TME NAMAU l>0«T:, PIICePORT, N. Y^ THURSDAY. FEB. 11 1«1S
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LOSE Tffilfl SPEECH
Many Soldiers in Hospitals Un¬ able to Talk.
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Men Recovering From Severe Wounds Must Be Taught to Talk as Chil¬ dren—Can't Frame Words— Physicians Explain Work.
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rttnited I'T'-yp. Slnff ('orr'sponii-nl.) Laon, FraQcc.—Today I saw men being taught to talk again. In the "human repair shops," the great Gor¬ man field hoBpitals, these men were learning anew thf> use of brains, tongue, hands and fer!t. They bad re¬ ceived their baptism of fire. Bullet, shrapnel, broken shell, all had done their work. And now medical science was doing its utmost to restore the victims to partial normality.
This is the third time that Laon has been in possession of the Germans, flrat In 1814 and again in 1870, but thia time only was the city taken with¬ out fearful bloodshed. The main hofl- pltal is improvised, a large roomy school bnildlng. well lighted and aired. In front is a large bronze monument erected to three young Frenchmen— francs-tlreurs—executed by the Ger¬ mans Iq 1870 for sniping. Singularly enough this monument is unscathed.
Professor Brockerine4mer, tn charge, and Doctor Luetkenmueller, chief sur¬ geon, explained tho work. They care* for 2,100 severe cases, but the light wounded arc given first aid treatment and sent back to the home bases, sa thia is too close to the actual front to permit keeping any wounded that can be moved. More than a score of cases, French and German alike, where trephining operations had been nec- cessary, were shown. It was a singu¬ lar picture. Through the windows came tho deep, low bass note of dis¬ tant guns killing, smashing, tearing, maiming the human "teuplns." Here they were being patched up. Nurses sat by bedsides of friend and foe alike, bathing fevered brows and teaching pale-faced bearded men to speak the most simjile words, telling them the names of objects and putting words together into sentences.
"What is this?" asked Profosswr BrfK'kenlK'iiiKT, holding a pencil be¬ fore a bi'ai(l<'(l warrior from whose skull he had cut a splinter of steel. The lips troraMed. Then camo the feeble answer: "Pencil."
I held out a cigarette and asked what it was. Tha man's lipa moved and a look came ou his face which seemed to say that he knew what it was but couldn't say. Then Professor Bockenheiincr came to the rescue. "What do we do with this?" he asked. An apparent trenieiidou.s mental effort and (hen the reply: "Smoke."
"Correct," said the professor; "now what is It?" This lime the brain and tongue worked and tho answer was correct.
"Hours have to bo spent by the nurses teaching these men all over again," explained the professor. "It requires unending patience and per¬ severance."
Many cases of plastic .surgery were shown. Men with most of their faces smashed away were being brought back to life with parts of their bodies being grafted on to cover tlie terrible gai)itig hnles. Many would be much better dead, but the doctors feel it is their duty to save all they can.
"We do uot ask tho wounded whether they want to live or dio," explained Professor liockenheimer.
At the main French hospital Profes¬ sor Maiiasst^ of Stuttgart was in charge. Here, too, nurses were teaeh- inK men to talk again and terrible wrecks of humanity were being patched up.
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They Are Filled With Sand and Grav¬ el and Make a Rolling Bar¬ ricade.
Berlin.—Hungarian troops fighting in Servia have sprung tho latest sur¬ prise of the European war. They had to face exasperating conditions in ro^'-y mountains and fortified fields. Finally llie tr(X)i)3 took beer barrels, tilled them with sand and gravel and rolled them ahead. Wlum in the as¬ signed position tbe "liaka" as Hunga¬ rian foldiers are called, would set the barrels cm end and then ftre above or between them. The device has re¬ duced the number of killed and haa rendered progress more rapid.
In , the Russian-Japanese war the Jap^ carried sand bags aa protection, as the bullets from machine guns and rifles will not penetrate these. The barrel is far sui>ericr and more easily bandied.
HERE'S REAL WAR WEDDING
First Actual Marriage Under Fire Oc¬ curs In French Lines Near Arras.
Paris.—Tho first marriage under fire has Just occurred near Arras. At miti- daj the bridegroom. Private Lenoir, emerged from the trenches, scraped the mud off hla clothing, washed up and marched with a couple of soldier comrades to the city ball, where he met the bride, a Parisian dressmaker, who had journeyed thither by special permit. Sheila fell thick In the vil¬ lage during the ceremony and the aiib- sequent mass. After the weddins breakfast Lenoir shouldered his rifle and teturned to the trenches. Tbe bride proceeded to Paris,
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