GREATEST SOLDIERS IN THE WORLD.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 175, 19 May 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

GREATEST SOLDIERS IN THE WORLD.

Dr. Eugene T. Hurd, of Seattle, ■Washington, until recently the only American surgeon at the front with the Russian Army, has performed more than 3000 surgical operations since the war began, most of them within sound of the guns at the front. The llussan wounded have implicit confidence in him, and believe that once in the harnh of the American theirwounds will be healed . Dr. Hurd reciprocates their admiration, and asserts that the Russ.an soldier is the best fighting man in the world.

Dr. Hurd has had several narrow escapes from death, injury, or capture, as has favourite post of duty is a hospital tent, pitched within a mile of the front trenches, and in advance of the positions of the Russian heavy artillery. Thus he has preserved many of th? wounded from infections which delay in rendering first aid brings on. Recently Dr. Hurd was promoted to he a colonel. He is Surgeon in Chief of the Twenty-ninth Regiment of the Siberian Corps, which was fitted out by wealthy families of Grodno when the war began. He is a big man physically, too—6ft. 3in. in his stockings, weighing 225!b., and of prodigious strength.