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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 i - ij $ m ; ji : a (rfy, ■>/, 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 TO ALL AUGUSTA We extend our heartiest wishes for A Merry Christmas ™ H —■ AND ■— B> A Happy New Year The store will he closed tomorrow. We thank you for your patronage during the past year, and if our wishing carries any weight at all tomorrow will be the biggest and brightest Christmas you ever spent. ANDREWS BROS. CO. 870 Broad Street. Augusta, Ga. THE WISE DRY GOODS CO. i li/ishes to All Friends and Patrons in Augusta =-. ■ ■:-— — A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR V 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. THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA. GA. 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? 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