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OZONE FOR WOUNDS
THE BENEFICENT WORK OF MILLWALL LABORATORY
BY THE DAILY MALL MEDICAL Z
CORRESPONDESTRU
© HIS MAJESTY IN GERMAN TRENCHES
INSPIRITING ROYAL MESSAGE.
I RETURN HOME MORE THAN EVER
GAZ PROUD OF YOU."
THE KING AT THE FRONT
WARM WELCOME FROM THE
ARMY
Describing the walk which the King spent in Francs last month, Mr. W Bench Thomas writes:
"They evidently thought they were going to make a long stay," said the King, and they know how to take care of themselves I am afraid my... soldiers cannot complain that they have been pampered. But I suppose it was only the officers who had these luxurious. things." "Oh, no, air & general, ex- plained the men had them too.
They were very lucky,'' observed bis.
Majesty. They are not faring so well
The King has omitted so aspect of the war. Ho has stood between our guns now and the enemy, walked where the other day German soldiers crouched, and gone
*GE VIEW FROM A HILL.
The King paid another visit to the Of now and improved appliances and front last month The following is the methods of treatment many wonderful Genoral Order to the Army in France examples are to be seen at the which his Majesty sent to General Sir military hospitals through which I was Douglas Haig on his return: conducted one day, last week by Colonel OFFICERS, 'X.C.08., AND MEN,
Having completed his exploration of AS Woodwark, Assistant Deputy It has been a great pleasure and satis down to the caves built for their lasting Director of the Army Medical Services faction to me to be with my Armies durstay in France. He has visited the ruins the enemy trenches, the King proceeded | for the Loudon district,
ing the past week. I have been able to of ine buildings shattered by German to some high ground which on a lear At Queen Alexandra's Military Hos.udge for myself of their splendid condi- shells just before and just after his ar day would have commanded a fine pital I saw several patients undergoing tion for war and of the spirit of cheerful rival. He has watched a panorama of panorama of the whole field in which now healing treatment. Two of thou confidence which animates all ranks, battle from south to north, generally conflict is still being waged, da well as
united in loyal co-operation to their of my wounded in Chiefs and to one another from points within the range and not of portions we have captured from the September of last your and for ten Binee my last visit to the front there rare visitation of German shells. He has enemy. Mametz lay at his feet-only months had been treated in the customary has been almost uninterrupted fighting on passed on the road, in the accidental half a mile away. Close ou the left, was way without any sign of healing. On parte our line. The offensive recently meetings of war, batteries, brigades, and Fricourt, while straight in front lay August 2nd they were brought to Mill begun has since been resolutely maintain divisions on the march; and been cheered Contalmaison Rud Pozieres. On the wall the bandages nero flung away, the sd by day and by night. I have had to the echo by English soldiers as startled right, looking north-east, he could dis- wounds were subid to repeated an opportunities of visiting some of the as they were pleased to know their King cern Montauban and the Trones Wood. plications of a stred of ozone, being scenes of the later desperate struggles, was among them. Again, he has formally Guillemont, which lies farther off was lightly covered with a loose layer of lint und of appreciating to a slight extent the reviewed our soldiers from overseas, blotted out by the haze. Pozieres at the in the intervals, and in four days bull ng demand made upon your courage, and splendid in the vigour of their manhood time was being vigorously shelled by the
enery, was in rapid progress physical endurance in order to assail and und hot from the battle.
