LETTER FROM DR. ADAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1747, 14 August 1917, Page 3

LETTER FROM DR. ADAMS.

A resident of the district, who has received a letter from Dr. G. J. Adams, late of Foxlon, has handed its seme extracts from same, which will be of interest to readers. Dr, Adam,-. was in England when war was declared, and immediately offered Ids services as a doctor at Hie froiil, where he served fourteen months in the front lines. He then returned to England for duty in the hospitals, and the letter just received, which was will ten f rom France under date Juno 2nd, .1.017, refers ti> bis movements since then. Hr. Adams says; “Just before last '?\inas, whilst at Rippen as bacteriologist, I jumped ill, the opportunity of becoming operating surgeon to the Rippen Hospital. I was afterwards posted to France as a sjteeialist, and am at present .stationed at the 20th General Hospital —a very huge hospital, which can accommodate about 2,000 patients—as bacteriologist. We are on the coast, line, and quite dose to us is a French watering town. As far as I can ii'idcrsiami. I shall most likely in* here until tin* cud of the war. We can just hear the Imoming of the big guns in tin* firing line from (be neighbouring bills at night, and can set* the (lashes although we arc alimit 10 miles a,way from Hu* lines. The only excitement we have hen* is an occasional visil from a Boche aeroplane—about once a week —but they have not yet attempted to bomb ns. This place is our largest hospital cenlre, and has dozens of hospitals and beds for thousands of wounded, and we are constantly having hospital (rains in and out. Furthermore, if is u base for all Hie troops on tin* northern half section of Ihe British line. Thus we have numerous drafts in and out, and one is constantly coming in contact with old friends. When coming up (he line 1 casually humped up against Major Robinson, of Palmerston North, going up with the New Zealand Brigade. There is also a New Zealand depot here, ami I have met several New Zealanders from time to time.”