M. AULD REEKIE.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20489, 7 March 1932, Page 4

M. AULD REEKIE.

# Sir James Carrie, in opening a health exhibition in connexion with Edinburgh Royal Infirmary extension scheme recently,, revealed secrets of a war hospital which he ran in France. It was in a chateau near Verdun, he said, and owed its existence to his "lamentable weakness for children and old ladies.!' He continued: > "My hospital was. one for French children wounded by guns., I started with eight.beds, but in two or three months we had a hundred,, althougn I dare say some of you would not have called them beds. "When the hospital was at its fullest a Zeppelin fell into the grounds. "The children were *ery terrified at first, but someone fiad the happy thought of giving them the equivalent in money of threepence each. Xnen they all danced and sang with glee, and with the awful sarcasm of early years they called their threepences 'the tears of William.' , "They were dreadfully sharp little children. They did things none of your children would have done. When they were playing and nurses were in the offing with their thermometers they used to stop and hold their breath so tli fit their temperatures should not go UP "1 also taught them to play cricket with a ball of lint taken from the surand with a hat which had been a crutch. , ' . .. "They called me Monsieur Aula Reekie."