This treatment is simplicity itself. capture positions prepared during the Oxygen passes from a reservoir into an past two years and stoutly defended to electri al machine which converts it into the last orone; the ozone flows out through a fine metal tube. The machine is wheeled close to the patient's bed, the wound in covered, and a strenin of the microbe killing czone Bows into the deepest ro cesses. No painful dragging off of bandages, po rebandaging of the limb to hurt and exhaust the patient. I saw here a soldier who had lost his right for, with a stump covered with ikin so healthy and hard that he could walk upon it, a surgical marvel
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HONGKONG
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Hongkong Obeersstory, Beptember 27th,
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FREEDOM FROM AGOSY,
The King examined the position" REWARDS ON THE FIELD
through his deer-stalker's telescope, He has bestowed rewards for the high which is a gift from the Queen, but con- work which has been done in immediate soldiers alike, and in the wards of cera the distant burst of the shells. I have realised not only the splendid est courage to French and English fessed that ho could only just dimly dis- touch with the enemy in the air, mider hospitals and stations for the wounded What is that one solitary bit of white- ground, as well as on the ground-but sympathised with those who had suffered grey wall I see in Mametz That, also the vast organisations behind the in limb for King and country and their said General Rawlinson, is nil fighting line, honourable alike to the world's peace. On a hill commanding that is left of Mametz. It is a bit of the genius of the initiators and to the heart fifty miles of battle front he has pledged wall of what was once a church. Of and hand of the workers. Everywhere the honour of the Empire to the high Contalmaison you can see nothing he there is proof that all, men and women ident of the war at the simple and cause it is level with the ground. are playing their part, and I rejoice to moving Sunday service of our National Oe returning the King had a delightful think their noble efforts are being heartily Church
and spontaneous send-off from the battle- seconded by all classes at home The great day for the King and for his field Hundreds of Tommies" with
The happy relations maintained by my Armics and those of our French Allies armies was that on which he visited the only a few officers, had gathered together. were equally noticeable between ing troops battlefields. His Majesty stood on ground In the midst of them was a battalion of What might be called the open-air and is inhabitants of the districts in wrested from the enemy on the memor the Northamptons with their little treatment of wounds has come to stay, which they are quartered, and from whom able 1st of July He was able to realise mascot-Joseph Lefevre a twenty-year- At the Herbert Hospital is a soldier they inve received a cordial welcome ever for himself the enormons dificulties they old Belgian boy, whom they have adopted had overcome before driving forth the and placed on the enrolled strength of with a had compound fracture of the leg. since their first arrival in Franco
Do not think that I and your fellow Kaiser's soldiers from elaborate and cun their regiment. Joseph is the son of ne The limb is not swathed in many yards funtrymen forget the heavy sacrifices ng positions. He could see the shells Belgian soldier, who fought for his coun of bandages ds was the custom, but lisich the Armies have made and the bursting around Poziores, which his try two years ago, and was wounded between sandbags to secure immobility bravery and endurancs they have dis troops had won and were holding against and taken prisoner while Joseph's and is covered only with a single layer playelf during the past two years of hit the desperate efforts of the enemy to mother, so the Northamptons say, was of lint. The lint is kept constantly watter conflict. These sacrifices have not dislodge them. He stood, too, on ground foully murdered by German troops; will an ant septic Bald (peroxide of been in vain, the urns of the Allies willwell within range of the enemy's guns, hydrogen), Surrounding the leg is o never be laid down until our cause has which search it almost daily with high large cage covered within abset of thiu triumphed
explosive shells, and if on this occasion musilo, s that the wound is continually
none. Was burled in his immediate refreshed by a free curent of a Ex
vicinity it was a pure accident, tremely rapid healing and freedoni from the agony of manipulation are the grent gains from, tais mudo el treatment.
I return home more than ever proud of you
May God guide you to Victory.
GEORGE R.1.
PRUSSIAN WORD OF HONOUR. AN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.
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The whirlpool bath is entirely a war invention, from which excellent results in cases of stiff joints have been obtained in Franc As I saw it at some of the military hospitals visited, it consists of a small oblong bath, filled with water. which is kept in continuous movement by a minature propeller revolved at a very high speed by means of an electric motor, A stiff arm or leg, hand or foot, plased in the bath and kept there for some time is much improved by the stimulus of the Tunning water.
BONE CARPENTLY.
Originally, Joseph was found by somo man of the Black Watch wandering round Ypres, and for good many months now he has been with tho | Northants men, who have put him in klaki and conferred upon him the rank of Inace corporal.
