GERMANY

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 239, 18 March 1915, Page 5

GERMANY

VAST NUIVIBhRG OF WOUNDED. PJ iEJ >A .1! A Xll ;N INS U !'T ICI EXT. THE PSYCH*:LOGV Of THE SICKROOM. (Times and Sydney Sun .Ven ice».l Received March 17, 5.i)5 p.m. London, .March 17. i-'ic .limes correspondent, who has returned from Germany, says that despite. tile manifest preparations for iuo,t contingencies Germany was not prepared for tile vast numbers of Wounded. Already 700, in)) had been tieated, ..nd every available public building, including the Royal villas, hail been utilised, lie visited a ro\fil residence where iron bedsteads were crowded against lhegiv.it mirrors of a ballroom resplendent, in gold mountings and Ymetian chandelier-. \\ 011-houu.l-, had been extensively used in finding the wounded, who instinctively seek .-heltcr. Red ('restrains of fiftv carriages, with sixteen beds in each, (rave! at a mail's pace. A doctor. discn--ing p-\chology in the sickroom, declared: "An Iron Cross man never dies if hj,. can po-silily licio it." The nurses are pretty girls, in neat costumes. giving an :\ir of coquetry, which is deemed helpful 'to i'.le patient-. The .1" atli rat,, is less than two per cent.. 1 ml sixlv per c nt. of the early wounded have rejoined the ran!;-. The K'.i--iat: siini-iio-' d speed', builet is con-iihi'ed the most humane, gangrene ■ a I ter it. being Uniost unknown. Shrapnel cause- the greatest lacerations. Wounded prisoners are treated in tlreary hospitals. Tliey .know they are not wanted, the cheerful atmosphere of ;he. other hospitals being painfully wanting. All the nurses are males, and the patient feels the want of a nnr.-e's hand. When a prisoner dies he is buried with military honors. Upon the coffin is a ribbon inscribe.l "To a brave warrior." A. wooden cross of identification and :) wreath are nlaced above the grave, and 1 volley fired, exactly) the same cere.liony as at the burial of German-'. BRITAIN DEFENDED. BY GERMAN PROFESSOR. Amsterdam, March 10. Hei'r Lis-auer is touring Germany declaiming the "Ilynin of ilate. ' Dr. Lindane!', in a pamphlet published in Vienna, says that the allegation that England desired a world war is not iroved. He cites a Serb's "f crises settled owing .to Britain's efforts, and juotes Herr von Bcthmann Holweg's rc'Ognition of this. Tho-e acquainted ivith the English will nevei .believe that Jiev would become criminal against themselves or humanity. The Vorwacris says the pamphlet is worthv of attention because Dr. Linlauer approves the Austro-German dandpoint in the war. EVEN THE CHILDREN HELP. PENNIES FOR THE WAR FUND. GERMAN CASUALTIES HEAVY. Amsterdam, March l(i. The Government has circularised the schools urging children to devote all :heir savings to the war loan. The Reran scholars are urncd to raise nine milion marks ( .Cdoli.OOui. Copenhagen. March 10. The last, eight Prussian lists show !3.btJ casualties, including c.evcn airnen killed.