continue to reach head
quarters here, A letter commending the
work of tlie two American hospital
units, consisting of six surgeons and
24 nurses stationed at Pan, France
written by Mrs. F. Deonard Brown, wife
of an English doctor in Pau, was re
eeived today.
“The work of the American doctors
and nurses Is beyond praise," says Mrs.
Brown. “So many speak to me of tho
skill and tenderness of the surgeons
and the devotion of the nurses who are
like mothers to the wounded. We In
deed owe a debt of gratitude to the
American Red Cross."
FUNERAL SERVICES FOR
LATE U. S. SENATOR WEST
Valdosta, Ga.—Owing to a misunder
standing as to the time, Governor Sla
ton was not present at the funeral
services of the late Ex-Senator W. S.
West here yesterday afternoon. The
services were conducted at the family
residence by the Rev. Allen Wilson, D.
D., pastor of the First Christian church.
WAITING FOR SANTA.
Atlanta, Ga.—Uttle Nat DeJarnette,
aged three, lives with his parents at a
local hotel. East night he disappeared
and neither the hotel clerks, the night
watchman nor the assembled guests
could locate him
Finally Mrs. DeJarnette went into
an empty room where there is a big
fireplace and sat down to weep. Site
beard a funny noise and looked up the
chimney. There was the missing
youngster, clinging to the sides of the
chimney and an inch deep in soot.
“What are you doing up there?” she
asked.
"I’m waiting for Santa Claus,” said
little Nat. "Do you reckon lie is
coming soon? My hands and tegs are
tired.’
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