As a soldier observed to his chura, Lur if le Fritz only knew who was ere wouldn't he send his bloomin' The King approached the Northamp mistake his Majesty on to have found at last my youngest crumps (big shells) along and tons, who pushed little Joseph in front of them." I believe," said his Majesty, Accompanying his. batlefield were the Prince of Wales, soldier. How old are you, my hoy t General Sir Henry Rawlins, and Please, your Majesty said n A series of Notes exchanged between the other generals nud staff officers, in addi, burly private of the regiment, who State Department at Washington and the tion to Lord Stanfordium, Six Derek seemed to constitute hime lf the personál Berlin Foreign Office, published here to Keppel, Lieutenant Colonel Clive Wig guard of the mascot,ho don't under day (writes The Daily Telegraph's New ran, and Major Thompson. The King stand much English, though we're York correspondent on Aug. 17), disclose left his motor car at a point near our tercling in, bil ho speaks French." the fast that this country considers the old front line of trenches, and for nearly His Majesty accordingly interrogated word if himiour of Prussitud naval officers an hour and a half walked over ground Joseph in I both. Do you like being ? ay worthless Numerous officers inferned which was the contra area of confier at a soldier the King said Out, on the Gerzian
Cruisers Arnprinz the beginning of July. The position as Monsieur le Roi, replied the boy. Wilhelm and Prins hitel Briedrich, Mr. Marvellous examples of bene carpentry Lansing complains, broke their parole itxisted on the eve of our advance tax And do you think you will still liko are to be seen, such as the transference when allowed landing pririkges, and explained to him, and he traversed sen to be a soldier when you re grown of a large piece of bone from the log to some of the the United States know of our trenches which remained un-up "Ah, but yes, Sir, was the fill a gap in the arm bone or jawnow to be in the active service of Ger changed and over the parapets of which awer in French. I want to fight tho our-soldery leaped for the great advance Boches are getting on, said Trenen foot is being more or less Buc-At least ten officers of these cruisers Then he crossed the No Man's Land as the King; I see they have maile you a cessfully treated by massage, operation, have broken their word of honour, and in it was before the attack. To-day it is lance-corporal already. You will soon and other methods. I saw & soldier conesquence the United States has told furrowed deep at almost every yard with be general. The King expressed the vistim of this affection walking with a Germany that this Government had been shell-holes, while sandbags, barbed wire hope to the Northants men that they did Httle difficulty, but very well pleased forced to discontinue the custom of ne entanglements gnarled and twisted into not lead the boy into dangerous" areus. with himself; it was the first time he had cepting officers words of honour and all sorts of serpentine shapes-and the He's quite willing to go anywhere, put on busts for nine months otherwise to circumscribe the liberal incalculable débris of battle lie every your Majesty said one of the men. All sorts of joint injuries go to Ham- Brivileges they hitherto allowed them to where around. There are yet bigger but we don't let him. When we are în mersmith Hospital, and there, as well as enjoy holes on this distorted soil caused by the trenches we leave him with at other hospitula, is to be seen a collow-
The Prussian Forest the
Foreign Ofco replied mine explosions.
transport." tion of ingenious exercisers for restoring weakly that the commanders evidently It is a well-known locality, and as the As the King was entering his car a mobility. When the surgeon has done all had not sufficiently instructed the men King looked on it and surveyed the whole subaltern called for Three cheers for that he can the patient goes to the regarding the significance of the assurscene of devastation he said, It is the King The soldiers responded with masseurs and the exercisers. If his wrist ince" given by them. Moreover, the exwonderful how human beings could have a roar that drowned the guns. ** One for ik stiff he twists n bar with graduated pression ledge - dors not conform ab lived through it Walking through our the Queen some one cried, and only resistance; if he cannot fully close his funtely to the idea of words of hon- hand he grasps a thick bar and turns it, dur, and the persons who escaped evi old first-line trenches his Majesty obser the departure of the cais stopped the passing on to thinner and thinner bars gently, had not known that they were ed with a smile Now I will einab the cheering. Throughout his return journey as the hand improves the patient with freaking their word of honour. Ger- parapet. It is not so easy as it looks the King passed through miles of his de a stiff knee is put to excreise on any, however, acknowledged that the sir, one of the staff remarked, but theglited soldiers. At every village and stationary bicycle; others, according to men were in the wrong, but declared that Kug scrambled up und refused the help camp they turned out with guards of the nature and situation of the defect, one officer had returned to Germanying hand offered him by the Prince of odour and cheering was continuous,
The United States brusquely retorted Wales for BR His Majesty and the Prince of Wales practice rowing climbing ladders, pul that the asyra indiented that the Ger Hard by the spot at which his Majesty lunched with Sir Henry Rawlinson ut ling on weighted ropes; and with thrawan Naval Administration did not seem left our trenches there is a little mound Army Headquarters, where the Cum- curativo excroises is combined massage realise the serioussiess of the obliga of earth in the midst of a shell crater under-u Chief, Sir Douglas Haig, with electric treatment, and other re-
tions assumed by its naval representa with a plain wooden cross at the head of joined the party. Afterwards the King inedies.
tives Washington plainly stated that it it. He stooped down and read the inconferted decorations on a number of could not assume that the officers were scription, Here lies the body of an Victoria Cross on the breast of Private
Francis offers, besides pinning the, not caguisant of the principles of inter- unknown British soldier.” The King
TEN MILLION SERUM DOSES.
ntional law and they must know that saluted the grave" Some gallant fellow Arthur Berbert Procter, of the Liver- they were violating American neitrality is there the observed. What a pity pool Regiment, Territorial, Force.” (Pri- when, as the guests of this country, they he has not been identified!? It was ex vate Procter get two wounded men to imposed upon dis hospitality by breaking plained to him that the greatest care is cover under heavy fire,) their word of honour and disappearing on to identify evers voldier who falls
DERNBURG ON PEACE.
UNDERSTANDING WITH
ENGLAND.
