A MEDICO’S LETTER.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 30, 6 February 1915, Page 6

A MEDICO’S LETTER.

The Rondon correspondent of tho Otago Daily Times writes,, us follows under date December Btli: —On November 23, Dr. A. A. Martin .vim* to the High Commissioner, who has allowed me to make some extracts wlych will bV.pf interest in New Zealand:— F', : *

h“I ;see .that‘-New Zealand is to make a big elfortj and, if noccSsarv, pub -5t>;000 men in the field. They will all be wanted,.and, ? also, we want lets of heavy, guns. The Goi;man beats ps with bis artillery.

“I am now in France, on che Hel- - frontier. I was near 1 pres for 14 days. It was a'zone of hell-ftee for a. time... The .weather, is intensely cold—frozen snow and ice; many of our. m^n -are getting frost bite. l.teg in water for days m trbhchtj* tins awful cold taxes, the eudur.yire of the hardiest. 1 was for some, limb at Bethune, taking .the-wounded from the trenches, and was operating nay and night on a most serious mi of shell wounds and shrapnel wounds . >;t‘So very .sj^about.- Angus M‘Nab. Ho was an old university friend of mine, ddrfe a lot of splendid work omjpdcQrs pf the eyei; Cpt off '“igiiiJ -i so verjMDaiiy.

“Here the,, common topic of conversation.-; is; ijftb you know Sp-and-SqP W’ell, he’s dead,’ or ‘Well, he’s badly wounded ;uul gone to. the-base.’ All che same, we. are very cheery. • ?.r -‘T -dm sorry that Brigadier-general Dailies' had to leave. He did well with the Fourth Brigade, and would have liad command of' a division as Major-general if he had lasted out a : hit' longer. ;■ , “I met Carhery the other day. He ■Was with hfs ambulance, and is looking, fat and prosperous, but very muddy,, and badly wanted a shave. C'est Ta'lGuerre." j “Mv wife is vyith her mother, m r Devonshire. She-lately lost her bro- [ titer. who was a medical officer in S South. West Africa.”