N.Z. DOCTOR WITH PARTISANS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 200, 22 May 1944, Page 6

N.Z. DOCTOR WITH PARTISANS

Hospital In Mountains

LONDON, May 20. Reuter’s correspondent from the Yugoslav mountains says that a New Zealand major from the Royal Army Medicai Corps, with a Scots orderly sergeant and 15 Yugoslav women, runs an Allied hospital for the Partisans in the wild mountains.' „ There are two cabins hidden in a pine forest, holding 150 beds, and a third cabiu is being built. German .planes have been vainly trying to pinpoint tfie hospital. They are aware of its existence from Chetnik spies, but it is invisible from 50 yards away. 4he major said the first problem was hot water for operations. He is afraid to light fiw>« except at. dawn, when the flam.-s and smoke cannot be seen. The second difficulty is food, for which the hospital must rely on the local farms. The major in the wards went from, bed to bed talking to the wounded in his own brand of breezy Yugoslav. It. was obuous that all worship him; every face lit up when he entered. .