A MEDICO'S LETTER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 207, 9 February 1915, Page 6

A MEDICO'S LETTER.

Tito London correspondent of tlie Otago Daily Times writes as follows, under date December Bth:—On November 23, Dr A. A. Martin wrote to tne High Commissioner, who has allowed me to make some extracts which will be of interest in >iew Zealand: — rl see that New Zealand is going- to make a big ell'ort, and, if necessary, put .-)(!,(HID men in the field. They will all be wanted, and ,also, we want lots of heavy guns. The German beats us with his artillcrv.

"I am now in France, 011 the 'Bob gian frontier. 1 was near Ypres for 14 days. . It was a zone of shell-fire for a time. The weather is intensely cold —frozen snow and ice; many of our nun are getting frost bite. Standing in water for days in trenches this awful cold taxes the endurance of the hardiest. I was for some time at Bethune, taking the wounded, from tlie trenches, and was operating day and night oil a most serious lot of shell wounds and shrapnel wounds,' "So very sad about Angus M'Xab. He was an old University friend of mine, and had done a lot of splendid work o n the ulcers of the eye. Cut oil' so verv earlV.

"Here the common topic of conversation is: 'Do you know So-and-So? Well he's dead,' or 'Well, he's badly wounded and gone to the base.' All the same we are very cheery. "I am sorry that brigadier-general Davies had to leave, lie did well witli the Fourth .Brigade, and would have had command of a division as .Majorgeneral if he had lasted out a bit longer.

"[ met Carbery the other day. lie was with his ambulance, and is looking fat and prosperous, but very muddy, and badly wanted a shave. C'cst ia Guerre.

'Ofy wife is with her mother in Devonshire. She lately lost her brother, who was a medical officer in SouthWest Africa.''