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German doctors and medical professors during the war, says the Daily Mail, per formed on British wounded prisonera experimental operations of a peculiar wanton and heartless character. To that opinion more than one British medical officer has come, after working on cases of "inen who have recently been sent home Trom Germany,
· ANYTHING THAT'S UGLY ISN'T
TRUE."
"Sequels are never as good as their fore runners. There is, at any rate, a pre- judice to that effect. That delicate and inimitable artist Maurice Maeterlinck bas broken the convention in his com panion play to The Blue Bird, that miracle of happy mysticism which de lighted the whole world. The Betro
Blau Bird Chooses (Methuen, ss, net) has been worth wait- thal: or, The
Some of the things the terman medical men have done to our poor fellows," said a medical other in Fulhaming for. It is all a wonder and a calm military hospital, the most hardened delight. experimenter would not have been so use lessly and inhumanly cruel is to have tried on a dog or other dumb animal."
Men who base been sent back London hospitals from Germany lately bare in several instances been helpless victims of malpractice so apparent and indisputable that even the most lenient medical observer could not attribute. the shocking state of some of the men to negligence or ignorance on the part of the Hun doctors."
All children, grown-up and little, will. welcome mest of their old friends in M. Maeterlinck's new masterpiece, and will freal ones. Tylty is now sixteen, and Lo delighted to be introduced to some the fairy Berylune thinks it is high time that he selected a mate for life. Tyltyl is much embarrassed, but the fairy is very
peremptory with him and summons tb. his room at night-be has scarcely time to pull his Sunday breeches on by means of the fairy sapphire ring, sis village beauties Milette, Belline, Roselle, Aimette, Jalliae, and Rosarele. Tylnyl is afraid the girls will quarrel and awakens. his parents. Berylane assures him that
Three British soldiers who were wound ed prisoners in German hospitals have died in Fulham military hospital recent ly. The last case of a repatriated he is now ip a sphere in which men and soldier, brought home when it was too women do not quarrel or wish one an
All of that was merely late to save him from the Flun brutality other harm:
doesn't exist devį. that caused his death, a Privatende-believe, and
This is the whole philosophy of Cardar, of the Northants Regiment, who down." was said in the coroner's court to bave the fantasia-that people are living ic enlisted at 12 stone and to have come world of so-called dreams, all is good an artificial world of evil. In the real home weighing but 4 stone.
humour and good heart.
back:
A FIENDISH CASK.
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FAIRY BERYLUSE.
Tylty is too puzzled by his embarrass,
"I can show you instances in this hospital. said a surgeon at Fulham,
where intentional neglect futilement of riches to make a choice of hij operations-an operation that never had beloved. He avows himself unable to a chance can be proven by the victims support a wife because he is penniless and the condition in which they were sent At Fairy, Berylune's direction be turns his sapphire ring from right to left, and enters the Cave of the Miser, who give A case of waaton experiment was him all the gold be wants. He the that of a sapper in the Royal" Engiacere proceeds to the Fairy's Palace and in named Roberts. He was wounded on the waiting room sees Cinderella s pump? March word last at Le Transley and laykin and glass slipper, Little Red Riding for some time in a shell-hole, unobserved. Hood's cake and bowl, Bluebeard's key There he unde the first dressing of a Hop-o'-my-Thumb' pebbles, and many wound in his wrist. Taken eventually to other fairy properties, and finally the Mons flospital. British doctors who were Blue Bird in his silver cage. fellow-prisoners amputated' his right The girls are "there, but they quarrel hand at, the wrist.
dreadfully. Everything seems shoddy and Even the moon-coloured and Subsequently the Gerinaus removed common. him to another hospital at Mons, where sun-coloured dresses look like old spiders webs. Tylty is again comforted by a German medical professor tried experi merts on Roberts' arm. The German slit Berylane, who tells him, "When you see the stump and tried to make the two ends what you do sec, you see nothing at all Anything that's ugly isn't true of the bone of the forearm into two
never has been true, and never will be." fingers of weird and terrible appearance. As a matter of fact, Tylty is responsible This not proving successful-which was for the return of the unreal world-the natural, considering the muscles that govern the lower and upper arma piece world we think we live in. He has for of Aceh was cut from Roberts' abdomen gotten his talisman, and an attempt made to graft it on to the mutilated stump so ax form a sort of third finger. This bit of desh contain ing neither bone nor muscle, the oP tion was, as might have been expected, a
absolute failure.
