STARTLING REVELATIONS.
TREATMENT OF FRENCH SOLDIERS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, PARIS, February 24.
The Chamber of Deputies has appointed a Hygiene Committee to inquire into the prevalence of diseases in the army. The War Office admitted that 37,531 men were taken to tho hospital in six weeks. • .
Startling revelations were made during tho debate in regard to tho shortage of clothing and boots, and overcrowding. A contractor at Lunevillo failed to supply filters, and in order to make the water supply innocuous poured eau-de-javel, a bleaching essence, into the cistern with ruinous effects on the recruits' stomachs. -'."'■'' •, >~~
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16485, 26 February 1914, Page 7
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96STARTLING REVELATIONS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16485, 26 February 1914, Page 7
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