WANTED IN FRANCE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 89, 8 January 1918, Page 8

WANTED IN FRANCE

HOT SHOWERS FOR SOLDIERS. The Mayor (Mr. J. V. Luke) has received from tho Co-ordination des becours aus Combattants an appeal for help in supplying hot shower bath apparatus to the French troops, the appeal, which is signed _ by General Margueraii, one. of the vice-presidents of the society, states: "In order to maintain the vigour and health of t.ie troops, so jeopardised by tho uncomfortable life they lead in the trenches, we send gratuitously to each body ot troops, a hot water shower bath apparatus. For men who sleep on tho bare ground, without undressing, a hot shower bath taken on the spot is an appreciable comfort. It is refreshing and soothing, and it contributes to restore a spirit of good humour. The medical service is of tho opinion that it diminishes by 30 to J.) per cent, the number of sick evacuated by typhoid and .parasitical mlcctioiis and'for light wounds. But the war i* drafting (>"j shower baths scnt D to the front since 1914. nioro than two-thirds require replacing, some of them have been destroyed by artillery fire, others damaged during removed from one point to anowiei, others, again, are now worn out. Several millions of francs aro necessary to replace the baths, and an appeal for assistance is made to admirers of tho French soldiers.