Roberts has been sent home in very bad shape, and what might have been a useful stump of his right forearm has been rendered aseless by German expert ments.
Pte. Brown, of the East Yorkshire Regiment, is another innate of this hoppital who is a sample of German malpractice. He was wounded and taken prisoner in September last whes in front of his line cutting German wire. A piece
make choice of a wife without consulting Tyltyl is now informed that he cannot his ancestors and his descendants. the Abode of the Ancestors he sees the three representative members of his family, who have lived remote centuries before, and in the Abode of the Childrep he sees his own great-great-grandchild ren; and the youngest of his own little children, still unborn, makes choice of her own mother, who is not one of the ix aspirants.
A COMEDY "OK" KISBES.""
In the morning when Tyityl awakera he is still dresed in his best clothes. Daddy Tyt and Aluminy Ty are expect ing a visit. An old friend comes in with
of shrapnel entered his left thigh and very pretty young girl. Her name is broke the large bone of the leg. Reach ing Tourcoing, an operation was per- formed by a German surgeon.
Fancy
Joy ylty gave her bis woudernul Blue Bird when she was a child. She is the mother who was selected by the youngest When the femur, or large bone of of the children in the real world (which the leg, has been broken, as Brown's bad we ought to live in) Tylyl and Jay berd weights must be put on the leg for kiss and all_i8_meli_______ otherwise the muscles would persistently There is one very humorous figure draw the lower piece of the bone upwards in the book-that's Destiny. and force the upper piece outwards. This Maeterlinck making fun of destiny! We continual upward pall of the muscle only get a glimpse of the Blue Bird, and wvuld, unless weights were applied, draw Myty! just trips along the stage once. the upper piece of bone outward until it In The Betrothal "M. Marterlinck has assumed a position almost at right angles done a wonderful thing. He has given to its normal position: 'in other words, as a philosophy of eternal life enshrined. it would be horizontal instead of per
in an exquisite comedy of kises.—Ex. pendicular.
DELIBERATE LEG-SHORTENING.
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says photograph, of bis leg showed the bore at the point of fracture at an acute angle like the bone in Brown's leg
Two weeks after the operation Brown from pulling the bone out of place. was removed to another German bospitals then too late. The contracting where all weights were removed from the muscles had drawn the, bone so much out wounded leg and a metal and wire splint of place that Slevin's leg was "inches was put on. The released muscles shorter than it should have been. mediately began to pull the upper piece of the fractured bone out of place. Day by day the bone was drawn upwards, and day by day Brown's leg shortened.
That this way seen and known by the weights from Brown's leg and of not The malpractice of removing the German doctors was shown by the fact immediately applying them to Slovin's that they daily bent the metal splint on the leg to At the shortening limb. must have been due to one of two Abscesses formed and repeated operations authority wilfully removed the weights things Either the German-- medical followed. When Brown was repatriated and brought to this hospital en 27th from Brown's leg or failed to apply thear December his wound was in a very septic these men permanent cripples; or some to Slevin's leg with the idea of making condition and his wounded leg was sort of experiment was being tried inches shorter than the other leg.
connection with the metal and
ID
An X-rays picture of the bone showed wire splint on Brown's leg, which the the upper part sticking out horizontally doctors changed every day, or in connec from the pelvic bone and the lower portion with the plaster of Paris treatment tion leading down at an acute angle from of Slevia's leg. the upper one. Subsequently the bone had to be cut and the upper part pulled down. This was done, and thereby si in length added to the wounded leg Brown had been in such dreadful condi- tion for so long that whether or not he will recover is hard to say,
Whether from a medical standpoint one considers these things wanton ex periment or careless malpractice, a doctor who has worked on these case returned from German hospitals cannot hut wish that the public could see some A very similar case was that of Pte understand that it has been applied to of the results of German surgery and Blevin, of the Connaught Rangers, an- other inmate of Fulham military hos thousands of our wounded men who have pital. He was wounded on October 10th died in German hospitals, whose experi Last and lay in the open for 14 hours caces and suffering we will never know." in front of Le Cateau. - A shell bad frac; G -YU BLAVERY' ÏN ÇOAL MINES. tured the large bone in his thigh, much Pte. Standing, Tank Corps, as Brown's bone and been fractured Chertsey, who was buried at Brookwood, Blevin. was treated in the German roached Chertsey three weeks ago suffer
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Slevin resched the hospital at Cologne that the cast was taken from his leg and weights were applied to keep the muscles (Continued as foot of next column.)
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