What is being done by our greatest bacteriologists and chemists in the laboratories of the Royal Army Medical College to prevent war diseases, to cope with the enemy gos poisons and tear
SNEACE FROM FOZIERES. shells, etc., would take an article to it-
But when a human frame has been On his way back to the chateau which self to describe. Here the vaccines are
shattered by shell fire and even the iden has been his humo during his sojourn made to secure the men against typhoid
tification disc cannot be found the name Francs the King had a very interest fever, which used to be more fatal in war
less mound is the only alternative,
ing experience at the headquarters DË than the bayonet and the bullet com-
There was another gravo near at hand the Anzacs, To General Birdwood his wned; paratyphoid fever, so rare for
which the King noted, as on it luy a Majesty expressed his high appreciation merly, so common now in France; the
french helmet with a jagged bole in the of the magnificent work of the Aus cholera of Balonika and Egyptj pneu
The Hamburger Nachrichten writes centre. In this instance two soldiers tralians in the field. Thousands of monia, one of the soldier's worst trench
At present several unemployed Beread been killed by shelf splinters, which Anzues lined the route and cheered enemies in cold weather and other dis
taries of State and ex-Ambassadors are at in the case of one of them had pierced vociferously. We came here,” said eases common in camp and trench work in the interest of an understand the helmet His Majesty read the in- one of them to m"to fight for the About ten million doses of these ing with England. One of them is Herr scription on the memorial cross LLP King and the freedom of his Empire. vaccines have been sent out from Mill | Derthurg. From the Westphalias: Politi. Privates Goulder and Pennington, of the We never thought is would visit us in wall since the war began. Among theme News we learn that Herr Dernburg Border Regiment. Killed in action, France, but we're mighty well bucked up is a most valuable mixed vaccine which recently visited the Eastern theatre of July 1st 1916. Was the trench helmet now we've seen him
ye gives protection from both typhoid and war, and also went to Libau. Here he really valuable as a protection? he asked. the two forms of paratyphoid fover. Linade a speech before a large number of He was informed that it was especially This has been in use since January last. | people, including many officers, urging against attering shrapuel, but it could Quite new, since the war began, are the an understanding with England. Ho not resist a direct hit from a rifle, or measures taken for discovering whether said, inter alia; I can quite under machine-gun bullot, anyone who comes "u contset with sold- stand that German officers are curaged. The King walked through many yards ders is carrying the infection of spotted with England, but this will not belp us of, want were once German trenches, fever at the back of his nose, fornuch. I know the British thoroughly and from their parapeta be was able also although himself quite free from the They are not so bad. For economic ren to survey the effects of our netillery fire, disease, such a carrier might create a suns cecially, we must quickly restore He was greatly pleased at the way our left the trenches or what do duty for httim.fepidemic in a camp
good relations with Great Britain. We gunners had done their work. The evid trenches on the incredible battlefield. 10 3 3 Serum, too, for the cure of spotted must not irritate them now, but we
fever is here made, and by its use the Wod. 27 m
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A dramatic episode all the more so 10 that it was unrehearsed and quite unex - pected-was the meeting of the King ou the public road some distance beyond Anzac headquarters with a brigade of the Australiang which had just come out of the thick of the battle at Pozieren. Oficers and men were marching along the road in full kit, just as they had
by uh far-reaching demandse of it were palpable. In some in They bad had a victorious fight with the This time Herr Dernburg mistook his stances what once were quite deep enemy and were singing and whistling audience, because they expressed their entanglements had been almost flat gaily on the march back to their rest opinion in such a manner that Herr tened out. No shell could quite des camp. All of a sudden they were Dornburg rose and disappeared, troy the great dug-outs, and the King here now!" They were halted, and as the Herr Dernbling who has played a pro- went into one of them which was at least told The King is coming, boys; he'x raiment role in German banking circles, oft deep. I should not go right down, King passed slowly before them the en One of the greatest services rendered was in 1207 appointed Secretary of State sir, said one of the generals. Wo thusiasm was tremendous. It was an to the soldier by the scientists of Mill for the Colonies Tute was regarded as have not had time to clean them out yet, altogether informal review but a very Wall Laboratory is the invention of an distinct departure in German politics and they are not very wholesome real on, a review of mon hot with the mask which will effectually protect for owing to Herr Dernburg, being pre quite agree with you," said his Majesty, sweat of such fighting as the world had from any poison gas the Germany choose eminently a business map. He retired The remains of what had once Bien a never dreamed, within sound of the to employ as well as from the effects from the Colonial Secretaryship in 1910. luxar ous iron bedstead with spring engines that gave that battle its terrible of tear shella.
Houter
mattress, lay in front of this dug-out supremacy – Daily Hou,